Sr. Vassa: There's no ontological impediment to priestesses
Is the male-only priesthood a discipline or essential to the nature of being a priest? Sr. Vassa (again unflinchingly taking up a contentious topic by climbing up the ladder to the highest platform and then jumping into the deep end head first) dives right in and says there is no reason beyond personal preference to not have female clergy. You know, when people ask me about women in priesthood, they say, 'Sister, why can't women be priests?' And I say, 'Women CAN be priests. We don't WANT them to be priests.' Because you see, God can do anything, and the Church, by divine authority, uh, can do anything, but, the Church doesn't want to - and that's a legitimate reason. What I don't like is when we TRY to pretend that there are other reasons for this, because it's legitimate not to want something, and there are reasons not to want this - right? - but, we shouldn't pretent that there's some... reason, that, for example, the maleness...
Well, it's done. American Orthodoxy has finally arrived. Can we disband the OCL and all these other rabble rousers? Perhaps we can send Father John "Tex" Cobb with the big iron on his hip to them to deliver the message...
ReplyDeletewho is the bishop??????
ReplyDeleteThis is His Grace Bishop +VENEDYKT (Aleksiychuck), Ukrainian Catholic eparch of Chicago and all of the Western United States, including Texas.
ReplyDeleteA t-shirt?! I'm sure this is proscribed in the nomocanons.
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