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...
I would like to add another important kind of behavior that can lead to one's arrest: Yelling "fire" in a packed theater when there is in fact no fire.
ReplyDeleteOh boy. Oh boy oh boy oh boy. What exactly does it mean when somebody is 'offended'? What kind of hurt is perpetrated upon them? I can imagine the situation described in the video... somebody in the cafe glances up and sees the Bible verses on the screen, and then 'gets offended'. That's the gist of this, right? That the cafe owner isn't allowed to put Bible verses on his TV in his cafe, because a customer might be offended? And how that's kind of messed up? What kind of damage did the 'offense' cause? I don't understand this at all. People mainly get offended by all kinds of things which were never meant to cause offense in the first place. What is it with people and getting offended? Are our egos all so fragile that we can't experience another persons different opinions or beliefs without being somehow damaged by the experience? I just don't get it. Maybe I'm missing something.
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