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 worry about what we have coming to us. Hundreds of years fighting to defend Europe from Islam and we just now open the doors. And it comes hand in hand with violence and persecution of Christians and loss of freedoms for all.
ReplyDeleteIf Philip Dewinter celebrating outright mockery of Islam with a billboard of his daughter in a bikini-burqa is the representative of the Christian culture then Belgium (and the rest of Europe) is in trouble.
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