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...
"The Humanist-Secular Association says"
ReplyDeleteAnd how is such an organization allowed to exist? Do Romanians so quickly forget the crimes of the Communists, that they now allow their foul offspring to attack and needle Romanian tradition? These mobs are foolish to an unbelievable degree to attack to the Holy Romanian Church.
I'd like to know what these "fees" are that the faithful are supposedly paying. AP probably does not know that it is customary to make donations on such occasions, but charging for them is canonically illegal - it's called simony.
ReplyDeleteAnd yet every church I attended or visited when I lived in Russia and Ukraine had prices ("treby") posted for baptisms, crownings, et cetera. I can't speak to Romania's situation, but it may well parallel that of the former USSR :-/.
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