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...
Kirill needs to reflect on the quality and sobriety of his official spokesmen:
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Triggstar, Father Dmitry Smirnov is not an official spokesman of Patriarch Kirill. Father Dmitry's opinions are not considered in any capacity to be Patriarch Kirill's opinions.
DeleteMaybe Fr. Dmitry looked at the statistics that show the IQ distribution for men has fatter tails on both ends? I don't know. He could have been more politic.
DeleteIn any event, I don't think societies that put prospective husbands and wives in head-to-head economic competition with each other are going to be the ones that show up for the future.
Anti-Gnostic, true. In addition the overturning of the natural hierarchy. Egalitarianism which is behind the so-called gender equity push always results in a reversal of hierarchy, not the utopian idea of equality by which it is sold.
DeleteStill hard to argue with the fact that if Christian men acted like true Christian men instead of petty tyrants there would be less agitation.
The Calvinist derived ideas of headship are disgusting