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 fact that these guys posted that just shows they don't know how twitter works....
ReplyDeleteIt also seems to show that they may not know how Orthodoxy works, either. In the end, these exchanges seem to boil down to one person being an Orthodox Christian and the other playing one at Fordham.
ReplyDelete"Did you see the 12+ round tweet contest between @FrJohnWhiteford and @atpapanik on sex, sodomy, and other Church stuff?"
ReplyDeleteNo. I don't follow the "micro blogs" such as twitter, Facebook, and the like because as near as I can tell they are just blogs reduced/limited to soundbites and corporate advertising/control. When I click on the two links above, just a bunch of random subjects and one sentence commentary come up - I could see no "contest" between Fr. John and Aristotle at all.
Anyone to the discussion that works?
I'm glad someone is opposing the fordham group. We certainly can't expect any bishops to do it. They're terribly busy doing selfies and visiting each other. Standing still with a pool stick can really take it out of a guy.
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