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 recommend caution with any news story or website like the British website, Middle East Monitor. Newsguard.com, notes that the site fails to meet several basic standards of credibility and transparency such as: it fails to disclose it's ownership and financing, it presents editorials as news, its owner Daud Abdullah signed a public declaration of support for Hamas in 2009 which the British government lists as a terrorist organization since 2001, and the site promotes Jewish conspiracy theories. In 2011, a BBC News report referred to MiddleEastMonitor.com as a pro-Hamas publication in reference to its hosting of Raed Salah, an Israeli-Arab sheikh who has invoked conspiracy theories about Jewish complicity in the September 11, 2001 terror attacks.
ReplyDeleteIndeed, the current unsubstantiated story about Jews poisoning Archbishop Theodosios in Jerusalem is a perfect example of using anti-semitic tropes posing as news.
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Thank you for stating the truth. This man is a Jew-hater and sides with the terrorists.
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