Religion 30 Jul 2006 08:05 pm
Catholic Women Priests
I heard about this in an announcement in church this morning, then saw it in a Salon article. In Pittsburg, a number of women are going to be ordained as priests.
Declaring herself "present" (in Latin, ad sum), each of the 12will be ordained priests or deacons by women bishops — themselvessecretly ordained to the episcopacy by active Roman Catholic malebishops whose names will remain locked in a vault until they die.
There is an active movement, called womenpriests, who are risking excommunication (a big deal for Catholics) in order to move forward, and ask the question about why women can’t be ordained into the Catholic priesthood.
By their visibility and accessibility, a small band of women areforcing a confrontation. They are asking, Is sexism a sin? How does thechurch reconcile its teaching that women and men are created in God’simage, that once baptized, there is "no male or female" and "all areone in Christ Jesus," with its contention that women cannot representthe ultimate sacred or hold ultimate power through ordination becausethey are, literally, the wrong "substance"?
Anyway, this is going to be interesting to watch. And it is certainly an article worth reading.
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