The new "priest" certainly doesn't sound like the forgiving type. At least from what is said in the opening post I don't believe she is priest material.
Good point. Now we can see if the RCC is forgiving enough to accept her being a priest.
It seems to be all about her and not about God.
Well, perhaps just this little time in her life, but I really doubt she is or has been exclusive about the spook ALL the time.
As I said, most of these women seem to want power rather than do God's work.
And that would balance out the old geezers that desperately want to cling to the church's power rather than share it.
I would say that she didn't need to go through the Church to do God's work.
If she really wanted to be part of the Church than she would work inside the Church to change it, NOT going to the media and working against the Church.
lmao You really think that's never been tried before and that the old fuddy duddies in the Vatican would allow such a thing? Might as well tell veggieheads that ground beef makes good mashed spuds.
Honestly, to say 'I am drawn to serve god through mass.' is a far cry from essentially saying it's about showing the boys what's what.
Personally, I don't think female priests would be a bad idea. But, female priests who 'are tired of having octogenarian men tell us what's what'.... well... they're going to have an awfully hard time being Catholic priests. lol.
Personally, I think if the RCC ever loosens up, ANY female priests are going to have a hard time for a long time to come anyway.
I wholeheartedly agree with you. They need to concentrate on doing good and let the rest take care of itself.
Like those old geezers in the Vatican do? lol
Heck, it took almost 2000 years for the Church to admit that people outside the Church could go to heaven, things will change but at God's pace which in the Church seems to be extremely slowly.
You presume to know your god's pace? interesting. If the fairy tales are true, your god can work at lightning speeds.
Unfortunately, the Church believes that the "call" comes from the Church to the person, not from the person to the Church. That is, a man can go to the Church and say that they have a calling from God to be a priest but if the Church doesn't see the calling then there will be no ordination.
Right now the Church believes it has an obligation to follow Christ's example of only choosing men to be his disciples. Perhaps in the future, the Church's leaders will feel that they don't have to follow Christ's example in this matter and females will be called to the priesthood, however until the leaders overcome the belief that Christ gave them that example there will be no female priests.
That is the crux of the matter.
Perhaps it is the crux of the issue, but that means the RCC is injecting itself between your god and people, which seems to suggest that the bureaucracy judges itself to be qualified to be the go-between. I mean if your god calls someone, what grounds does the RCC have to consider itself judge and jury about whether your god meant to call the person or was just joking?
The issue with female ordination is that the Church currently believes that Christ chose only men as his disciples and as such, the Church has an obligation to continue this tradition. To do otherwise would go against Christ's example.
Then the RCC should not allow women that are like the women of 2000 years ago to be priests.
Until they can overcome that believe there will be no female ordinations in the Catholic Church.
I wouldn't hold my breath waiting for the Vatican to grab a bit of rationality any time soon.
Anyway, the RCC hasn't really progressed very far from the sexist attitudes it was rife with throughout the Middle Ages. That kinda puts it maybe a few inches of a pace ahead of Islam.
