I alert the readership to a blog post by a priest friend and commentator here, Fr. Martin Fox. You want to check into this.
I am mindful of a story I read at the National Catholic Register about how in the upcoming Synodo-Tautological Self-Licking Ice Cream Cone Synod (“walking together”), there is an attempt to ram through more blather on deaconettes.
Fr. Martin picks up on what is probably the real point of forcing women’s ordination.
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on ASK FATHER: Why do people today freak out about exorcisms?: “We know the demons fear exorcism. So it stands to reason that it tells you something when humans fear the…”
on ROME 24/4– Day 40 (-1): Final restaurant review… for now: “Fr. Z: Refrain from having an Espresso with your dessert tonight so you can get a good night sleep. I…”
on ROME 24/4– Day 39 & 40 (-2 & -1): An ACTION ITEM!: “Thank you Fr. Z. I hope your post will persuade priests to take this more seriously. It’s a terrible shame…”
on ROME 24/4– Day 40 (-1): Final restaurant review… for now: “JustaSinner says: East End Yes, I’ve had wonderful fish and chips there and elsewhere in London. However, I have to…”
on ROME 24/4– Day 40 (-1): Final restaurant review… for now: “The food looks great Father Z. I hope you can your apartment in Rome and spend more time there. Love…”
on ROME 24/4– Day 40 (-1): Final restaurant review… for now: “…might make for an interesting chess set – or at least some of the pieces.”
on ROME 24/4– Day 40 (-1): Final restaurant review… for now: “Medals: 3rd from right: https://barbiconi.it/en/106-merit-of-savoy The “tiles” are Pallae https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palla_(oggetto_liturgico) cardboard squares sewed in linen. They are put on the…”
on ROME 24/4– Day 40 (-1): Final restaurant review… for now: “The pilgrim shell at the top is for the Order of the Holy Sepulchre. The bookend medals are the Pro…”
on ROME 24/4– Day 40 (-1): Final restaurant review… for now: “Father Z., Are there German Clowns in Hell? [All of them, I suspect. Even the living ones. What must it…”
on ROME 24/4– Day 40 (-1): Final restaurant review… for now: “Thanks for the information on the Cod place. I’ll consider not going there again. Please do mention the names of…”
on ROME 24/4– Day 40 (-1): Final restaurant review… for now: “Sorry Father, but you have to go to London-East Side, really- for a proper fish n chip. Everywhere else is…” on ROME 24/4– Day 40 (-1): Final restaurant review… for now: “Medals: most right is https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benemerenti_medal most left is https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pro_Ecclesia_et_Pontifice 3rd from left is https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Order_of_St._Gregory_the_Great center is https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Order_of_St._Sylvester” on ROME 24/4– Day 40 (-1): Final restaurant review… for now: “acard: Considering what I had last night, Culver’s would be the better choice. No Culver’s here, however.”
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This is the lamest thing I’ve read lately. Nonetheless it’s interesting because Fr. Fox comes close to saying the silent part out loud: “When men want power it’s good. When women want power it’s very, very bad”.
More of the silent part: “God made women to serve below men, and that only.”
michele: I believe you have missed the point.
Must comment on Madam Piglosi. Her Daughter said in in an interview, My Mother can cut off your head before you even know it happened.
I am somewhat disappointed.
Mrs Pelosi may well exhibit porcine traits, but please let’s not descend to the level of the Left by name-calling. We are created in the image and likeness of God. It therefore rests on us to carry ourselves with a certain dignity and charity, regardless of the behaviour of the opposition. Please let’s just use the name God has given her, for all her (and her children’s) evil actions and thoroughly wicked behaviour and carriage.
Paradoxically, power is made to serve that which is below it. This holds true throughout the entirety of creation. And this is so because creation mirrors the Logos, the second person of the Divine Nature, who freely chooses to serve (He came to serve, not to be served) that which He creates.
A folly to the gentiles, and, apparently, to most of those who profess Christianity in the present age. Perhaps that’s we’ve killed all our kings and took up plundering our neighbors in the name of “social justice.”
It’s always been clear to me that the women most aggressively seeking to be priestesses were hungry for power. Pelosi confirms this.
And anyone, male or female, who seeks ecclesial rank in order to gain power is just a deeply disordered human being and would almost certainly be a very poor prelate.
I’ve had power in my working life and found it distasteful, if not repugnant. You have to make a myriad of decisions that impact the lives of others (and their families) and always live with the uncertainty of wondering if you made the right ones.
Was I too harsh on that person I demoted? Was I too lax with the person I promoted?
I’m far happier being a retired, powerless nobody.
The job of a priest, as Adam was commanded by God in Eden (and as was quoted repeatedly about Jewish priests in the OT), is “to tend and guard.” It’s a caretaker’s job, a soldier’s job. It’s a job full of rules, with very little in one’s own power. Say the black, do the red.
Eve was only commanded to be an ‘ezer to Adam — a help, an ally. Exactly how she carried that out was left to her. She only got rules after the Fall; and we still see throughout the Bible that the praised OT Jewish woman was valiant or enterprising, as in Proverbs 31 — a woman who took initiative and made plans for her household, and who took steps to save the day and to intercede, in times of trouble.
If anything, it is the position of a Catholic laywoman that is one of power, and it is the life of male clergy that is circumscribed.