{"id":101,"date":"2015-01-19T12:27:00","date_gmt":"2015-01-19T18:27:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/admin.patheos.com\/blogs\/janetheactuary\/2015\/01\/women-and-the-priesthood-in-the-news.html"},"modified":"2015-02-24T21:41:52","modified_gmt":"2015-02-25T03:41:52","slug":"women-and-the-priesthood-in-the-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/janetheactuary\/2015\/01\/women-and-the-priesthood-in-the-news.html","title":{"rendered":"Women and the Priesthood: in the news"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<\/head>

Back in the fall, I wrote a longish post on women wanting to be priests<\/a>. \u00a0In brief, I criticized women \u201d\u00a0for whom the ordination was a \u2018thing\u2019 that [they] wanted and a career path [they] desired, rather than a call to serve in a community,\u201d but at the same time suggested that \u201cWhat is missing in the Catholic Church, and could be a real benefit, is a \u201cProtestant-style\u201d ordination \u2014 that is, a means of formally recognizing and commissioning both men and women who serve in these non-sacramental ministry roles.\u201d<\/p>\n

And the issue is back in the news, via an article from NBCnews.com: \u00a0\u201cWife, Grandma, Catholic Priest? Rebel Women Defy Church Ban<\/a>.\u201d \u00a0What\u2019s interesting is this: \u00a0the main NBC article describes these women as pioneering fighters of injustice, though it gives plenty of space to opponents of their actions. \u00a0At the same time, the author chooses her language carefully: \u00a0these are women who have \u201cbranded themselves priests.\u201d \u00a0And, indeed, the summary of the article, from the Chicago NBC affiliate<\/a>, and shared on facebook, chooses its language even more carefully (quoted in full):<\/p>\n

\u201cWomen Declare Themselves Priests, Defying Catholic Church\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

\u00a0 An 80-year-old Florida woman defied the Catholic Church by declaring herself a Catholic priest on Saturday, joining with a breakaway group of about 200 Catholic women worldwide who have ceremonially ordained themselves priests despite the Church\u2019s traditional ban and threat of excommunication, NBC News reported. In a ceremony that draws on the Catholic rite, Rita Lucey prostrated herself in the aisle of a (borrowed Protestant) church, and afterward gave out Communion. \u201cIt\u2019s the Rosa Parks movement of the Catholic Church,\u201d said Bridget Mary Meehan of the Association of Roman Catholic Women Priests. \u201cThe Vatican cannot continue to discriminate against women and blame God for it.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I don\u2019t have a big point here, but it is interesting that this article is careful not to say that these women are<\/b> priests, just that they have declared themselves to be so.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Back in the fall, I wrote a longish post on women wanting to be priests. \u00a0In brief, I criticized women \u201d\u00a0for whom the ordination was a \u2018thing\u2019 that [they] wanted and a career path [they] desired, rather than a call to serve in a community,\u201d but at the same time suggested that \u201cWhat is missing […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2209,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[8,76],"class_list":["post-101","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-catholicism","tag-priesthood"],"yoast_head":"\nWomen and the Priesthood: in the news<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Back in the fall, I wrote a longish post on women wanting to be priests.  In brief, I criticized women " for whom the ordination was a 'thing'\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, 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