{"id":516,"date":"2011-08-22T19:27:00","date_gmt":"2011-08-22T19:27:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/standingonmyhead\/2011\/08\/women-ministers-in-the-catholic-church\/"},"modified":"2011-08-22T19:27:00","modified_gmt":"2011-08-22T19:27:00","slug":"women-ministers-in-the-catholic-church","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/standingonmyhead\/2011\/08\/women-ministers-in-the-catholic-church.html","title":{"rendered":"Women Ministers in the Catholic Church"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<\/head>\n\n\n\n
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I have written in previous posts about the stated intention of certain Catholic bishops and high ranking clergy in the United Kingdom to actually discourage priestly vocations because they have a liberal, feminist agenda.<\/p>\n

Their argument goes like this: \u201cWe have too many priests rather than too few. This means that the church is still incorrigibly clericalist. The laity have still not found their voice. Lay women especially have been excluded and marginalized. Therefore we will discourage priestly vocations\u2013especially from Anglican clergy converts, \u2018rigid\u2019 young men who are orthodox in their beliefs, and anyone basically who doesn\u2019t sign on to our seventies, polyester liberal agenda. Then we can pressure Rome to let us have women priests. But if Rome still won\u2019t let us have women priests we won\u2019t have any priests at all. Instead we\u2019ll have laypeople running parishes and they can be lay women. We\u2019ll make sure that the bishops appoint them and they are \u2018our\u2019 kind of women.\u201d<\/i><\/p>\n

I was told it is happening here in the USA as well, and here<\/a> is proof. In the Diocese of San Jose they are appointing women \u2018Ministers of Parish Life\u2019 who will run the parish. A priest will visit to administer the sacraments. I expect the priest will not be there every Sunday to say Mass and certainly not every day for daily Mass. I am willing to be corrected, but I expect that means the female \u2018Minister of Parish Life\u2019 will be authorized to conduct \u201ccommunion services\u201d using the reserved sacrament.<\/p>\n

Apart from the obvious retardation of such an idea (that the reserved sacrament is for lay people to help themselves to) they will take this inch and run a mile.<\/p>\n

The lady \u201cMinister of Parish Life\u201d will wear a cassock and surplice and some sort of vestment which will be indistinguishable from a deacon\u2019s or priest\u2019s stole. She will light the candles, process in and conduct the communion service from behind the altar and it will look like a Mass for as much as most people will be able to see and understand. They\u2019ll probably get around the prohibition of laity reading the gospel and preaching by allowing her to read a homily prepared by a priest, or they will simply say, \u201cShe is not preaching. She is sharing a few thoughts\u2026\u201d<\/p>\n

Then the laity will pipe up and say, \u201cDorothy does everything the priest does! Why is it that she can\u2019t say those few words of consecration? How unfair to Dorothy! How cruel and hurtful is this dreadful patriarchal Catholic church not to allow Dorothy to be ordained!\u201d And Dorothy and her clergy supporters and her bishop will all look wounded and hurt and cry together and have a group hug and pretend to be victims.<\/p>\n

Fasten your seatbelts. It\u2019s coming to a diocese near you!<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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