Saturday, February 28, 2009

Jesuit blasts St. Paul, Catholic teaching on women’s ordination

http://z10.invisionfree.com/The_Unhived_Mind_II/index.php?showtopic=8197&st=0&#entry1959483

5 comments:

Andrea Muhrrteyn said...

Well what da ya know, a Jesuit with the courage to explore his god given gifts of reason.... Wow, now that's inspiring; since the dear father clearly on a subconscious level understands that there are many more than one way to behead a woman... and we may take a look at the log in our own eyes.

Good for him!!

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February 27, 2009

In a recent article for The Washington Post and Newsweek’s On Faith site , Father Aloysius Howe, a Jesuit and international visiting fellow at Georgetown University’s Woodstock Theological Center, has blasted Catholic teaching on women’s ordination.Commenting on the recent beheading of a woman by her Muslim husband in Buffalo, Father Howe says, “Something very insidious is happening when a case of domestic violence becomes an opportunity for Muslim-baiting.” Father Howe continues:

The Pauline analogy of husbands mirroring Christ and wives mirroring the church has within it the seeds of much in theology and church discipline that is sexist and misogynist. The attitudes that men have towards women are formed very early in their development. We are socialized within our families, in our church communities, in our schools. If Catholics are told that only men can be, for sacramental purposes, in persona Christi, standing in the place of Christ at the Eucharist, are we seriously meant to believe that this does not lay down the germ of an idea, namely that women are inferior to men, even in the order of God's grace? If all the discernment and decisions that affect women in the Church are made only by celibate men, are we to conclude that this has no effect at all on the attitudes of Catholic men towards women?

Father Howe continues, “The sin of clericalism, however, is a choice, and not an ineluctable consequence of being a Catholic priest. Similarly, Catholic men may read St Paul, or the latest Vatican instruction against women priests, and yet come away unconvinced that socially-conditioned notions from 2 millennia ago have the force of divine will.”

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So what did you think about the Father's words, Master Timothy? ;-)

Lara

Timothy said...

There is nothing wrong with using reasoning. This Jesuit is wrong since he violates God's Word while claiming to be a Christian. If he doesn't like Paul, he can easily leave Christianity. It's as simple as that.

Timothy said...

Also, no where in the NT outline priests as a clergy for all believes are apart of the priesthood of God. Also, I'm not Master. Only God is true Master. The priest should leave Roman Catholicism and follow real freedom plus doctrines.

Timothy said...

Although, it's fine to reject sexism in any format.

By Timothy

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