The Holy Father's Household Theologian, Fr. Wojciech Giertych, OP explains the impossibility of ordaining women to the priesthood and responds to several common objections made against this reality.
Good job, fra. Wojciech!
Hat Tip: Fr. Z.
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I could have fun with this if I played it at my parish...last week someone asked that we all pray that Fr. Ray Bourgeois be allowed to continue his wonderful work.
ReplyDeleteI'll have to watch this again. I get involved in some rather interesting discussions for which I am not remotely prepared. Many of them along the lines of: "Jesus never said anything like that....it's all a construct of man."
"It's all a construct of man." Nominalism at its core.
DeleteInteresting that nominalism appeared in my son's history lesson today. Hmmmm......
DeleteYikes. Did you pray the St Michael's Prayer and run for the holy water!?
DeleteIn sacramental theology, if I recall, it is not only taught THAT the Lord established such and such a sacrament in such and such a form and matter, etc. but WHY. Baptism is with water, not sand; Eucharist with bread and wine, not rice and beer; matrimony with a man and a woman, not two women, etc. Not only because of Scripture and Tradition but because of the natural capacities of the water, bread, wine, oil, male and female, etc.
ReplyDeleteWhat the Church lacks, IMHO, is a comparable reading of man, that is, adult males. What is it about men that makes them naturally apt for this sacramental role?
Otherwise the justification for excluding women sounds unconvincing because those who hold it are basically saying, "What can we do? It's his decision not ours?"
A woman would have a hard time sacramentally presenting spiritual fatherhood. Of course, nothing said will convince those who see no ontological difference btw a man and a woman. The nominalist/pragmatic mindset of your average American simply has no way of computing the notion that reality isn't malleable through language games.
DeleteOn one of the eeeevil rightwing sites I read, as part of his protest against women soldiers, the author writes: "According to this view of things, there are no castes or sacred roles. There are no tribes or peoples. There are no men or women. There are only jobs and qualifications for those jobs. If you ascribe to this view of the world, you deserve women in combat, and are partially responsible for it."
ReplyDeleteTechnocratic nominalism in the service of the radical egalitarianism that is dismantling our civilization.
As I have complained before, the Church puts its foot down when it comes to contraception mandates and ordaining women and marrying samesex partners, but has cooperated joyfully and gleefully with most of the rest of the egalitarian trance that is now catching up with it.