(left to right:Janice Sevre-Duszynska, Bridget Mary Meehan
at Ordination of Deacon Donna Rougeux )
http://www.kentucky.com/2011/10/03/1905852/letters-to-editor-oct-3.html
"The Vatican (and representatives of the institutional church) is the gift that keeps on giving," says woman bishop, Bridget Mary Meehan.
In his recent op-ed, as a spokesperson for the Roman Catholic Diocese of Lexington, Tom Shaughnessy validates her statement. As a woman priest who celebrates weekly Mass in Lexington, be assured there will be more folks at our inclusive liturgy because of what he has written.
Jesus was a revolutionary. The Last Supper was not an ordination. Jesus never ordained anyone. He calls us to a community of equals, with mutuality: a circle, not a hierarchy. He challenged the religious and civil authorities of his time to empower the marginalized, including women.
We're doing the same. Shaughnessy's straight-line Vatican theology is absurd and the church — the people of God — knows that.
In 1976, the Vatican requested its Pontifical Biblical Commission of 20 biblical scholars to explore the issue of women priests. They found no biblical obstacles to women's ordination. Scriptural and archaeological research give evidence of women's leadership in the early church as deacons, priests and even bishops.
The Christ within each of us is beyond gender. Women's rights are human rights. We are claiming the right to stand "in persona Christi" — in the person of Christ — as equals to men.
Who are Shaughnessy and his brother priests at the Vatican to say that God calls only men? Such thinking and behavior is a sin against women and our loving God.
Janice Sevre-Duszynska
Priest, Association of Roman Catholic Women Priests
Lexington
Read more:
http://www.kentucky.com/2011/10/03/1905852/letters-to-editor-oct-3.html#ixzz1ZjVyD4kr
1 comment:
"As a woman priest who celebrates weekly Mass in Lexington, be assured there will be more folks at our inclusive liturgy because of what he has written. Jesus was a revolutionary. The Last Supper was not an ordination. Jesus never ordained anyone."
All false.
"In 1976, the Vatican requested its Pontifical Biblical Commission of 20 biblical scholars to explore the issue of women priests. They found no biblical obstacles to women's ordination."
That same year women's ordination was debunked by the Vatican.
"Scriptural and archaeological research give evidence of women's leadership in the early church as deacons, priests and even bishops."
False, at least for the last two items. Perhaps you're confusing schismatic and heretical gnostic sects from the first few centuries with the true Church? This would the same were we to look back 1,000 years at so-called "evidence" of today. If people in the future uncover "evidence" that schismatics like your group were playing priest, it doesn't meant that women priestesses were validly recognized by the Church in 2011 (which they aren't!).
"Who are Shaughnessy and his brother priests at the Vatican to say that God calls only men? "
To the priesthood, Jesus DID call only men.
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