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Sunday, September 26, 2010

"Rise and Revolt: Catholic Women Take on the Vatican" / YoLadies.com


Ordination of Dena O'Callaghan (left)
and Katy Zatsick (right) as priests
in Sarasota, Florida

Feb.5,2010
http://www.yoladies.com/featured/2010/09/rise-and-revolt---catholic-women-take-on-the-vatican.html

September 25, 2010 | Kim Milata-Daniels

"Today, there is a growing number of women all over the world who intend to reclaim their once revered place in the church. Since 2002, they have been ordained deacons, priests, and bishops...

"I spoke to Bishop Bridget Mary Meehan about this affront not only to women but to society and the church. She and her sisters and supporters are only strengthened by the Vatican's archaic and offensive behavior. This is nothing less than a revolution, and in the spirit of women like Hildegard, Joan of Arc, and Saint Theodora - all excommunicated by the church only to later be named saints - the Roman Catholic WomenPriests are calling for a complete upheaval of the Catholic doctrine. They look not only to welcome women as leaders, but also to change the system from a closed and secretive hierarchy to an open, community based church. These women, although devoted to Catholicism itself, are modern and want their callings of service to be relevant to today's world - not only by supporting female leadership and married priests, but by supporting reproductive rights and gay rights, as well."

"What these women are finding, in their disobedience to unjust laws, is that they are gaining support from Catholics every day. After the Sarasota Diocese warned their members that anyone in attendance of this ordination ceremony would be excommunicated, many showed up stating that they didn't care. It was almost a dare from the backwards, medieval and increasingly irrelevant entity, and one that many were thrilled to take."

"Jesus was a major rule breaker," Bridget Mary points out to her critics. To those who state that women cannot be leaders because the twelve apostles were all men, she cries foul. It isn't true that there were only twelve apostles - the number was symbolic of the twelve tribes of Isreal and nothing more. In fact, the most revered apostle was Mary Magdalene, and she was not the only woman in the circle of Christ. When some try to point to Bible passages to back their misogynistic beliefs, Bridget Mary points to Romans 16, where Junia was named as an apostle."

"When I asked her what she thought of the church's unwavering stance on ordained women, she could only point to pure misogyny. "The Vatican's own scholars, in 1976 looked at scripture and concluded that nothing in scripture prohibits women ordination." The centuries of hatred for women and the feminine have saturated the inbred Vatican leadership, preventing them from even acknowledging their own findings, if it means that tradition is threatened in the process."...

4 comments:

The Catholic Apologist said...

Sunday, September 26, 2010

"Rise and Revolt: Catholic Women Take on the Vatican"

Oh, and I bet the Vatican is shaking in their boots.

Please! 2010 years of heresies, armies, etc, and you think the Vatican is afraid of you? How arrogant! You think you are the absolute worst they have ever had to face in 2010 years?

Ravensbarque said...

Actually, they are shaking in their boots. If they weren't, they would be ignoring the women priests. Instead they are doing numerous silly things -- like issuing edict after edict and raising women's ordination to the same level of seriousness as pedophilia. And look at how ridiculous it looks to the world at large when excommunications are handed out dime a dozen to anyone connected with women's ordination but pedophiles remain in good standing.

The Catholic Apologist said...

Rav,

On the contrary the Vatican is not doing so out of fear- but to show the gravity and seriousness of the actions of these women.

It is an attempt to wake people up and get them out of their complacency. It is also an attempt to wake up the women involved and help them realize what they are doing to their souls.

Is it effective? Certainly not. The Vatican is all but being ignored as Bridget Mary so often likes to point out. However- winning the battle isn't always as important as the choice to fight it in the first place.

La Bisbessa said...

Cuando no se tiene razón, se entra en la sinrazón y el castigo. La jerarquía católica sabe bien que no tiene motivos para oponerse. Pero tiene miedo de hacerlo ahora y de hacerlo mal. RCWP es un grito profético, pero el ritmo de la Iglesia es lento precisamente por ser católica y depender de muchas sensibilidades. Tardaremos años en llegar donde ellas están, pero llegaremos, pues Dios llama sin parar a mujeres para el ministerio. "Apologista", búscalas, pues las hay.
Un saludo desde Barcelona, España.