Once a year they pop up in the news. Their chosen gives them away. It's like "Vegetarian Meat Lovers". It just doesn't work.I've written about them in the past. A few years ago they brought their circus to Pittsburgh. This time they are in Boston.
The Archdiocese of Boston has issued a statement in response to a group that planned and performed an ordination ceremony for three women in Boston on Sunday. In the July 18 statement the archdiocese’s vicar general, Father Richard Erikson, explained Catholic teaching on the male-only priesthood and said the group, which calls itself Roman Catholic Womenpriests, is “not an entity of the Roman Catholic Church.”
In its statement the Archdiocese of Boston said: “The Catholic Church is made up of women and men, equal in rights and diverse in gifts and ministries. Following our devotion to Mary, the Church is committed to, and sustained by the many important contributions of women each and every day.”
The statement said that women help shape the course of the Church as members of religious communities, lay members in leadership roles, educators, canon lawyers, and service providers in “many other critical areas.”
However, the archdiocese explained, “the ordination of men to the priesthood is not merely a matter of practice or discipline within the Catholic Church, but rather, it is part of the unalterable Deposit of Faith handed down by Christ through his apostles.”
You must ask yourself why these women would want to be part of something they disagree with. There are plenty of other denominations that accept women, yet they target the Roman Catholic Church.
The real reason is they don't wish to simply join the Church, they wish to undermine, weaken and destroy it. How can one claim to be obedient to the Christ if the disobey the very institution He founded?
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If they don't wish to comply with the rules of the Catholic church then they should join another congregation of Christians where they do ordain women as ministers.
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