Edit: earlier last year, the Holy Father was talking about ordaining women to the office of Reader. Cardinal George, last week, was apparently encouraging a woman that he would discuss the office of Deacon for women when he went to Rome.
This week, the Holy Father addresses a co-ed group of altar servers and disturbingly says, addressing both the boys and the girls present:
“And, if one day you feel called to follow the path to the priesthood or religious life, respond generously,”
Fact: Diocese, parishes, Catholic religious societies, which don't have women serving on the altar during Mass are not in demographic free fall. There is no vocations crisis there.
As the Church continues to make concessions to the irrationality of the zeitgeist, She will continue to falter and be the willing victim of the media and their political masters. Wherever the Church resists these forces, like feminism, Marxism, and so forth, She is strong.
CASTEL GANDOLFO, Italy (CNS) -- Marking the feast of the martyrdom of St. John the Baptist, Pope Benedict XVI said Christians must not bow to the pressure of the powerful who demand a denial of Christ or of the truth he taught.
"The truth is the truth and there is no compromise," the pope said at his weekly general audience Aug. 29, the day the church remembers St. John the Baptist's beheading.
An estimated 2,500 people gathered in the town square just outside the papal summer villa in Castel Gandolfo for the main part of the pope's audience.
Link to CNS...
H/t:: The oblivious Deacon's Bench...
LOL. Add this to the deacon's crack pipe.
ReplyDelete"Pope Benedict XVI said Christians must not bow to the pressure of the powerful who demand a denial of Christ or of the truth he taught."
ReplyDeleteYou mean like joining in prayer to false gods? Or changing the Good Friday prayer to appease the Jews?
The "office of Reader"? ROFL ROFL What a hoot. What will be next? The Office of Door Greeter and Bulletin Passerouter"? Will they be "ordained"? Oh, ROFL ROFL ROFL!
ReplyDeleteWell, in fairness to Cardinal George (and this coming from an uncompromising traditionalist), I think the worst light is being shed on his remark. The boys understand that both the priesthood and religious life are open to them, while the girls recognize (anyway, they should!) that only the latter is an option. That being said, His Eminence could have been clearer and more artful in the way he expressed himself.
ReplyDeleteThis was the Pope who directed the remarks to the girls, sorry that's not more clear, but what are girls doing there in the first place?
ReplyDeleteI'd like to know how many female altar servers do enter into religious life. I can't imagine there are many.
Sorry for my misreading, though it doesn't affect my point. But permit me to add that female altar servers should be absolutely forbidden.
DeleteYour misreading was our fault, we corrected it.
DeleteA person can still view the Holy Father's words as you have read them, or a person can view them in a less traditional sense.
That's the problem with this tendency stemming from the Council to legislate Catholicism but allow for something less. The ambiguity of it all is not only confusing, but demoralizing as well.
True enough. The ambiguity introduced and fostered by the internal Judeo-Masonic enemies of the Church since and through Vatican II have wreaked havoc. The fruits are indeed bitter.
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