tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329600504016968888.post2761033118717786231..comments2024-03-27T15:47:46.091-05:00Comments on Pastoral Meanderings: Catholic Women Priests!?Pastor Petershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10653554256101480140noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329600504016968888.post-5229540485348727952011-06-09T21:48:38.974-05:002011-06-09T21:48:38.974-05:00Why would a Lutheran waste one second on a "C...Why would a Lutheran waste one second on a "Catholic Answers Forum", or Catholic anything else?<br /><br />They do have a point, and, as usual with Rome, it completely misses the point.<br /><br />"Schismatic" according to who? The RCC of course, which as an institution has been schismatic from the Gospel for centuries.<br /><br />Judas H Priest in therapy, were I to join a group that holds to what the RCC taught me was the Catholic Faith to depart from which is schismatic, I would be in a group the RCC now calls schismatic.<br /><br />The hallucinations of any aspect of the RCC have utterly nothing to offer us. Whatever.Terry Maherhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17122266461403246084noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329600504016968888.post-37422793870824060802011-06-09T12:28:02.886-05:002011-06-09T12:28:02.886-05:00Catholic women priests is a non sequitur! I spend...Catholic women priests is a non sequitur! I spend some time over on the Catholic Answers Forum where the Catholics have oft reminded us Lutherans not to be too critical of schismatics as Martin Luther was a schismatic. <br />They do have a point, I guess.bill s.noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329600504016968888.post-17663717799560542002011-06-08T13:44:23.751-05:002011-06-08T13:44:23.751-05:00This is another case of seeing something from the ...This is another case of seeing something from the outside and not seeing it as it is itself.<br /><br />These ordinations are invalid on purely Catholic grounds. It is not a matter of ex opere operato. And even when that applies, for any sacrament to be valid in Catholicism it must be correct in matter, intent and form.<br /><br />Here, the defect is form. Christ does not call women to be pastors in His Church, and even if a woman is ordained by a thousand bishops in apostolic succession no sacrament is confected. Similarly in marriage, also an RC sacrament, the rite of marriage may be correctly performed, but, if one of the parties is in fact already married -- the defect of form -- no sacramental marriage happens.<br /><br />The argument that these are in fact valid ordinations is that Christ indeed can and does call women to be priests, that maleness is not essential to the priesthood but like celibacy simply a human regulation, therefore, if the church holds these human regulations to be on the order of divinely established essentials, one can in Christ step outside them.Terry Maherhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17122266461403246084noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329600504016968888.post-86402577790888193342011-06-08T13:35:09.941-05:002011-06-08T13:35:09.941-05:00This comment has been removed by the author.Terry Maherhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17122266461403246084noreply@blogger.com