Sunday 2 October 2011

Female Priests in the Roman Catholic Church

Rita posts on a woman at her church "squirming and struggling" when the priest said the priesthood was for men.

Well, yes.

My money is on the Apocalypse occuring in HD and Surround-sound, in a carbon copy of Drayton Parslow's dreamiest dreams, before the Roman Catholic Church ordained a woman priest. The woman in the row in front of Rita will die frustrated if she continues in (a) her beliefs and (b) her church. My sympathy is with her, but it ain't gonna happen. This is not like the Church of England, where things are constantly under negotiation. Nor the Methodists, where they can't see what all the fuss is about - having had female ministers for decades, who are just as good at the job as men. Nor the Beaker Folk of Husborne Crawley, where it's male archdruids that will never happen - men being the unstable, emotionally-inarticulate creatures that they are, bless them.

I'd suggest the woman concerned needs to change her denomination, or her views, or just lump it. Squirming's no real way forward.

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