THE CATHOLIC KNIGHT: Save the date! The Episcopal Diocese of Los Angeles is set to consecrate as bishop Mary Glasspool, an active and partnered lesbian. This comes six years after the consecration of Bishop Gene Robinson in New Hampshire. Robinson is also an active and partnered homosexual. Both Glasspool and Robinson are open about their homosexuality and see no problem with it conflicting with their professed Christian faith. The Episcopal Church seems to have no problem with it either, and in fact there is a good chance that another homosexual will soon be elected bishop in the Episcopal Diocese of Nevada. I've heard rumors there is even another potential somewhere in the Old South (Dixie).
It will be interesting to see how conservatives within the Anglican Communion will react to this. They have already threatened to disassociate from The Episcopal Church completely.
In light of all this The Catholic Knight has just one question for our Episcopalian brothers and sisters in Christ. How's that whole "Protestant Reformation" thing working you for you?
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SPLASH!!!! the sound of anglo catholics jumping into the Tiber. Pete Frey
Sir Knight, May 15 is also the date of St Dyphna's feast. Since she's the patroness of the insane, maybe me should offer up prayers for the Episcopal Diocese of LA on that day!
Technically it's a pseudo-consecration, and a pseudo-bishop. Even if it was a heterosexual male, they still have no sacramental priesthood. They are lay ministers just like any Protestant pastor.
Poof. The sound of the Anglican Communion imploding!
Quick question: Where can I go for a good, intellectual defense of the Catholic doctrine on the role of works in salvation?
I'll be busy for the past weekend aiding my parish youth ministry so I won't have much time to contribute. I'll peep in maybe once or twice a day, but I'll add in on this one while I have time.
Personally, all I see out of this is, is another contribution to the world that is against Catholicism and promotes misandry in general, in the form of the secular trifecta of the Main Stream Media, Feminism, and Homosexuality. These factions do exist in co-operation but a better online source about such a union is covered better in a non-religious blog run by forensic psychologist Dr. Helen Smith. It's another blog I visit and numerous entries are real eye openers to the backlash against men and conservative values (including Christianity).
http://drhelen.blogspot.com/
Now, as for some theological addition to this post, I did manage to keep my package of class notes and handouts from my grade 13 Catholic seminars course,
(Skip beyond this point unless you are interested in course content)
which sadly is now defunct, due to making Ontario 4 years of high school from 5 years in 2003. It was taught by an awesome Basillian priest and the course content would be nigh impossible to re-obtain without much effort: definitions of knowledge and being and philosophy, metaphysics and the property of being by looking at one's own being, the existence and nature of God, Creation of man including some study of Humani Generis by Pius XII, Theology of Grace, Sin and Sanctifying grace as well as ways to obtain grace, and examinations of various saints. Also the memorization of "new" prayers of the Universal prayer for all things necessary to salvation from Clement XI, and the Memorare.
This I took at St. Michael's College School in Toronto for absolutely no credit. However, a small part of the course covered the Church's reasoning for saying NO to female ordination. I could explore further when I have time from the handout, but here's the summary statements as to why NO, verbatim from my handouts:
1) Priests of Christ who are Christ's mouths through whom He speaks the words 'This is my Body' must be male because Christ is male
2) furthermore, Christ who is the perfect image of the Father is male because God the Father is masculine ..... "He" not "She"
This has to do with Sexual symbolism and reason by way of Authority of the Church and a couple of other things explored furhter in the handout, but I will have to come back to it in a few days if questions arise.
IN ONE OF THE IMAGE SERIES "FAITH" THERE IS A PRIEST INCENSING HE ALTAR. HIS BACK IS PROPERLY TO THE CONGREGATION, AND HE, PROPERLY, FACING THE ALTAR. BUT! WHERE IS THE TABERNACLE? WHERE IS THE GUEST OF HONOR AT THIS CELEBRATION? GLEADI AND, AS FAR AS THE WOMAN ABOUT TO BE MADE AS BISHOP OF THE EPISCOPAL FAITH, THAT IS IMMORAL, OBSCENE, DISGUSTING, REVOLTING AND A WASTE OF TIME NO WONDER SO MANY EPISCOPALIANS ARE SEEKING REFUGE IN THE ROMAN CATHOLIC FAITH.. [NOTE: THE ANGLICAN FAITH WAS ESTABLISHED BY HENRY VIII "YE SHALL COME OR YE SHALL BE BEHEADED!? GREAT WAY TO HAVE A RELIGION ESTABLISHED.]
PS: A blog by a young canadian male makes irrefutable great sense relating to the obvious.;;;At the Consecreation...the Male celebrant, utters the words..."this is my body...." It seems sinful to indicate that Our lord somehow changed his sex! {if a woman was to utter these same words.}
1) Priests of Christ who are Christ's mouths through whom He speaks the words 'This is my Body' must be male because Christ is male
2) furthermore, Christ who is the perfect image of the Father is male because God the Father is masculine ..... "He" not "She"
I'm sorry but these are really lame reasons.
For point 1: We are all baptized into the priesthood of Christ. To say a priest must be male because Jesus was a man is just crazy and is merely a self-fulfilling statement. It is selective reasoning on which imagry is taken literally and which is not. Often the Church/Bride and Priest/Jesus/Bridegroom imagry is used, yet when a priest is ordained and "marries" the church, he is not literally seen as married to all the men and women that comprise the church. In fact he is expected to remain celebate and not engage in marital relations with his bride. Also, the members of the church are the Body of Christ. This includes both women and men as the Body of Christ. So obviously Christ's representative doesn't have to be male. (By the way, what happens if a hermaphrodite wanted to join the priesthood? Why do the appearance of gonads and genetalia matter?)
For point 2: God is tri-part and God is only one God unless we claim to be polytheistic. There are references to the Holy Spirit as Wisdom and "She" in the Bible. Thus there are "feminine" elements, just as there are "masculine" elements, within the Godhead.
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