Tuesday 1 March 2011

Mgr Loftus on 'poor Lavinia Byrne'!

Further to my last but one post. If you read the article byMgr Loftus, in the Leeds Diocesan newspaper, you may have noticed that The Ghost of Councils Past refers to Lavinia Byrne and the "disgraceful treatment" she received which he described as one of the "post-conciliar errors". A friend of mine pointed out the following:

But, let’s not forget that at the heart of the Lavinia Byrne case was her refusal to accept Catholic teaching on the question of whether women can be priests. And on this question the Church’s doctrine has been utterly consistent since the beginning of the Christian era: namely that the Church has no authority to ordain women. This was confirmed by Pope John Paul II in 1994. He made it very clear that this was not a new dogma, but a very old one. To teach the contrary, he declared, is “equivalent to leading consciences into error.”

The ladies below need not have had any worries, I think. In fact, one look would have sent you running for the bottle. As someone once said to me, the strongest argument against ordaining women might be the women who actually want to be ordained!

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3 comments:

Simon Platt said...

Hey,

Give me liquor, any day!

(Until next Wednesday :-( )

Sixupman said...

A Free Church minister friend of mine said he knew of no biblical reason for the ordination of women - but he questionned their motives,

He was also aghast at the abandonment of the TLM, which he had witnessed caused disorientation of the faithfull in the Far East mission fields where he worked. [Hand in hand with Catholic missionaries!]

Richard Collins said...

I think they deserve each other!