Church takes action against Jesuit for celebrating mass with a woman priest

@Eiriamach, The "churches" which came out of the reformation and accepted the necessity for women "priests" are in free-fall across Europe and the US. One has only to check out the fortunes of the lutherans, anglicans etc. The gnostic books which you quote have been unanimously rejected by the Church universal(Catholic and Orthodox) as they are not in the mainstream of Christian thought and form rather an anomalous contribution to the history of Christianity. The Catholic priesthood is based solidly on the personhood of Christ, Whose own bodily sacrifice was the ultimate price to be paid for the ending of all previous sacrifices and the ransom for humankind in terms of overcoming death and sin. As I have stated before, the fact that Jesus is male was not accidental to the future decision of the Catholic Church to select only men for the priesthood. It is also based on the Judaic priesthood who performed sacrifices in the "Holy of Holies" sanctuary in the temple in Jerusalem in ancient times as well as the biblical imperative that men acted as head of their households.

I challenge Robbiepdunn to make su such serious allegations against any other religion ,and not expect reprisals !He is the usual uneducated bigoted clown !

Why would women want to be part of a church which discrimates against them anyway. The catholic chuch is just a haven for child abusers anyway go and start your own church

Fr. Brennan has gone off the trail. He is 92 and "Janice" is just using him. They will both fade away as usual when IC gets tired of making them 'news'.

There is no proof that women were or wrer not at the last supper, the "dogma" that women were not present is a presumption and only that. The Catholic church treated women as "chattels" and subservient to male domination they (the church) has only given "partial" recogonition to women. In typical fashion Geraoid reads his flawed bible in a dogmatic fashion and in doing so consigns the catholic church to the middle ages and that's where the extreme right wing pope and his minions want the church to be. Porick starting a new church is a simple reply to a complex argument.

More catholic church crap...

It's simple make like Martin Luther and start your own church. What's the matter? Can't get any members?

Anti-religious bigots and the usual drone of 'get with the times'. This is the call of the idiotic mob.

It's always so delightful to see Gearoid4 writing of women in the priesthood as "sociological fad"! I suppose the Reformation was also a "sociological fad" that will soon fade from memory? Female priests are no fad in my church but an established tradition, or rather a restoration of original tradition. Has Christianity really had 2,000 years of male-only priests? Not at all, though males-only chose the canon of Gospels, while ancient Christian texts that we now call "gnostic" or non-canonical testify to women among the disciples, as teachers of the apostles, ministers of the word and the Eucharist. The "tradition" was not male-only before Vaticanization. As for "the order of Melchizedek, which had an ancient lineage in the Judaic priesthood," how do you explain the fact that women have been rabbis for decades! Once you exclude some on the basis of gender alone, you cannot expect anyone to believe that you consider the genders equal. I wonder what Jesus would say about your making his male genitalia the essence of his priesthood.

God bless Father Brennan. He did what he knew in his mind and soull was right.

Erudite comments? Perhaps. But the bottom line is simple-there are no Roman Catholic women 'priests' period!

The argument that Jesus chose men for the priesthood/apostles falls apart when you realize that Jesus chose ONLY JEWS. Shouldn't all priests be JEWS.

Maybe Jesus chose only men because he was, shall we say, more comfortable around them then women. But then again, once we learned about some ancient scrolls that suggested jesus may actually have had a wife, we can begin to think having women as priest now is not such a big deal.

I'll try to make it simple, although I know that many of youse liberal omadhauns won't get it whatever I say or do. Say you are in the military, and you are a new soldier, a private. Your sergeant tells you to do something. If you don't do it, you are penalized for not following orders.

Hey Kubs, That itinerant Judean Rebbe did whatever he wanted; he was, after all, God. HE did not choose women to be among the twelve disciples. God himself chose a woman, Mary, to be held above every other human being. Not the RC CHURCH, God. Women were given a different role--one that they abdicated because they became jealous of men.