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

RC Church: Get embracing, get spiritual, GET REAL. That itinerant Judean rebbe who claimed equality with collaborators, sellers of sex, women of need, & kicked ass of the Establishment would have a field day with you in the Vatican. Hope he comes back soon --in your face. This is from a faith-filled & outraged believer in Him, am still within the RC fold. Keep it up, & you'll lose thousands. Soon there will only be thee & me, & you'll have doubts about me. PS. Your position is NOT grounded in history. Issues like these have evolved & have been synthesized in various ways over the 2 millennia. Your only real spiritual task is to decide whether to be Jesus-like inclusive of this world's seekers, or to continue your Ol' Boys Private country club : NO ____, ____,______, ____, or _____ ALLOWED. (Fill in your own blanks.) Incidently, the reason priesthood was male-oriented from Melchizedek thru the 2nd Temple period & beyond is that men did not allow slaves,lepers, women, & other "undesireables into their club. Please don't throw around God's name in this. It was the Establishment who wrote these histories. Anything contradictory was quickly excluded. 'Nuff said.

The Catholic priesthood is pre-figured on the Personhood of Jesus Christ, who was and still is the ultimate High Priest in the order of Melchizedek, which had an ancient lineage in the Judaic priesthood. The masculine gender of Jesus is more than accidental as it is central to the criteria for the priesthood, which does not in essence make men superior or inferior to women. Both men and women have different roles which are complementary but different to each-other within the Church. Christ only chose men in relation to the first generation of his closest apostles and He was not acting out of respect to any sociological fad or tradition. This has been the common practice in the Church universal, both in the West and East for well nigh on 2000 years.

Catholics need a Biblical, theological and rational reason fro the ordination of women to the priesthood. the rational is easy, we now know that women and men are equal as human beings, with no hierarchy that automatically puts men above women. Even the Catholic church sort of accepts this. ... Biblically, Genesis 1, the poem presenting God's vision for humanity and nature as being in tune with God, states that the image of God is found in male and female, not in one or the other. using the catholic notion of condignity, employed in proclaiming the doctrine of the Immaculate Cnception, it would be in accord with the dignity of women as created equal to men that they be enabled to live fully as Christians, including taking Holy Orders. ... One "biblical" argument against the ordination of women focuses on the lack of women at the institution of the Eucharist at the Last Supper. But actually the institution of the Eucharist can be viewed as starting with the Last Supper, continuing through the Crucifixion Resurrection and completed at Pentecost. Women were present at the Crucifixion, the Resurrection and Pentecost.

It's about time the Church imposed sanctions against wayward acolytes. Father Brennan isn't the only Jesuit who needs his head handed to him; most of them in America do. The Jesuit provinces, especially the colleges and universities have no Catholic resemblance.

I'm beginning to think the Catholic Church hierarchy are Republicans. They are living in the past, can't get a grip on reality and wish to maintain their privileged status. The laws of the laws of the land have changed and it is only the Taliban and the Catholic Church that seem to maintain the attitude that women are chattel and inferior and not entitled to participate equally. The stories that are the basis for many religions were written by men who ruled by physical force and lived a life where women were subservient and children were to be seen and not heard. WHEN WILL THE CATHOLIC CHURCH BECOME MORE CHRISTIAN AND TREAT ALL PEOPLE AS EQUALS. THIS IS NOT THE DARK AGES !!! Cut off all monies to the Catholic Church and once the money gods at the Vatican realize their privileged way of life is threatened they may reinterpret the scriptures and suddenly realize the previous translation was flawed. Heaven forbid they would ever admit the men of the church have written policies that are specifically designed to maintain their control and has nothing to do with Christian values.

the Society said: “The Province did not approve or sanction the event, and regrets Father Brennan’s participation in it." Typical CULT behaviour.so he is a bad black sheep for associating with wombmen- oh dear...not looking good boys.

Well, this is simple- he is a free sovereign human being with a free will? Law of the Universe overrides any man in a dress "law".

This reminds me of an old song called Brennan on the moor - so in this case Hooray for old Brennan on the Moor!!