'Ordain a lady' campaign for women to become priests goes viral – VIDEO

Here's something to bring a tear to Smyrnian's eyes... A Catholic's response to The Commentator. The Commentator asks why the Catholic Church is not keeping up with the times. Is s/he so ignorant as to ask such a question?? Does s/he not know that God does not have any ‘time’ - old, new or future? That God is eternal, with no ‘time’ limits or a daily diary, a daily newspaper, a website or a Facebook or Twitter a/c or the latest Adele or One Direction fan page, never mind the latest phone gadget to keep in contact with the Pope? I am one of those who know ‘time’ does not exist, though I know my body does have a limit of human existence. Commentator obviously believes that there’s really, really, really such a thing as 24-hr clock, a 356 day year (how scientists it wrong!... they had to add another bit of "time" to their 'clock' – leap year correction, anyone?) and that there’s no such thing as timelessness. Idiot. Doesn’t s/he know that “Time” was invented by mankind to bring some order to mankind’s world? Does s/he not know that the moon is drifting away from planet earth and that that will change the planet s/he knows for future mankind? What universe is Commentator living within? When will s/he recognise that s/he is infinitely smaller than a speck of sand in all the huge deserts or droplets of water in all the clouds on a small planet within a universe bigger than the self-centred, knows-it-all, speck of his/her lone world? There is no “time” or “times” at all for God to “keep up” with. The core of the Catholic Church and its apostolic teachings doesn’t have any “time” or “times” to “keep up with” either. Get with it, and its truth, please.

We haven't had an anti-Catholic headline from Irish Central in a day or two! What's going on? There is sure be one shortly. Their search engines are digging in obscure places even now! Our usual anti-Catholic posters must be in a frenzy, starving for some material! Surely there must be SOMETHING!

Cillowen - are you really that low, vile, disrespectful, uneducated and intolerant? Is it possible? I suppose so judging by your last comment. You are a disgrace.

Excellent! I'd always had an idea that when the Vatican iceberg might start to break up it might likely start to splinter in the New World. Them pesky independent over confident Yankees with their new newfangled ideas! The sinister Virgins will slowly come to realise it's the Vatican that's broken away and been left behind. Good riddance!

HA HA - If that was true she would have inspired him long ago. Unfortunately the Roman Catholic Church hierarchy are not inspired or inspiring; they are self serving, self righteous zealots who do not serve God or live by God's word, they have their own set of rules and maintain they don't answer to anybody. If they were truly men of God, they would have stopped the child abuse instead of perpetuating it by refuting the parents of the raped children, threatening them, moving the priests to new territory to repeat their crimes, denying the abuse when it was publicly exposed, not offering help to the victims, and even further to forcing the victims to court to obtain money because many were damaged to the point that they experienced mental health and physical problems that reduced or prevented them from working or leading productive lives. Although some non victims took advantage of the opportunity to cash in, there are many thousands who took their own lives or died long before the courts could act. I find it hard to believe that God inspired the Popes in days gone by to promote killing and plunder. The marching orders came from the Pope, not God. Put women in charge and the deceitfulness, dishonesty, and degradation of the church will disappear. Time to march for god and goodness, and not continue with the pedophiles and their protectors. The pedophile priests should be sent to prison, identified as child molesters and put in the general population. I'm sure they would enjoy it there.

The Catholic Church gets its "marching orders" from above, not as the result of popular opinion. If God wanted women as priests, the the Holy Spirit would inspire the Pope to make that change.

Why is the Catholic Church not keeping up with the times? Why would anyone believe the scriptures verbatim as written by men who enjoyed superiority over women and children and interpreted the written word as they understood it at the time. Just read the accounts of World War 1 or World War 2 as written by the different nations involved and in some cases it would seem the same war was an entirely different war. I haven't read the accounts of the religious wars but I suspect the writings are very different for the opposing sides. So I believe it is for the different faiths who have used the same stories for the basis of their religion, but ended up with very different policies for their faith. It is not the word of God that has put in place the differing "rules" for the various religions; it is the hierarchy of each faith who have made the rules to suit their interests. Although the Taliban have very strict rules in regard to females and are openly anti female to keep them subservient, the Catholic Church has more deviously kept the females in the church subservient through the development of the nuns. Where in God's word does it actually say the Roman Catholic Church shall make women nuns and their sole purpose is to serve the church in a subservient role? It is the men of the church who enjoy their privileged status and do not want to admit that women are equal. It is time for the parishioners of the Catholic Church around the world to stand up and hold the Vatican and the church hierarchy accountable and insist on equality for women in the church!!!

the altar is ideal for changing her baby's diaper - brilliant.

From the Vatican II encyclical Gaudiam et Spes (1965): 9. Where they have not yet won it, women claim for themselves an equality with men before the law and in fact.... 28. Respect and love ought to be extended also to those who think or act differently than we do in social, political and *even religious matters*. In fact, the more deeply we come to understand their ways of thinking through such courtesy and love, the more easily will we be able to enter into dialogue with them.... every type of discrimination, whether social or cultural, whether based on sex, race, color, social condition, language or religion, is to be overcome and eradicated as contrary to God's intent. For in truth it must still be regretted that fundamental personal rights are still not being universally honored." Gaudiam et Spes also quotes Psalm 8: "What are human beings that you are mindful of them, mortals, that you care for them? Yet you have made them a little lower than heavenly beings, and crowned them with glory and honor." To refuse to accept the God-given equal dignity of all humanity-- worse yet to pretend to accept it while excluding some by appeal to spurious "precious differences" of socially constructed gender roles-- is the corporate sin of Catholicism. There's nothing to do about it but finally to repent and change this sinful past.

Apr 30, 2011, 07:51 PM EDT Jacersagain, Eiriamach has known from an early age that obedience just isn't her cup of tea and, besides, she is a perennial renegade from authority. There's never been any nun material in that combination. Where'd you get such a weird idea? 'Reminds me of a first-grade story of my own. The nun was telling us how wonderful it was to be a priest, that it was the most blessed calling of all, that priests had the highest place in heaven, right next to God himself. Now, I knew very little about priests, but at the age of 6, I'd already learned the Great American Virtue of Competitiveness, and of course I wanted to be the best, so I raised my hand and asked, "Sister, how do I become a priest?" Well, the other children in the class were all giggling and mocking me because I didn't know the first thing, obviously, about priests, and it was a Catholic school. But I paid them no attention because my eyes were riveted on the face of that nun. It took her a few moments to recover her wits when she realized what she had done. Then she said ever so gently, "My dear, you can't be a priest--but you CAN be a nun! Nuns are close to God too!" I could not have put my thoughts into words at that age, but I knew then . . . second place is just fine if that's where you end up, but you don't spend a lifetime working for second place. So, Jacers, there was never any chance of my entering a convent.

Jacers, how many times have you and others leaped to the absurd conclusion that "it seems you have finally exposed yourself as a former Catholic (nun?) who is now a follower of the Episcopal Churches"? That kind of thinking says a great deal about you--all of it delusional. You are apparently oblivious to the harm done to the self-image of girls and women by archaic -- indeed pre-Christian and pagan -- attitudes toward women enforced within and advocated politically by the Catholic Church. More than a half-century ago, I went through the shock that all young girls experience in Catholicism, and more than a year ago I finally recounted that story for you so that you would STOP leaping to the conclusion that I must have been a nun once. I could never have been an RC nun, and I'll try to recap that story here to remind you of why. I do hope you'll give some thought to the unspoken part of that experience and develop some respect for women who take seriously the Gospel message of equal human worth.

With all the horrible things the german pope has done, you can be sure that he has filled the curia with like minded people. He is an absolutist sexist, gay hating etc etc etc. ............the church has he has most likely configured it will burn itself at the stake before letting women be equal............Find a new church or split off to a real church. in France for example only 5 % of the people go to church any more........the cry for Ireland has to be FREEDOM FROM ROME.

God love them, the geekiest video ever! Still, it probably strikes the fear of God into the Catholic hierarchy : )

Jacers beautifully defends the traditional Faith of the Church in relation the nature of the priesthood and and it is superfluous to add anything else.

Of course women should be priests, bishops, cardinals and even pope. Anything less is an outrage.