The MuuMuu Militia© strikes again and this time they are trying to take some European Bishops with them.
The Baltimore Examiner has a typical article about how the priestesses turned-out in togas have begin their own congregation at a local protestant church. It tries, to some degree, to present the Catholic view on the sham, but that is not what I want to focus on. It was this section that caught my eye.
“We didn’t just ordain ourselves,” said Andrea Johnson of Annapolis, who was ordained in 2007 by South African Catholic Bishop Patricia Fresen, a former Dominican nun. “There are Roman Catholic bishops in good standing with the Vatican in Europe who wanted this to happen and who ordain women.”
The Catholic Church said it has no authority to ordain women because they say Jesus only selected men as apostles. It considers those who do so to be automatically excommunicated.
Neither Johnson nor Catonsville resident Gloria Carpeneto, a spiritual guidance counselor who said she was ordained earlier this year in Boston by Roman Catholic Womenpriests, USA Bishop Dana Reynolds, would reveal the names of the European bishops who oppose the Vatican’s prohibition.
Obviously, if any Catholic Bishop were to do something so silly they would automatically be excommunicated, so their good-standing is questionable.
But I can’t help but wonder, are they simply lying (likely given the fraud that is their existence) or are there really Catholic Bishops who are that far of the reservation?
December 22, 2008 at 5:04 am
The thing I love about the picture: they apparently offer a choice of white or red wine (grape juice?)
December 22, 2008 at 8:08 am
And not a maniple or biretta to be seen. What’s to bet that some of these ladies either married, or somewhat “sapphic” in their predilictions. Hey, if you’re going to break one rule, ya might as wall break them all, as the fornicator said to the pharmacist…
December 22, 2008 at 8:10 am
Actually, the one holding the giant beer-stein looks like a definite candidate for residency on the isle of Lesbos…
December 22, 2008 at 8:26 am
I have noticed that not one of the women are wearing a chasable. Seems like a small things, since they are after all not priests. This is indicative of their attitude though. The chasable has always been the symbol of charity (caritas), so that charity covers all. Instead these women put forth the stole, which is the symbol of authority. They do not care about feminism, nor advancing women. They only care about advancing their own volitions.
December 22, 2008 at 9:37 am
At first glance, I thought it was some sort of cookery club…
😉
December 22, 2008 at 1:44 pm
Is that ‘altar cloth’ something from Target’s 90% off after Christmas sale?
December 22, 2008 at 2:34 pm
Poor old dears. They just don’t get it — Woodstock is closed.
— Mack
December 22, 2008 at 3:30 pm
I assume that they are blessing their upcoming tupperware parties; and that they especially need a heterodox Catholic bishop…I believe that there is one bending that way in Great Britain and a couple of elderly excellencies here…to market the sales to the dumb and the gullible.
There are also some “pastoral” assistant nuns of about the same age as these former Howdy Doody fans in this area that are dying to get in on pitching holy tupperware.
It’s a sign of the times…”heterodoxy chic” and will fade out with the last clown standing a pride parade.
December 22, 2008 at 4:38 pm
If this is a discrimination issue then where are all the men knocking on the door to the convents? I’ve yet to hear that a man is upset because he can’t become a nun. Men get on board! These ‘women’ apparently only care about thier own discrimination. Shame on them 🙂
December 22, 2008 at 7:34 pm
These women have such a warped view of Catholicism to think that women are being put down or oppressed in the LEAST. Jesus was a man, so I guess that makes God a sexist right? let’s protest! Some women can’t conceive children. Let’s file a lawsuit against God for infringing on their “rights.” Not everyone is the same, and not everyone is called to the same vocation. It has NOTHING to do with civil rights or any such nonsense. If these women want to be “priests” they should go form their own religion and respect the right of faithful catholics to practice theirs.
A lie repeated a hundred times does not become the truth.
December 23, 2008 at 1:29 am
They could lend themselves a lot of (misguided) credibility by following the GIRM better. The picnic table and the table cloth only reinforce their appearance as renegades. If you want people to believe that you are able to fill the role, you need to look like the role! (This goes for validly ordained male priests too!)
December 23, 2008 at 2:41 am
Anon, that’s probably right. we need the fabled “Traddie Womanpriest” with baroque chausable, biretta, maniple, celebrating ad orietam! Thing is, the only people who will let them use their things are radical prots and ultra liberal Jews – and none of them have the proper accoutrements for saying Mass.
December 23, 2008 at 3:27 am
There is just so much wrong with this “ceremony” it’s hard to put into words. Besides the “beer stein” and “altar cloth” pointed out by Anon and Ellyn, the plastic “chalice” at the center is priceless. The Shlotzsky’s “hosts” on the makeshift altar should be loaded with turkey and guacamole, not consecrated. And the non-matching candles on either side of the picnic altar were either plucked from the dumpster behind Pier One or were the third and fourth runners-up from a 2nd grade art fair.
December 23, 2008 at 1:15 pm
I guess what concerns me the most out of this entire story is the people that are a part of it. Do these people REALLY believe that they are doing the right thing, and does that give them an exemption from Hell? I know I am not the one to judge, nor am I, but I beleive that deep down, we all know when we are doing something fundamentally wrong. These people on some level have to know they are being disobedient. Even if there conscience does not warn them, then logic alone has to kick in. I guess I just don’t get it. If you don’t like the fact that women can’t be priests in the Catholic church, then for crying out loud, go somewhere else.
December 23, 2008 at 8:41 pm
Honestly, if these women are so committed to the Catholic Church, you would think they would follow its teachings. If your parents tell you explicitly not to do something and you deliberately disobey, you are acting selfishly and without regard for others. How is disobeying the Church any different? And how can any of these women TRULY say they love the church if they are deliberately and selfishly disobeying??
December 24, 2008 at 9:27 am
The One on the far right is the “South African” they talk of: she was my mom’s principal at Catholic School: very strict on homework.
Sad, and revolting that our faith should be mocked, that they disobey like that: and call themselves an authority.
Mind you, in SA, allot goes, luckily that one didn’t pass:)!
Just attended a service at the third biggest parish in Johannesburg Sunday: priest gave a “general absolution”
December 25, 2008 at 4:07 am
I just wonder how feasible it would be to protest these protestant churches that give aid and comfort to these loonies. If the sodomites are out protesting those churches that supported Prop 8 in California, why not oppose this form of “hate speech”?