Gloria.TV News on the 15th of March 2017 Pope of Division: Fr. Ray Blake commented on the fourth anniversary of Pope Francis' election. Quote, "Wherever Jorge Bergoglio has been he has brought division …More
Gloria.TV News on the 15th of March 2017
Pope of Division: Fr. Ray Blake commented on the fourth anniversary of Pope Francis' election. Quote, "Wherever Jorge Bergoglio has been he has brought division, in the Society of Jesus, in Buenos Aires, and now in the Universal Church," and: "The Pontifex, the bridge maker, should be concerned about the internal unity and healing of the Church. Practically every week, Francis introduces yet another controversial issue."
Osservatore Anti-Romano: L'Osservatore Romano has published a strange article with the title, "Dismantling Clericalism. There Is a Need of a Profound Theology of the Woman" by the feminist writer Lucetta Scaraffia. She calls the Church a - quote - "institution stiffened in a male-only organization chart that does not include female intrusion whatsoever."
Reparation: This is a picture of the rosary that was said in reparation for the Anglican vespers that were sung simultaneously in Saint Peter's on March 13th. Many more Catholics in the whole world united themselves with those who were praying the rosary in Rome. The SSPX officially joint this initiative and celebrated a Holy Mass before the event.
Austerity: Eight months late, the Holy See has published its balance sheet for 2015. It shows a deficit of 12.4 million Euros, half of what it was in 2014. Pope Francis reached this goal through austerity measures, manly on the back of the employees. The Vatican has adopted a hiring freeze and does not renew part-time contracts. The five cardinals who form the commission that supervises the Vatican Bank no longer receive their annual 25.000 Euros.
Pope of Division: Fr. Ray Blake commented on the fourth anniversary of Pope Francis' election. Quote, "Wherever Jorge Bergoglio has been he has brought division, in the Society of Jesus, in Buenos Aires, and now in the Universal Church," and: "The Pontifex, the bridge maker, should be concerned about the internal unity and healing of the Church. Practically every week, Francis introduces yet another controversial issue."
Osservatore Anti-Romano: L'Osservatore Romano has published a strange article with the title, "Dismantling Clericalism. There Is a Need of a Profound Theology of the Woman" by the feminist writer Lucetta Scaraffia. She calls the Church a - quote - "institution stiffened in a male-only organization chart that does not include female intrusion whatsoever."
Reparation: This is a picture of the rosary that was said in reparation for the Anglican vespers that were sung simultaneously in Saint Peter's on March 13th. Many more Catholics in the whole world united themselves with those who were praying the rosary in Rome. The SSPX officially joint this initiative and celebrated a Holy Mass before the event.
Austerity: Eight months late, the Holy See has published its balance sheet for 2015. It shows a deficit of 12.4 million Euros, half of what it was in 2014. Pope Francis reached this goal through austerity measures, manly on the back of the employees. The Vatican has adopted a hiring freeze and does not renew part-time contracts. The five cardinals who form the commission that supervises the Vatican Bank no longer receive their annual 25.000 Euros.
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Lord Jesus, how much longer?
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Female, "intrusion." Interesting choice of words... 
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Osservatore Anti-Romano: A Catholic feminist writer? Immediately an androgynous, man-hating, bull-dyke comes to mind. But, with respect to Lucetta Scaraffia, she's not so easily categorized.
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“Scaraffia is no typical Catholic feminist, at least of the progressive sort. She strongly defends the Church’s basic position on artificial birth control, its stance on abortion, and on …More
Osservatore Anti-Romano: A Catholic feminist writer? Immediately an androgynous, man-hating, bull-dyke comes to mind. But, with respect to Lucetta Scaraffia, she's not so easily categorized.
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“Scaraffia is no typical Catholic feminist, at least of the progressive sort. She strongly defends the Church’s basic position on artificial birth control, its stance on abortion, and on many of the other fronts of the sexual revolution.
"She also regards the debate over women priests as a distraction, insisting, “The emancipation of women in the Church can, indeed must, be realized without passing through the priesthood.”
"So what would power without priesthood look like today? Scaraffia cites several possibilities.
1) Participation by women, both religious and ordinary laity, in the General Congregation meetings that precede the election of a pope.
2) Participation by women, again both religious and lay, in meetings of bishops’ conferences around the world.
3) Leadership by women in the departments of the Roman Curia within the Vatican.
4) More regular consultation by the Vatican of the International Union of Superiors General, the umbrella group for leaders of women’s religious orders. Although its headquarters is just a stone’s throw from the Vatican, Scaraffia notes with evident sarcasm that it’s a “merely topographical closeness,” and that in fact the “contacts between the Holy See and the association are practically null.”
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These points sound good to me and none of them have anything to do with priestly ordination. The fact that these issues have NOT been taken up in a serious way, therefore, may speak more to clericalism and ecclesiastical psychology than any limits imposed by Catholic doctrine.
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“Scaraffia is no typical Catholic feminist, at least of the progressive sort. She strongly defends the Church’s basic position on artificial birth control, its stance on abortion, and on many of the other fronts of the sexual revolution.
"She also regards the debate over women priests as a distraction, insisting, “The emancipation of women in the Church can, indeed must, be realized without passing through the priesthood.”
"So what would power without priesthood look like today? Scaraffia cites several possibilities.
1) Participation by women, both religious and ordinary laity, in the General Congregation meetings that precede the election of a pope.
2) Participation by women, again both religious and lay, in meetings of bishops’ conferences around the world.
3) Leadership by women in the departments of the Roman Curia within the Vatican.
4) More regular consultation by the Vatican of the International Union of Superiors General, the umbrella group for leaders of women’s religious orders. Although its headquarters is just a stone’s throw from the Vatican, Scaraffia notes with evident sarcasm that it’s a “merely topographical closeness,” and that in fact the “contacts between the Holy See and the association are practically null.”
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These points sound good to me and none of them have anything to do with priestly ordination. The fact that these issues have NOT been taken up in a serious way, therefore, may speak more to clericalism and ecclesiastical psychology than any limits imposed by Catholic doctrine.