Once again, hopeless votes for the ordination of women in the church of Rome

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Once again a female voice rose from the Catholic ranks calling for the ordination of women in the Roman Catholic Church. Another run against a concrete wall. In view of the statement made, with a protective helmet on his head, aware of the hopelessness.

Women’s rights activists don’t give up

The calls for women’s ordination in the Roman Catholic Church continue. If it doesn’t work directly, then use arguments. “Hope dies last,” says a well-known German saying. Unfortunately, things are rarely thought through to the end, because dying last is also dying. But the Catholic theologian Dorothea Sattler is positive that there could be a priesthood for women in the future. After all, the Catholic Church has an outdated image of women (Source).

Sattler lacked the imagination to imagine that coherent arguments could not lead to the goal, as she herself states. Dorothea Sattler is considered a pioneer for women to have equal rights with men within the Catholic Church. All that would remain is persuasion by the priests and ultimately the decision of the bishops.

Francis says “Nope!”

Pope Francis has a clear attitude towards the ordination of women. A simple and straightforward “No.” The pontiff repeated this several times in conversations with journalists and on his own initiative. According to the theologian, however, a paradox prevails in the church, which is led exclusively by men. Many leading men in the Roman Catholic Church are of the opinion that women are not discriminated against at all. Instead, they are highly praised and respected because of their “feminine” characteristics.

However, it is men who define what is praiseworthy and what is not. This included care and devotion for offspring or nursing care. In order for the church to be renewed, it needs talents and characteristics that many women naturally display, such as the strong ability to communicate, empathy and sensitivity.

Statement from Catholic guardians of the faith

The statement about the possible path to the ordination of women in the Roman Catholic Church is somehow reminiscent of Cardinal Marx’s empty cartridge cases. Lots of wind, but that’s about it. At least there were no “conclusive arguments” there, just general phrases.

What quality of resistance must the inventors of “coherent arguments” expect? In this regard, the former Prefect of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, Luis F. Ladaria SJ, has published a statement on the “Doctrine of Ordinatio sacerdotalis”. This was on May 29, 2018. So still relatively “hot off the press” (Quelle).

In this letter, Ladaria announces, among other things, the following:
“Concerning the ministerial priesthood, the Church recognizes that the impossibility of ordaining women belongs to the “substance of the sacrament” of Orders (cf. DH 1728). The Church does not have the power to change this substance, because it is precisely from the sacraments, instituted by Christ, that the Church is made“

That sounds “fundamental” and especially as an unchangeable condition. Ultimately, according to the statement, the exclusion of women from church offices is based on a decision by Christ. The church itself is the body of Christ and it is therefore completely impossible for women to ever hold an office, let alone a priesthood.

Whichever “Christ” is meant

Who is referred to as “Christ” here is a different matter. It is very, very likely that the “anointed one” means the one who is usually represented as a sun disk shrouded in rays (Info). In this “cultural circle” it is determined that the priest of the seventh degree is entitled to have supervision over a congregation, to wear a mithraic headgear and a long cloak, to hold a shepherd’s staff in his hand and to point his finger to decorate with a ring. In these circles women are completely excluded.

The really worrying thing, however, is the carelessness of some Catholic believers. Ladaria’s statement was addressed on social media and was commented on as follows:
“Ladaria defends men’s claim to power over women with many words. But that’s all the argument is built on quicksand.“

Quicksand or not. Ladaria is not just any jack-of-all-trades. At the time of his testimony, he was the head of this church’s “Faith Center and Monitoring Department.” Formerly also called the Inquisition. Ladaria is also a Jesuit. If the author of this comment’s assumption is actually correct, then the thinking should not simply be stopped at this point. If it was a matter of defending men’s claim to power over women, then this was done in the “name of Christ”.

carefreeness of the sheep

All alarm bells should actually be ringing here, because this would clearly be a misuse of God’s name. A commandment that the Roman Church even retained in its interpretation (Info).

A blatant and, above all, cultivated violation of God’s commandment and this on an official level. Shouldn’t the thought then at least arise as to whether the “religious elite” in this church might basically be like that and have completely different things on their minds? But questioning it like that would probably be too much of a good thing and possibly also inappropriate against the church law of unconditional obedience to the church.

Every person is fully responsible for the search for truth. Nobody can claim that they said it one way or another. The truth is not to be found in the Catholic catechism, but in the Gospel, the book that is rarely used in Catholic religious education at school.

This renewed, repeatedly contentless appeal for the consecration of women is more likely to be seen as “opium for the people” or “incense for the sheep” than a serious new attempt to enforce any kind of equality. It is simply hopeless. But the time will come when many women will certainly be happy that they did not hold a priestly position in this church. Here the chances of leaving in time with the knowledge of the truth (Revelation 18:4) would be much higher.

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