Bless the Poor and the Rich

[RileyG]

In some countries becoming a nun
is seen as a retirement community.

Allowing women priests would likely get younger women involved,
because they work with families and the public more.

Again, won’t happen.

 

[Angeldove97]

All girls schools need women priests as teachers.

Women’s prisons also need women priests as teachers.

Why that specific gender and/or sex? God will call those who are meant to serve into those positions - their gender/sex has nothing to do with it.

 

[Angeldove97]

There has been a shortage since WWII. It's a fact.

The number of women religious has gone down DRASTICALLY after Vatican II.

Again, won’t happen.

But it has happened - there are female priests in the Christian faith. Just not specifically Catholic or Orthodox. God will call who He wants.

 

[RileyG]

But it has happened - there are female priests in the Christian faith. Just not specifically Catholic or Orthodox. God will call who He wants.

Correct. The OP was referring to the Catholic Church, not Protestant sects.

 

[Love365]

Why that specific gender and/or sex? God will call those who are meant to serve into those positions - their gender/sex has nothing to do with it.

New thread in Bridge Builders forum

 

[RileyG]

New thread in Bridge Builders forum

What does that have to do with the price of tea in China?

 

[Love365]

?

 

[Love365]

What does that have to do with the price of tea in China?

Will the price of coffee go up?

 

[RileyG]

Will the price of coffee go up?

Perhaps!

 

[FireDragon76]

Correct. The OP was referring to the Catholic Church, not Protestant sects.

Just FWIW, we prefer to be called denominations, not sects. Sect mighty imply a certain narrow claim to exclusivity that we don't recognize. Most historic Protestant churches recognize the validity of each others baptism and ministry.

 

[RileyG]

Just FWIW, we prefer to be called denominations, not sects. Sect mighty imply a certain narrow claim to exclusivity that we don't recognize. Most historic Protestant churches recognize the validity of each others baptism and ministry.

Thank you. I tend to use sects and denominations interchangeably. I meant no offense by that, my apologies!

 

[FireDragon76]

Thank you. I tend to use sects and denominations interchangeably. I meant no offense by that, my apologies!

When people say "sect", I tend to think of stuff like the Plymouth Brethren or some of the Stone-Campebellite / Church of Christ groups that believe everybody but them are going to Hell, often for the most trivial reasons.

 

[David Lamb]

When people say "sect", I tend to think of stuff like the Plymouth Brethren or some of the Stone-Campebellite / Church of Christ groups that believe everybody but them are going to Hell, often for the most trivial reasons.

Not wishing to take the thread off-topic, but I must say that I have never heard Plymouth Brethren claim that everybody but them are going to Hell.

 

[FireDragon76]

Not wishing to take the thread off-topic, but I must say that I have never heard Plymouth Brethren claim that everybody but them are going to Hell.

You may be right.. there are different sects or denominations of Plymouth Brethren. Here in the US, they tend to be very hard edged and sectarian.

 

[David Lamb]

You may be right.. there are different sects or denominations of Plymouth Brethren. Here in the US, they tend to be very hard edged and sectarian.

Thanks - I should have added the phrase, "Here in the UK......."

 

[RileyG]

You may be right.. there are different sects or denominations of Plymouth Brethren. Here in the US, they tend to be very hard edged and sectarian.

Ah, I think I’m confusing them with Church of the Brethren, which is anabaptist.

I’m not too familiar with Plymouth Brethren, apparently they aren’t that big in number.

 

[FireDragon76]

I’m not too familiar with Plymouth Brethren, apparently they aren’t that big in number.

Not big but highly influential.

They come from Ireland and the west of England, from the British Puritan tradition of low church Anglicanism. They tended to have very anti-Catholic views. Some were pious people that focused on social work, like running orphanages, but in the US they just tend to be small, isolationist, fundamentalist sects. The Rapture doctrine comes from out of the Plymouth Brethren in the 19th century, and spread into American Fundamentalism/Evangelicalism.

 

[RileyG]

Not big but highly influential.

They come from Ireland and the west of England, from the British Puritan tradition of low church Anglicanism. They tended to have very anti-Catholic views. Some were pious people that focused on social work, like running orphanages, but in the US they just tend to be small, isolationist, fundamentalist sects. The Rapture doctrine comes from out of the Plymouth Brethren in the 19th century, and spread into American Fundamentalism/Evangelicalism.

Ah, very interesting. I don’t think there is any in my area.