The World Needs Women Priests

[Hmm]

No.

Persuasive.

 

[pescador]

I am Catholic. I was addressing another member who identifies as Catholic. You Protestants do whatever you want.

No.

Thanks! We Protestants will do whatever seems right in the eyes of the Lord. We don't need some human hierarchy telling us what is acceptable to God and what isn't. The decision to ban women from the priesthood is a perfect example.

 

[thecolorsblend]

Thanks! We Protestants will do whatever seems right in the eyes of the Lord. We don't need some human hierarchy telling us what is acceptable to God and what isn't. The decision to ban women from the priesthood is a perfect example.

 

[Love365]

If they made an American version of the Vicar of Dibley,
who should be cast in it?

 

[Paidiske]

If they made an American version of the Vicar of Dibley, who should be cast in it?

Oh, Lord, please no. One version of that show was enough. Rev. came closer to being an honest account (although the main character was a guy).

I'd love to see someone make a TV show featuring a woman priest that wasn't ridiculous but actually showed some of what this is like; the joys and the heartaches, the struggles and the successes, the stresses and the grace.

 

[Love365]

Oh, Lord, please no. One version of that show was enough. Rev. came closer to being an honest account (although the main character was a guy).

I'd love to see someone make a TV show featuring a woman priest that wasn't ridiculous but actually showed some of what this is like; the joys and the heartaches, the struggles and the successes, the stresses and the grace.

The Vicar of Dibley has been off the air since the 1990s.
There should have been many TV shows about women priests,
on the BBC.
England doesn’t have TV shows about the Church of England?

Why is the BBC dragging their feet?

 

[bbbbbbb]

Oh, Lord, please no. One version of that show was enough. Rev. came closer to being an honest account (although the main character was a guy).

I'd love to see someone make a TV show featuring a woman priest that wasn't ridiculous but actually showed some of what this is like; the joys and the heartaches, the struggles and the successes, the stresses and the grace.

I agree entirely. The Vicar of Dibley was truly an outrageous parody. Christian ministry in any form is not a running joke.

 

[Love365]

I agree entirely. The Vicar of Dibley was truly an outrageous parody

Monty Python set the bar pretty high.

 

[bbbbbbb]

Monty Python set the bar pretty high.

Of course, that perspective changes when one is standing on one's head.

 

[Love365]

What actress could play a woman priest?

 

[Paidiske]

What actress could play a woman priest?

Well, given that women priests are young and old, of every race and class, and diverse in just about every other way, I'd say just about any actress except a child.

 

[Love365]

Well, given that women priests are young and old, of every race and class, and diverse in just about every other way, I'd say just about any actress except a child.

Emily Blunt, Melissa McCarthy, Sandra Bullock, Kate Beckinsale,
Lucy Liu, Jennifer Lopez, Amy Poehler, Tina Fey, Halle Berry,
Aisha Tyler, Olivia Munn

 

[Love365]

The Catholic Church in the United States is having a priest shortage.

The Catholic Church needs women priests.

 

[bbbbbbb]

The Catholic Church in the United States is having a priest shortage.

The Catholic Church needs women priests.

In actual truth, the needs of the Catholic Church today are far more than priests. That is the tip of the iceberg.

 

[Jonaitis]

The world needs women priests
to help women in poor countries get an education and jobs.

Jesus ordained two priests.
John the Baptist and Mary of Bethany.

Does the world need women priests?

I never understood why people call women "priest," and I think because the term "priestess" sounds pagan - and rightly so, for there was never a female priest in the Old Testament.

However, the apostle Paul made it clear that women are not allowed in the pulpit, nor serve in the same capacity with elders and pastors.

John the Baptist was a prophet, and Mary was a disciple.

 

[Paidiske]

I never understood why people call women "priest,"

Because that is what we are.

 

[Jonaitis]

Because that is what we are.

My argument stands, it would be properly a "priestess."

 

[Paidiske]

My argument stands, it would be properly a "priestess."

That is both unnecessary and demeaning in our context (and generally treated as flaming on CF).

 

[Jonaitis]

That is both unnecessary and demeaning in our context (and generally treated as flaming on CF).

It sounds more like you're offended and finding a reason to call it such.

 

[Paidiske]

It sounds more like you're offended and finding a reason to call it such.

If I'm offended, it's because "priestess" is generally used as a slur against ordained women. It is used both to imply that our ministry is somehow Pagan, and also to suggest that it is different from (and less than) the exact same ministry performed by men.