Wednesday, September 01, 2010

Female catholic priest ordained in Phoenix

The Ecumenical Catholic Communion ordained Elaine Groppenbacher as a priest.

Vatican condemnation be damned, on Saturday Elaine Groppenbacher became the forth female to be ordained a Catholic priest in the Phoenix area.

Groppenbacher was ordained into the priesthood by the Ecumenical Catholic Communion, considered to be a more liberal branch of the Catholic church. She received her holy orders from valley Bishop Peter Hickman.

What do you call at female Catholic priest, mother?

The ordination of women is seen as a step toward healing the problems created by the all male clergy and their propensity to molest children.

In recent years, the Catholic Church has experienced a dramatic drop in membership, believed to be caused in great part by a spate of recent sex scandals within the clergy, as well as the church’s unwillingness to recognize women as ecumenical equals.

No word yet on when the Vatican hit squads roll into town.

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Raytheist 108p · 771 weeks ago

As I understand it, the American Catholic Church will also ordain woman as well as married men. ACC does not submit itself to Vatican rule and doesn't follow the Pope. Apparently there are several up-and-coming Catholic denominations apart from the Roman Catholic Church. Bravo to them.
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Adam · 763 weeks ago

I can see that women would want to be come clergy in the church, but the fact is that they shouldn't. When we talk about the church we talk about it as a "she". We refer to it as the "Bride of Christ". Christ the patient groom waits at the end of the walkway for his bride, every one of us in the church. As we become Priest, we are becoming, in a sense Christ, Alter Christi, or "the other christ" in which we give our lives, we make a sacrifice and become joined as one with the church. The male clergy, who is Priest, becomes, in essence married to the Church, "The Bride of Christ", who is female. Male and Female, as God intended. There is a reason why the church has made law that men should not be married and that women should not be clergy. It is because the church is sacred, it is the Bride of Christ and when you become a Priest you are taking on the role of taking care of Christ's Bride until the time when he returns to judge us all. I do not agree with women becoming clergy for this reason, it is not sexist, it is not inequality it is the fact that Male and Female is how God made the relationship. Not female/female or male/male. The divinity of God's love is shown when a Priest becomes ordained and thus married to the church and takes care of her as if she was his own. All have a role inside of the beautiful church that Christ has given us, and women as Priests is not one of them.
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raytheist · 763 weeks ago

Adam, I can say that your explanation is probably the clearest I've ever read as to "why" the Roman Catholic Church does what it does. I still disagree, of course, and recognize that many Christian denominations do not view the church in the same way. Those without such black-and-white restrictions are (and should be) free to behave in accordance with their own understanding/interpretation of the Bible.

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