There will never be women priests

alphabeat · 12-11-2012 12:32PM #1

http://www.independent.ie/national-news/there-will-never-be-any-women-priests-insists-papal-nuncio-3291011.html

he he 'Dr Brown ' says so .

HowAreWe · 12-11-2012 12:42PM

Great input there OP.

JohnMarston · 12-11-2012 12:43PM

Im in favour of them

jester77 · 12-11-2012 12:44PM

Would there even be any women that would want to

Duggy747 · 12-11-2012 12:46PM

Because male priests have had a clean record so far.......

Franticfrank · 12-11-2012 12:46PM

That would be an ecumenical matter.

RikkFlair · 12-11-2012 12:46PM

What about Fr. Sinead O'Connor?

Penn · 12-11-2012 12:46PM

Yeah, in a few years when the number of priests decrease so much and there are priests serving different parishes on different weekends, then we'll start to see women priests, married priests, gay priests, dog priests, atheist priests etc.

Ah who am I kidding, the church will never change anything. To change one thing is to invite calls to change other things. The church would rather die out than compromise.

seamus · 12-11-2012 12:47PM

jester77 wrote: »

Would there even be any women that would want to

Thousands of them.

Women are carrying the Catholic church. If it wasn't for mammies and grannies guilting their children into going to mass, the catholic church would have disappeared in ireland 30 years ago.

I say more of this sort of thing. Eventually educated women will come to their senses and stop supporting a religion which defines them as second-class citizens.

Sin City · 12-11-2012 12:48PM

Lets do away with priests, cardinals bishops popes and religion all together

Immaculate Pasta · 12-11-2012 12:49PM

Penn wrote: »

Yeah, in a few years when the number of priests decrease so much and there are priests serving different parishes on different weekends, then we'll start to see women priests, married priests, gay priests, dog priests, atheist priests etc.

Ah who am I kidding, the church will never change anything. To change one thing is to invite calls to change other things. The church would rather die out than compromise.

I for one would like to see this.

Fr. Fido, Parish priest for Ballygobackwards

"Aah how's it going father. How you feelin'?"

"Woof"

"Aah were you on a mad session last night were ya?"

:cool:

suicide_circus · 12-11-2012 12:52PM

Meh , their club - their rules. Don't see why any of the atheist church bashers in here would feel like they should have any opinion or input on the matter. Except of course to use it as another stick to hit the church with.

syklops · 12-11-2012 12:54PM

there will never be Catholic women priests

FYP OP.

syklops · 12-11-2012 12:55PM

suicide_circus wrote: »

Except of course to use it as another stick to hit the church with.

Because the church has never hit anyone on here with a stick.

SEPT 23 1989 · 12-11-2012 12:55PM

Its their loss

Ottway · 12-11-2012 12:56PM

Trick question / statement as they'll be Priestesses.

jimmycrackcorm · 12-11-2012 12:57PM

syklops wrote: »

Because the church has never hit anyone on here with a stick.

Unless of course you attended a Christian Brothers school

rednik · 12-11-2012 12:58PM

The sermons are already long enough.;)

PlainP · 12-11-2012 12:59PM

suicide_circus wrote: »

Meh , their club - their rules. Don't see why any of the atheist church bashers in here would feel like they should have any opinion or input on the matter. Except of course to use it as another stick to hit the church with.

Well the church have used enough sticks to beat helpless children for years so at least ours are just metaphorical sticks.

suicide_circus · 12-11-2012 12:59PM

syklops wrote: »

Because the church has never hit anyone on here with a stick.

Oh did the priest beat you at school ? Sure no secular teacher ever issued corporal punishment back in the day don't ye know. Cry me a river.

syklops · 12-11-2012 01:08PM

suicide_circus wrote: »

Oh did the priest beat you at school ? Sure no secular teacher ever issued corporal punishment back in the day don't ye know. Cry me a river.

I didnt get beaten, but I know plenty who were and worse.

Your lack of empathy might have surprised me years ago, but having heard over the weekend that according to Benedict Groeschel, Reverend of the Franciscan Friars of Renewal, when speaking about the churches involvement in alleged abuse, that it was often the case that priests were seduced by teenagers., your contempt for anyone who appears against the church no longer surprises me.

suicide_circus · 12-11-2012 01:31PM

I am agnostic, non catholic, non mass goer so my "lack of empathy" is due to the unbalanced and lazy approach to commenting on the church which is the norm today. When it was acceptable for teachers and clergy to beat kids, it was also normal for parents to beat kids. There is very little context given in any retrospective analysis of the church. It wasnt all laundies and songs for raggy boys but that view isnt too poplar.

Death and Taxes · 12-11-2012 01:34PM

suicide_circus wrote: »

Oh did the priest beat you at school ? Sure no secular teacher ever issued corporal punishment back in the day don't ye know. Cry me a river.

I dont know if that is trolling or just highly insensitive, but either way it is supremely insensitive bearing in mind the thousands of Irish children tortured, beaten, and raped in establishments run by the RCC, not to mention all those killed in such places.
Very very sad.

syklops · 12-11-2012 01:39PM

suicide_circus wrote: »

I am agnostic, non catholic, non mass goer so my "lack of empathy" is due to the unbalanced and lazy approach to commenting on the church which is the norm today. When it was acceptable for teachers and clergy to beat kids, it was also normal for parents to beat kids. There is very little context given in any retrospective analysis of the church. It wasnt all laundies and songs for raggy boys but that view isnt too poplar.

Speaking of a lazy approach to commenting, your previous comments make you come across as a church sympathiser.

RGDATA! · 12-11-2012 01:41PM

in before "papal nonce-io"

Madam_X · 12-11-2012 01:41PM

suicide_circus wrote: »

I am agnostic, non catholic, non mass goer so my "lack of empathy" is due to the unbalanced and lazy approach to commenting on the church which is the norm today. When it was acceptable for teachers and clergy to beat kids, it was also normal for parents to beat kids. There is very little context given in any retrospective analysis of the church. It wasnt all laundies and songs for raggy boys but that view isnt too poplar.

Some fair points - however it really was not necessary to word your post in such an unpleasant, provocative, hard-hearted way.

"Cry me a river" is a phrase to dismiss those whinging about trivial stuff, not something major like child abuse.

suicide_circus wrote: »

Meh , their club - their rules. Don't see why any of the atheist church bashers in here would feel like they should have any opinion or input on the matter.

Be nice if they could be consistent when it came to their rules. Yawn at "atheist" as a perjorative. The "openminded" atheist backlash can be a bit of a pain in the hole at times tbh. Ok, fair enough when it comes to the genuinely arrogant, condescending ones, but sometimes any atheist at all gets attacked in here simply for being atheist.

Ellis Dee · 12-11-2012 01:44PM

Penn wrote: »

The church would rather die out than compromise.

And far be it from me to stand in its way if that is what it wants to do.:rolleyes::rolleyes:

syklops · 12-11-2012 01:48PM

jester77 wrote: »

Would there even be any women that would want to

Being a priest would be a dream job for many women.

Get paid to speak at length on whatever subject fascinates you at the time
free dress
Communal wafers are very slimming
Often being the centre of attention
Get invited to all the parties, stations of the cross, weddings, funerals etc
Free house
Errrr....

suicide_circus · 12-11-2012 01:49PM

Madam_X wrote: »

Some fair points - however it really was not necessary to word your post in such an unpleasant, provocative, hard-hearted way.

"Cry me a river" is a phrase to dismiss those whinging about trivial stuff, not something major like child abuse.

Ok maybe i was a little harsh. I condemn all atrocities against children by the church . But these atrocities were committed with pretty much full collusion of the state and GENERAL POPULATION.

moose_shooter · 12-11-2012 01:51PM

syklops wrote: »

Speaking of a lazy approach to commenting, your previous comments make you come across as a church sympathiser.

the above comment reads like an accusation against someone for being a nazi or communist sympathiser

gozunda · 12-11-2012 01:52PM

It's the lack of logic of male only celibate priests in the RCC that cracks me up...

You have to have goolies to become a priest BUT you are not allowed (ahem) to use them.....

Unless of course you are a peadophile and then the RCC will just deny everything and claim it was nothing to do with them....

Time the RCC took stock of itself and gave some thought to the denial of sexuality, depravity and outright sexism inherent in the organisation

It is of note that it was only in the Middle Ages that priests were forbidden to marry and the right of women to hold independent positions of responsibility within the church was completely removed.

This medieval mindset will not be changed until all these fckers are dead and buried imo....

There will never be women priests

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