The headline says, “Church law won’t stop Pismo woman’s dream,” about a woman who thinks she’s going to be ordained a Catholic priest. If I said I wanted to become a biological mother, i.e. I was going to conceive a child naturally and bear him to birth, would the newspaper print the headline, “Law of nature won’t stop Salem man’s dream.” Well, they probably would, but it would be just as ridiculous. Merlene Doko is going through a sham ritual in Pittsburgh on July 31 pretending to be ordained a priest.
No matter what this woman does or think she’s doing, she’s not going to be a Catholic priest. It can’t happen. Just like there is no way for me to become a woman. Oh, I could pretend, dress up in women’s clothes, and even go through self-mutilating surgery to have facsimiles of women’s genitalia inserted. But that wouldn’t change the essence of who I am. No matter what I do, my DNA would remain the same. I would still have one X and one Y chromosome. And even if scientists develop some kind of bizarre “Star Trek” gene therapy to change even that, I will remain who I am ontologically.
Also note how the woman’s decision to be ordained is phrased:
“The heart of me is so centered in the heart of God, I feel this is part of what I am meant to do in my life,” Doko said. “It’s who I am in my journey; not only to be Catholic but a Catholic woman priest.”
Who is this all about? It’s about Merlene. It’s not about service to others, not even an authentic call from God (which, incidentally, comes through His Church), but it’s about what she has decided she’s going to do.
Doko, 63, is part of an international organization called Roman Catholic Womenpriests. The group, which gained attention in 2002 when a sympathetic male bishop ordained seven women in Europe, wants to work within the church to bring about full equality for women.
Again, here is the reporter taking this group’s claims uncritically. She just accepts it as fact that the women do not have full equality in the Church. Of course the Church’s teaching has to be presented for evenhandedness, but whose version of that teaching is she using? It sounds suspiciously like something Womenpriests would say.
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As if Bp. Wuerl’s successor (or even the interim administrator of the diocese) wouldn’t have the power to undertake canonical action.
Already the diocesan spokesman issued a warning against participating in the ceremony or even attending it as an expression of support.
The reporter apparently accepted the women’s (or is that “womyn’s”?) claim that they were ordained by a sympathetic male bishop.
In point of fact, they were not. Just as I cannot say the words of institution over fig bars and apple juice and effect transubstantiation, neither can a bishop (sympathetic or not) say or do anything to confer Holy Order upon a female—the ‘matter’ (or ‘res’) is not capable of receiving the ontological change.
As has often been said, anyone can SAY that ordination happened, but that doesn’t change the reality.
I was privileged to be at the great Atlanta Eucharistic Congress yesterday. Three from women priests or one of the related sisterhoods were there trying to get into Mass procession with the 4 bishops, 100+ priests and 50+ deacons and 50+ seminarians in attendance. Of course, they were turned firmly and politely away. One of the black t-[expletive] and purple stoled ladies cornered me at the end of Mass (as I was directing security to halt their progress in the entrance procession).
I politely informed them that the dress for concelebrating priests today was white and that black t-shirts and purple stoles were liturgically incorrect and a distraction to the faithful. Accordingly, they were invited to participate in the Mass but could not concelebrate (just like the priests that forgot their albs, stoles, etc.).
Of course, my wink, nod and heartfelt sincerity was fully engaged. My heart breaks for those so attached to their schisms and heresy that they call them rights. They were really a pathetic and sad lot, appearing more like a sad caricature rather than appearing as a women or a priest. Every year they show up somewhere and produce blurred photos of themselves all grey and strange looking having hands laid upon them by everyone but my dog Opus, thinking that this wave of the future.
Make no mistake, it is all about them and their hyperinflated perception of their abilities and callings/
Franklin? What *are* you talking about?