It's not about salvation, grace or beauty, for when had you ever really believed in God, save perhaps as a child and then no more. This is about power and that you feel you've been cheated. Go ahead then, you can be the priestess of your own cult in the Irish Republic. No one's depriving you of that. Perhaps also, you have a desire to mar, disfigure and destroy that which is beautiful and of which you feel deprived. Go ahead then, the world is yours, revolutionary woman. You may have everything you desire, except salvation and even the feelings of exultation you feel you've gained in sacrilege will be a bitter disappointment.
[Irishtimes.com] ‘SHOCKING.” “A travesty.” “A slap in the face.” “The action of a paranoid, scared, running-for-cover Vatican.” Those are just some of the phrases used by Bishop Bridget Mary Meehan to describe the latest directive from Rome on the ordination of women.
The Vatican’s Normae de Gravioribus Delictis , published two weeks ago, concerns sanctions in canon law for clerical child sex abuse, concelebration of the Eucharist with Protestant ministers, heresy, apostasy, schism – and the ordination of women. It reaffirmed the sanction of excommunication for anyone involved with the ordination of women in the Catholic Church.
Bishop Bridget Mary Meehan is a leader of an ever-growing band of dissidents from this policy. She is “happy to be excommunicated. If they keep going like this there’ll soon be more ‘out’ than ‘in’. We’re at the heart of the church, renewing it. We’re not going to put up with second-class membership any more. We are an empowered community of Catholics. Mysticism and social justice are in my DNA as an Irish Catholic. I love the faith, but this corrupt church has to be reformed. Where are the excommunicated paedophiles or bishops who covered up the abuse of children?”
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