Pope Francis' Catholic church reform process ends without giving more equity to women
Pope Francis' Catholic church reform process ends without giving more equity to women
Pope Francis’ yearslong process to reform the Catholic Church has ended with recommendations that fall far short of giving women more equity as hoped.
If anyone was hoping for women priests, give up on that. The Roman Catholic church would first have to retract both papal infallibility and ecumenical infallibility.
They have made too many definitive statements that women can't be priests, and they have made definitive statements that their definitive statements are infallible, and must be agreed to by anyone who calls themself Catholic. It's not even up for debate (unless all of the infallibility stuff is also up for debate).
For example:
I declare that the Church has no authority whatsoever to confer priestly ordination on women and that this judgment is to be definitively held by all the Church's faithful.
They really painted themselves into a corner. While the rest of society moves forward with equal rights for historically marginalized groups, the Catholic church will be stuck with the effects of their early bad decisions (and some recent bad decisions) because they banned themselves from admitting when they are wrong.
Eh they could do whatever they want. They could declare that "the point in time has been reached that god wanted women to be able to be priests from. His plan has always been that women were not allowed to be priests until a certain date had passed, and now that date has arrived."
When protestants started the logical stance that the bread and wine is a metaphor being used in the Eucharist, Catholics stayed with saying it is a ritual that transformed the bread and wine to having christs blood and body imbued into them, like an act of magic performed with superhuman abilities, not people just worshipping him. If they would choose to say cannibalism is terrible, except when we do it, I cant see the stubbornness lapsing when it came to say women can suddenly perform magic after a certain date. But who knows, crazier things have happened in life.
I mean, a lot of people already hate the dude. There are catholics out there who already refuse to call him the pope.
Now imaginenig he just came out one day and said, yeah everything the previous pope's said may have been wrong. But I know what ir right so now listen to me.
Won't go down well
That's a Hell of a background they decided on for that photo
https://publicdelivery.org/fazzini-resurrection/ massive intimidating sculpture that the pope sits in front of when he meets with people
Jesus out there lookin like a C’tan shard
Was just thinking - why does the Catholic Church have one of the C’tan captured - but then again that would probably explain a whole lot.
It looks like something out of Dark Souls
Lack of equality is why I left the church in my youth. I have way more reasons to never rejoin now, but this feels way too little way too late.
How fun. I was just talking to my daughter about how incredibly sexist the Catholic Church is yesterday.
She said that someone she was talking to online excused the 'women must not speak in church' part of the New Testament as saying that makes nuns possible. So since she knows basically nothing about Catholicism, I explained to her the major power imbalance between priests and nuns and how the patriarchal structure of the Catholic Church will keep it that way for the foreseeable future.
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