07/21/08

Well i know its a far jump to go from the wearing or anti wearing of makeup into the papacy, but hey. . . i'm full of surprises.

Any hoo i was sitting on a park bench with my cousin and brother like a trio of hobos this afternoon — It was rather satisfying to tell you the truth — and as we acted obnoxious in public we perused a news paper conveniently left on the bench for us. Gabe grabbed the sports section, Toby tacked the metro section, and i looked for the classifieds to no avail, leaving me with the front pages news. . . dreadful. I read a few things about the elections, which i'm really not interested in at all. I dont care, at this point i am equally unimpressed with both candidates and skeptical of their politics in general. But i'm not going to rant about that, i am far too disgusted at this point to rant, rather i sort of quietly feel sorrow and depression about the whole thing.

After these few quick blerbs i notticed some news from the vatican in the lower right hand corner. Apparently there is a group of women who call themselves Roman Catholic who plan to get "ordained" as priests. Makes my stomach turn. I'm not going to go in to the depths about the facts details and quotes about this in the church tradition and teaching and scripture about why women can't really be priests. I could but all that stuff bores me a little bit, honestly. What i know is that for 2000 years women were not accepted in to the priest hood. All over scripture it is evident that this is not what God wants for His church. In the Old Testiment God meticulsouly measured out His specifications for the priest hood, right down to the nitty gritty of how when and where they were to offer a sacrifice pleasing to God. Always the priests were men, never women.

The New Testament is the fulfillment of all that the Old Testament was leading to. None of the Apostles - the churches first priests ordained by Jesus Christ Himself, were women. Its historical, its documented and its tradition - meaning it is what we in the modern era have had handed down from generation to generation regarding the ways Our Lord wants the church to function.

Please, don't get me wrong i'm not hating on women here: Truly one of the most important human beings (accepting our Lord as he was truly human but truly divine due to the hypostatic union). Clearly, Jesus is tops, but when we consider the people that are just people and in no way Divine, the most important human in the whole drama and epic that is the creation and salvation of man kind is a woman. The Blessed Virgin Mary, to be exact. Women have always played a huge roll in the sanctity of the church, its just that God intended us to do it a different way than men. And i think thats only fair, i mean we are a different than men, so why should we expect to do things the exact same as them. In a lot of ways, it makes me sad that more women don't truly understand the dignity and beauty that is a woman in all of her feminine mystique. Thank you once again bra-burning man hating feminists, way to make life way more difficult on the real women of the world.

But again, i digress. I don't understand why so many modern people can insist on making up new things in the church that truly have never existed in the One Holy Catholic and Apostolic Church and pretend like they have anything to do with the church. Its pride and its silly, and its causing this world great harm.

I was pleased to see that our current Pope Benedict XVI has already stated that any women who attempt to be Ordained as priests will be excommunicated. I'm sure the make believing women won't care that they are excommunicated, but i am glad that His Holiness is once again standing up for The Church and all that she is. . . .even if its against current popular thought. Thank goodness that the Pope knows that current popular thought doesnt hold a candle to the thought and understanding which has lasted for over 2000 years.

So thats what i thought about on my way home from hobo time.