Comments on: Difficulties: Secunda Pars http://blog.ipsissima-verba.org/archives/302 Truth and the God of Truth encountered. Wed, 07 Jan 2009 02:54:07 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.7 hourly 1 By: Mom http://blog.ipsissima-verba.org/archives/302/comment-page-1#comment-5023 Mom Sat, 17 Nov 2007 03:05:21 +0000 http://blog.ipsissima-verba.org/archives/302#comment-5023 I'll have to take your altar servers' training first. I’ll have to take your altar servers’ training first.

]]> By: Dylan http://blog.ipsissima-verba.org/archives/302/comment-page-1#comment-4982 Dylan Thu, 15 Nov 2007 15:28:25 +0000 http://blog.ipsissima-verba.org/archives/302#comment-4982 I honestly agree that it's very hard to understand why women cannot become priests. It took me awhile to understand it, and it requires undoing a lot of cultural damage, which we're often unaware of. I suppose that the confusion arises partly from legitimate progress made regarding the status of women which has gone astray. Certainly, things like contraception and abortion do not improve the status of women in society, though we often treat them that way. Mom, if you want to serve Mass for me some day ... I probably won't be able to refuse you. :) I honestly agree that it’s very hard to understand why women cannot become priests. It took me awhile to understand it, and it requires undoing a lot of cultural damage, which we’re often unaware of.

I suppose that the confusion arises partly from legitimate progress made regarding the status of women which has gone astray. Certainly, things like contraception and abortion do not improve the status of women in society, though we often treat them that way.

Mom, if you want to serve Mass for me some day … I probably won’t be able to refuse you. :)

]]> By: Mom http://blog.ipsissima-verba.org/archives/302/comment-page-1#comment-4972 Mom Thu, 15 Nov 2007 06:04:57 +0000 http://blog.ipsissima-verba.org/archives/302#comment-4972 I, like the brother, anticipated your blog entry on the attempted "ordination" of two women and was not disappointed. First of all, I was that little girl once and wondered why I could not become a priest or even an altar server. It certainly seemed unfair to me at the time. (I still secretly harbor a wish to be an altar server.) Growing up at a time when societal barriers were being dismantled through civil rights and radical feminism, the overt message was you can be anything, do anything, or go anywhere you want in the name of liberation. While many of those discriminatory barriers and prejudices needed to be toppled, I believe it has gone too far afield. I am not sure what personally motivated these women. Some people get the notion that unless every possibility is open to women, we remain unequal to men. That is simply untrue. Frankly, the "ordination" struck me as an arrogant act and another misguided attack on my beloved Church. I, like the brother, anticipated your blog entry on the attempted “ordination” of two women and was not disappointed. First of all, I was that little girl once and wondered why I could not become a priest or even an altar server. It certainly seemed unfair to me at the time. (I still secretly harbor a wish to be an altar server.) Growing up at a time when societal barriers were being dismantled through civil rights and radical feminism, the overt message was you can be anything, do anything, or go anywhere you want in the name of liberation. While many of those discriminatory barriers and prejudices needed to be toppled, I believe it has gone too far afield. I am not sure what personally motivated these women. Some people get the notion that unless every possibility is open to women, we remain unequal to men. That is simply untrue. Frankly, the “ordination” struck me as an arrogant act and another misguided attack on my beloved Church.

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