Homily today: Ordinatio Sacerdotalis
Much to the consternation of about .0005% of the congregation today, our Assc. Pastor mentioned JP II’s encyclical that declares the Church does not have the authority to ordain women to the priesthood. It didn’t tie in gracefully with Pentecost, but it did tie in with The Situation did tie in nicely with his theme in the last few weeks of the question: Is Jesus God?
If Jesus was God, could he have chosen apostles who were women? Or do we think that our pal Jesus just a historical figure that was bound by the customs of his time?
Someone explain this to me: Why do some people think that the socio-economic changes that ocurred in America since the 1960’s should also be applied to the 2,000 year old Church of Christ? Do they know more than JP II what’s good for the Church? More than St. Catherine of Sienna? More than St. Francis? St. Teresa Avila? St. Paul? Or even Jesus – who made the choice Himself?
God on earth. He did a lot of things that were “counter-cultural” including die on the cross for us.