History isn't taught anymore in schools in the US and, for all I know, may have been expunged from the UK curriculum too. Behold, punters, Gramsci's long march through the institutions, but regardless, we're all critical thinkers here and some of us may even remember the far-off, mists of time arguments in favor of ordaining wymxn.
They weren't complex and went pretty much like this: Women can be judges, lawyers and politicians, so why not priests? Anything less is unjust! To exclude half of humanity from the priesthood is hateful, wrong and unjust and has to stop, the Gospel of love demands it. The Church didn't ordain women because it was hidebound to the patriarchal oppression of the past, this has to stop! And the good old kicker, "If we don't ordain women, no one in today's society will take us seriously."
How that last point's aged like vintage milk. My, how the people of the Anglo-sphere look to Canterbury and think, "At last I can take Anglicanism seriously because Sarah Mullally's in charge." What risible nonsense, just on the face of it, much less without the vaguely deeper point that the Church, founded by Christ, is to shape the world as opposed to the other way around. You'll recall, all you history buffs, how early Christians were ripped apart by wild beasts in the arenas of Rome for standing up for such a thing.
Then there's the secular sacrosanct taboo of social justice. No wymxn priestesses means no justice, badly, egregiously so, and we must correct that to become truly Christian and loving. Oh my, how compelling, until you make the effort and see what they're saying, which is this:
That the Church, from its earliest conception was wrong, grievously wrong, that it had injustice and sin written into its ministerial and sacramental DNA from the very beginning, because it didn't ordain women. And only now, since the enlightenment of the last 50 years have we seen the truth, inspired, no doubt, by the Holy Spirit zhirself.
For Holy Spirit, read Cultural Marxism or something worse, far worse, Satan himself. They were saying, and some still do, that the Church, the Mystical Body of Christ, was evil at something like its deepest level, and had to be corrected. This is one of Talarico's impudent little blasphemies masquerading as tolerance and love. But no, their stance, their position isn't about love, it's about hatred of the Church Christ founded, and if you hate that, what d'ye think of its founder, Christ himself?
Not much. Therein, my few friends, hangs the tale, an evil tale of revolt against God, see Lucifer, and in this case, the sacramental ministry he's given to us. That's, I believe, at the heart of it, but now? Behold the spectacle of persyns like Mullally pretending to be something, Archbishop, they don't even believe in anyway.
That in mind, keen-eyed readers will have noticed that Churches and dioceses which adopt wymxn priestesses soon lose all sacerdotal character, the innovation's like a solvent which dissolves sacramental belief and practice. Caveat and hey, here at the Compound, in this sylvan enclave which is North Central Texas, there are no wymxn priestesses and no one's complaining about that.
Your Pal,
LSP
