wonder if these women would force a raped woman to keep the pregnancy

[ensho]

or make a women raped by a family member keep the pregnancy

http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,2019635,00.html


Defying the Vatican, Catholic Women Claim Their Priesthood



Like any good priest, Judy Lee knows how to use a Bible story. One of the readings for Roman Catholic Masses on a recent Sunday, from the Book of Wisdom, recounts how the Hebrews defied the pharaoh by worshipping God "in secret." That passage resonates at the house in Fort Myers, Fla., where Lee is conducting Mass for 25 Catholics gathered in front of a coffee-table altar in defiance of the Pope. "Rome says you'll be thrown out of the church for being here," says Lee, "because I'm a woman."

Lee, 67, considers herself a validly ordained Catholic priest. The Vatican disagrees. "The Catholic Church ... has no authority to confer priestly ordination on women" because Jesus had no female Apostles, Lee was told in a letter from the local bishop, the Rev. Frank Dewane — who also informed her that she had been excommunicated for ignoring that doctrine. Lee's reply: "Rome can impose all the rules it wants on women, divorced people, gay people. But it can't stop us."

(HERE IS THE ANSWER TO THE SUBJECT LINE)


Conservative Catholics say this is really about feminist politics, and certainly there is overlap. The Womenpriests use a liturgy that stresses gender neutrality ("In the name of God our Father and Mother ..."), and they don't toe the Vatican line against birth control and abortion, endorsing instead the Catholic tenet of informed individual conscience. They also favor the kind of new-age, Mother Earth music that can grate on even progressive Catholics.

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what is new-age Mother Earth music? new-age I get but Mother Earth music? haven't heard of that genre.

[stray cat]

1. keep or abort the child?

[Karenina]

2. A zygote is NOT a child.

Ask anyone who has suffered a miscarriage.

[ensho]

3. true

nt

[madrchsod]

4. those dam pagan women getting all uppity...