tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8940364093450837549.post7599164753540033389..comments2024-03-29T01:24:45.251+00:00Comments on Fr Hunwicke's Mutual Enrichment: Different types of women priestsFr John Hunwickehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17766211573399409633noreply@blogger.comBlogger22125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8940364093450837549.post-2074069991133706422017-03-27T20:40:10.250+01:002017-03-27T20:40:10.250+01:00For a wonderful introduction to or review of the C...For a wonderful introduction to or review of the Catholic Faith, try <i>God and the World</i> by Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger and Peter Seewald.Donna Bethellhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03889995101309151034noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8940364093450837549.post-9412844527743467332017-03-27T15:41:19.028+01:002017-03-27T15:41:19.028+01:00Many of us were or are in Banshee's situation....Many of us were or are in Banshee's situation. I have found Fr. John Hardon's Catholic Catechism a good and very readable way to start to find out Things One Should Know. Not having grown up in a practicing Catholic family I think the hardest things are the little things that make up Catholic life such as devotions, sacramentals, having Masses said for people, that Cradle Catholics at John Patrickhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17352405449391514146noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8940364093450837549.post-89290733349670170822017-03-27T10:45:37.236+01:002017-03-27T10:45:37.236+01:00Although I write as a supporter of the Ordination ...Although I write as a supporter of the Ordination of women, I believe your caricatures of these two types of women clergy are quite accurate. It is the first category you describe I find most troublesome, because I would argue that they do not see THEMSELVES as priests, more as ecclesiastical social workers. Colin Spinkshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06187466247865796371noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8940364093450837549.post-29018834659615621242017-03-26T13:45:37.734+01:002017-03-26T13:45:37.734+01:00For any person of goodwill who appreciates traditi...For any person of goodwill who appreciates tradition or even just Church continuity and normality (which is the same thing), there is a lot of trouble finding out about the existence of Things One Should Know, as opposed to just pitching in with whatever mix of sense and propaganda one has been given.<br /><br />When I was a girl in Catholic school, I was trying to be Catholic just like my Bansheehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12594214770417497135noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8940364093450837549.post-49385860280154262602017-03-26T08:34:26.151+01:002017-03-26T08:34:26.151+01:00I heard RS's prose comps were marked down unti...I heard RS's prose comps were marked down until they realised he was writing in modo taciti nec ciceronice. At least that was what I was told as an undergrad.Albrecht von Brandenburghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12996637489269911349noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8940364093450837549.post-2348777483945183612017-03-25T22:58:23.037+00:002017-03-25T22:58:23.037+00:00I've always been confused by the wearing of th...I've always been confused by the wearing of the cassock by such women. After all, the cassock is not a unisex garment.Br. Gabriel Thomas, OPhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16824006295974370765noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8940364093450837549.post-31310198504743498192017-03-25T22:38:51.064+00:002017-03-25T22:38:51.064+00:00How could I not? For it is you who led me from the...How could I not? For it is you who led me from the desert of the reformed Roman Rite to the Promised Land of the Ordinariate, where I have thrived quasi natus. Best wishes from Timothy Humphries, S. Thomas More parish, Toronto Deimaterhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07102371264192841637noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8940364093450837549.post-84887575434893751742017-03-25T22:24:24.224+00:002017-03-25T22:24:24.224+00:00Dear Deimater
I earnestly and truly repent me of ...Dear Deimater<br /><br />I earnestly and truly repent me of my sins ... and crave your forgiveness ...Fr John Hunwickehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17766211573399409633noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8940364093450837549.post-39132846195808480682017-03-25T19:43:17.853+00:002017-03-25T19:43:17.853+00:00My dear Father Hunwicke, *everyone* knows that. I ...My dear Father Hunwicke, *everyone* knows that. I just assumed you would never use an association fallacy, which obviously fooled thus trusting and devoted follower.Deimaterhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07102371264192841637noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8940364093450837549.post-36871175439573689092017-03-25T18:38:30.830+00:002017-03-25T18:38:30.830+00:00Actually, a Google search reveals that Admiral and...Actually, a Google search reveals that Admiral and Mrs. Poindexter's son, Alan, a retired astronaut, was killed in a tragic jet ski accident in Florida.Woodyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08910654300435533408noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8940364093450837549.post-10283691916716714872017-03-25T18:31:07.496+00:002017-03-25T18:31:07.496+00:00Many thanks for explaining the in joke, Father. As...Many thanks for explaining the in joke, Father. As to Linda Poindexter, whom I had the privilege to meet at a Back to Rome conference, she said her conversion was spurred on by the obviously stronger pro-life witness in the Catholic Church. I believe the admiral also converted after a time. Sadly their astronaut son died in an auto accident here in Houston a few years ago.<br /><br />Most Holy Woodyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08910654300435533408noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8940364093450837549.post-68636362281074470952017-03-25T18:15:14.802+00:002017-03-25T18:15:14.802+00:00Perhaps the maniple-less sacristy should be provid...Perhaps the maniple-less sacristy should be provided with a maniple of plain linen in some neutral colour that could be worn with any set of vestments?Little Black Sambohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16699227938165106710noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8940364093450837549.post-2401785102033347532017-03-25T17:27:46.507+00:002017-03-25T17:27:46.507+00:00At Trinity the War Memorial gates are inscribed si...At Trinity the War Memorial gates are inscribed simply Suos Domus Luget Laudat. There are two schools of thought about the authorship of the inscription, one that it is by Thomas Higham, the Mods don in that era, the other that it is by Sir R. Syme, ancient history don until promoted to the Camden Chair (and so to Brasenose). My theory is that T. Higham wrote something of the usual length andOliver Nicholsonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07187098939500953848noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8940364093450837549.post-52284356566238631652017-03-25T17:05:14.682+00:002017-03-25T17:05:14.682+00:00Dear Deimater
Tacitus wrote in a very clipped, el...Dear Deimater<br /><br />Tacitus wrote in a very clipped, elliptical sort of Latin.<br /><br />Sir Ronald Syme, the great student of Tacitus, spent so long studying Tacitus that he ended up writing English in the same sort of clipped, elliptical style as Tacitus' Latin.<br /><br />Sir Ronald was a New Zealander.<br /><br />Didn't you realise all that?Fr John Hunwickehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17766211573399409633noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8940364093450837549.post-27593482663333004062017-03-25T15:37:49.342+00:002017-03-25T15:37:49.342+00:00One thing is shows is that, however so misguided t...One thing is shows is that, however so misguided their aspiration for what can never be, they even still have more liturgical and aesthetic sense than the blokes who really could be (are?) Priests.Ben of the Bayouhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07300583569226801488noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8940364093450837549.post-22362736459012777922017-03-25T15:12:28.533+00:002017-03-25T15:12:28.533+00:00If she were really as orthodox as her interest in ...If she were really as orthodox as her interest in attire seems to demonstrate, she would realize her apparent situation as a "priest" is impossible, as well as a spiritual dead end. I'm sure she has good intentions.<br /><br />Fr. Hunwicke, the very idea! No one should ever "shout" at you. That would be exceedingly rude and unappreciative toward you, our learned and Kathleen1031https://www.blogger.com/profile/10201084623185206141noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8940364093450837549.post-61701243267948542272017-03-25T15:06:20.761+00:002017-03-25T15:06:20.761+00:00A very engaging article. One is not sure how to c...A very engaging article. One is not sure how to categorize an individual in whom a catholic expression of ordained live is so positively expressed, yet dismisses such a fundamental component of our humanity. May Our Lady of Walsingham help this lady reach through the shadows of modern sexual confusion. Richard Griffithhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05414415954578815473noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8940364093450837549.post-25811291562031405792017-03-25T14:49:24.858+00:002017-03-25T14:49:24.858+00:00A historical truth which was brought home to me by...A historical truth which was brought home to me by seeing a photo of grinning females in mitres and copes lined up before some benighted high altar: all women priestettes are in drag. Although the clerical attire is flowing, it was made for and, until ten minutes ago, always worn only by males. These ladies are drag-priests, decked out in the opposite sex's garments. It is as if, when first, OreamnosAmericanushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15602268350813211243noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8940364093450837549.post-2510528059577630962017-03-25T14:03:47.408+00:002017-03-25T14:03:47.408+00:00As a Canadian and member of the Ordinariate of the...As a Canadian and member of the Ordinariate of the Chair of S. Peter, I must and do protest the gratuitous zing launched at the good people in our sister realm of New Zealand. The fact that they recently voted to retain the Union Jack in their flag is proof positive that they've oodles of style. Deimaterhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07102371264192841637noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8940364093450837549.post-50685432314578147252017-03-25T13:31:58.678+00:002017-03-25T13:31:58.678+00:00Linda Poindexter, the wife of former Reagan Admini...Linda Poindexter, the wife of former Reagan Administration National Security Advisor and Admiral John Poindexter, was an ordained Episcopal priest for 13 years before <a href="https://zenit.org/articles/woman-episcopalian-priest-converts-to-catholicism/" rel="nofollow">converting to Catholicism.</a> Maybe there is hope for your chaplain friend yet!the Savagehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09639884350227862717noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8940364093450837549.post-6084704113498876532017-03-25T12:03:41.409+00:002017-03-25T12:03:41.409+00:00I guess her sistern who are in the messy church wo...I guess her sistern who are in the messy church would have to wear a womaniple or possibly a personiple in order to avoid being thought too rigid.<br /><br />Speaking of maniples, I heard a religious once refer to the maniple as a mandible; deadly serious she was and not a trad hater. Probably a slip of the tongue as a result of not having to use the term for so many years.Lillibethttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08665437159699375343noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8940364093450837549.post-68003830531684066632017-03-25T10:41:13.328+00:002017-03-25T10:41:13.328+00:00A formerly Anglican, now Catholic priest was most ...A formerly Anglican, now Catholic priest was most amused at an ecumenical event to see a Uniting Church lady minister wearing an alb with a crossed stole.<br /><br />I have heard tell that numbers of women ordained in the Anglican Church fairly soon gave away their ministry, almost as if, once the novelty of it all wore off, and the victory won for Woman, the humdrum nature of clergy pastimes Joshuahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17387698013828199070noreply@blogger.com