A Womanpriest Meets a Little Girl
Inspired by Father Zuhlsdorf’s comments about Womenpriests, I made my first cartoon using xtranormal. His remarks made me think about what my daughter who received her First Communion this year would say to a woman who pretended to be a priest. It wouldn’t make sense to her because it goes against what parents teach children as they prepare for Sacraments.
Category: Parenting, Social Issues, Truth is Simple
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I love the 'mommy and daddy' parts! LOL
Fantastic! Well done. It's so simple, even a little girl knows the Truth. Love it!
We “receive” Holy Communion rather than “taking” it.
Great, great cartoon lesson!
Fixing that…thank you!
Beautiful, and even sad. Great job. -Feryl
That was great!
Brilliant!
“The Church teaches that no woman can be a priest because Jesus was a man.”
Surely there’s more to the Church’s reasoning than this, because I don’t see the logic here at all. The statement seems to be a complete non sequitur.
(Also, it seems like you’ve set up a straw woman here. Are there really women who argue God is unjust and discriminated against women for starting his Church with his Son? If so, I’d love to see a link so I can go and have a chuckle at their expense._
Rob,
View the link to Father Z’s website. That’s where I got it from, and he explains about Church teaching. But yes, the simple answer is that Christ was a man.
Stacy, I went to the Father Z’s site and looked at the page you linked to. In it he says over and over (and over and over) that women can’t be priests, but if he explained why, I didn’t see it.
Rob, it’s at the end. It’s cannon law. Cannon law comes from divine revelation, God.
“Not a “rule”. This is is a teaching, not a rule. It is an irreformable, infallible teaching. The Church has no power to ordain women. It can never happen.”
Divine revelation is the truths that Christ, God Himself, gave us. There is no question that Christ was a man and Christ instituted the Eucharist. The priest carries out the Divine service, the principal act of which is the Eucharistic Sacrifice. He represents Christ, a man.
This friend of mine explains it in more detail.
http://tasteandsee2.blogspot.com/2010/11/woman-in-support-of-all-male-priesthood.html
Stacy, saying it’s canon law just says what the law is — it doesn’t say WHY the law is what it is.
Thanks for the additional link. It has the same problem with asserting “It follows, then, that since Jesus was a man, the priest would be a man as well,” without actually explaining the logic. It does little good to say, “He represents Christ, a man” unless you establish that Christ’s manliness is one of his key traits as savior and redeemer — when in fact, I thought the point was Christ’s humanity (not his masculinity) and that he came to redeem all humans (not just men), in which case it would make sense to say, “The priest represent Christ, a human being.”
I find this more convincing, “As seen previously, He instituted the priesthood with men even when it was in His power to include women. Additionally, He had many women followers and supporters, but He never appointed one of them to be one of the twelve Apostles, who were the first priests.”
But then I’m forced to wonder: Did Jesus Himself appoint any Gentiles to be Apostles?