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(Photos source: Twitter)Translated from Vida Nueva: "Nathalie Becquart: the woman with a voice and (for the first time) with a vote at the Synod" - and a foot in the door!
'Small but firm steps' will sound familiar to Anglicans. Step by step women who, allegedly, only wanted to be deacons used every trick in the book to be ordained priest and to be admitted to the episcopacy.
Remember when it was said that if women were allowed to be accepted as deacons, it didn't follow that they would then be allowed to become priests? When deacons wanted to be ordained priests, it didn't mean that they would be allowed to become bishops?
Jolly June Osborne, bishop of Llandaff, admitted recently in a podcast that "once you've made women priests there isn't a theological reason at all why they shouldn't enter the episcopacy."
June along with her colleague Joanna Penberthy, bishop of St Davids, both complain that anyone taking a different theological position to them is prejudiced.
In a television interview in April 2018, bishop Joanna asserted, "if you can be prejudiced in the soft institution of the church, what does that say about your attitude to women?"
The 'soft institution of the church' to use Penberthy's words has been used by feminists to advance their own cause at the expense of the Church, trampling on the faithful in the process as Women and the Church (WATCH) have demonstrated when they have reneged on the agreement that gave them what they wanted, feminist power.
A foot in the door is just the beginning.
Sorry to make the first comment on this post completely off-topic, AB (although implicitly related because I suppose, at the end of the day, we're talking about disasters that are a consequence of appointing people to senior posts based on gender rather than overall suitability) but... I see there's yet another ad in today's Church Times for a Director of Music at Bangor Cathedral. I wonder if they'll get an application from an appointable candidate this time round? The usual obfuscation in the wording cannot disguise the fact that the musical foundation is on its backside and the person will effectively have to start from scratch.
ReplyDeleteThey might be better having a look in the Lost Property Department after losing four directors of music over the past decade.
It will be very interesting to discover who the external advisor for this post is - unless, of course, the part-time/full stipend Dean imagines herself competent to make an informed appointment. I also wonder if she has been on some kind of intensive training to address the longstanding culture of bullying against the musicians in the Cathedral that began with Cyanide Sue and was perpetuated by Car Crash Cathy?
How about Bob the Builder putting in an application to be the Cathedral organist? He's done just about every other job in the Bangor diocese. 'But' I hear you protest 'he lacks experience and qualifications.' To which we all respond in unison 'It's never stopped him before'!
ReplyDeleteSometimes a foot in the door can get trapped. Anyway Christ promised the gates of Hell would not prevail against HIS Church....unlike man made ones.
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