Wednesday, December 12, 2012

Roman Catholic Womenpriests.

You know what I really like?  Roman Catholic Womenpriests.

The name "womenpriests" is a little odd (it's almost like a corporate logo where two words are both capitalized and written without a space in between, and it's reminiscent of 2nd-wave feminist wordplay), but I love 3 things about them:

1) They got apostolic succession by having (unnamed) bishops consecrate them.

2) They take a historic view, and say that what Rome condemns one century it loves down the road.

3) They call the consecrations "contra legem" ('against the law' in Latin), which not only points out that some specific man-made canon prevents women from becoming priest, but even uses Latin to boot in order to do that, which must really irk conservative Catholics, who tend to love to throw Latin around.

Overall, between the apostolic succession, the appeal to history, and the Latin, they took all these conservative hallmarks and did something really really liberal.

Go them!

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