Word: jesus
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...betrayed him. He is Don Juan, sucking the innocence out of his conquests. He is the Flying Dutchman, sailing the centuries for an incarnation of the woman he loved. He is Death, transmitting a venereal plague in his blood, in his kiss. He is even Jesus, speaking Jesus' last words as he dies, a martyr whose mission is to redeem womankind. Husband, seducer, widower, murderer, Christ and Antichrist, Dracula contains multitudes. He is every mortal man and every mortality with which man threatens women...
...side are those who believe that the mission of Christ's church is damaged when half its members are denied the chance to use their God-given gifts. On the other are those who are equally devout in their faith that the male priesthood was instituted by Jesus Christ himself 19 centuries ago when he called 12 men as his Apostles...
...their own sins but of the sins the church commits | against women. Last month, 30 members of Chicago Catholic Women gathered to chant, "I am a woman giving birth to myself; bless what I bring forth," and then shared eucharistic bread and wine -- without once uttering the name of Jesus...
...political battles is a basic theological dispute about the role God intends men and women to play in his service. Catholic officials insist that they recognize women's gifts and full spiritual equality but want to preserve distinct roles for each gender. All sides note that for his time, Jesus bestowed uncommon dignity upon women and that in the New Testament church they were remarkably visible as speakers, teachers and deacons...
Traditional Catholic theology holds that because God was incarnate as a man, only men can serve as representatives of Jesus Christ at the altar. In its 1976 Declaration against women priests, the Vatican said that although the incarnation "took place according to the male sex," this does not imply superiority of gender. The document added, however, that there is a "profound fittingness" in having priests with "natural resemblance" to the male Jesus Christ, since they represent him in the Mass. "If you were staging a Nativity play, would you have Cary Grant or Nick Nolte play Mary?" asks Ronda Chervin...