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...told the audience about a two-and-a-half year-old named Elizabeth, who loved the story `The Good Samaritan.' Satcher said the child's father would read her the story and then quiz her on it. She always said the priest helped the injured man in the story. When he asked why she continually answered the question incorrectly, she said she didn't like the way the story went...
Clark asked Ramerman to modulate her role during Mass, in part by desisting from "priestly gestures" and by removing her stole. She refused and was dismissed on Oct. 15. But she is unrepentant. Says she: "The Vatican holds women back when it sends the message that we're not good enough to approach the altar, not good enough to read the Gospel, not good enough to be a priest...
Defiance is a Corpus Christi tradition. The month before, the Bishop removed the church's maverick priest, Father Jim Callan, who had pushed his parish beyond Catholic extremes. In 1974, during his very first homily as a priest, he called for the ordination of women. He also welcomed all to partake of Communion (with no baptism and no belief required). In 1993 he began blessing gay unions. He characterizes many of the Vatican's policies as "sinful and discriminatory...
...course, the Holy See zealously protects the integrity of Catholic sacraments--whether they involve marriage between a man and woman, or the Eucharist. It maintains that the gender of a priest is not accidental but essential. Christ was male, he appointed male apostles, so the minister who absolves sins and personifies Christ in celebrating Mass must be male. "I declare," wrote Pope John Paul II in 1994, "that the Church has no authority whatsoever to confer priestly ordination on women...
...while you're busy tending to your physical needs, don't neglect your spiritual ones. Many patients find that praying with a minister, priest, rabbi or other counselor before or after an operation provides an extra measure of calm--and gives them a head start on the road to healing...