Oh, spare us the cries for female priests and married priests (Letters,
August 27). Obedience, as the characteristic of the Church in the Middle Ages
cited by John Whitty and a requirement of every Catholic, then and now, is a
secondary issue here.
The relationship of the priest to the Church (the Catholic Church, that is)
is spousal. Like Christ, the priest – no matter how sinful - takes the Mystical
Body of Christ for his bride.
To quote Cardinal Walter Brandmuller of Germany, “female ordination is an
ontological impossibility and gravely sinful.
"Whoever does it or insistently
demands it is a heretic – even if he wears the Roman Purple”.
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