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lagilmanThe following is brought to you by the letters W, T, and F: Bishop Will Read Up On Auschwitz, But May Not Recant
He's been dismissed from his post at an Argentinian seminary because of the outcry, but I don't expect him to back down from any of his rather... inflammatory and offensive views, which cover far more than "merely" the Holocaust...
"In one letter from 2001, addressed to his “friends and benefactors” in Canada, Bishop Williamson came down firmly against college education for women, arguing that “women going to university is part of the whole massive onslaught on God’s Nature which characterizes our times,” and concluding: “True universities are for ideas, ideas are not for true girls, so true universities are not for true girls.” In the same letter the Bishop also asserted that for women, wearing trousers was another violation against nature and should be discouraged." (emphasis mine)
I'm sure y'all can imagine the spluttering going on at Ch. Felidae right now....
As some of you may or may not know, there is no single 'structure' for Jews the way there is for Catholics -- our synagogues are independent, and even among the more Orthodox or sect-like branches, we can best be defined as an "un-organized religion." Five Jews, seven opinions, at least two books of Commentary. So having someone "in authority" hand down statements about god's opinion about what I am/am, not capable of or worthy of or presentable for, and expect me to fall into line with that, is pretty much out of my comprehension. I mean, it's not like disagreeing with the president, or your mayor -- this is, supposedly, your Moral and Religious Authority, endorsed by Pope-and-God.
So I ask the practicing Catholics on my f-list -- how do you reconcile something like this, when the Pope has accepted him back into the Church proper? Are you able to compartmentalize "he says" vs "I do?" And if so, then what does that say about Papal authority? Where's the line? I'm not trying to start a flame-war, just get at some kind of understanding...
(and the icon is amazingly apt for this discussion, no?)
He's been dismissed from his post at an Argentinian seminary because of the outcry, but I don't expect him to back down from any of his rather... inflammatory and offensive views, which cover far more than "merely" the Holocaust...
"In one letter from 2001, addressed to his “friends and benefactors” in Canada, Bishop Williamson came down firmly against college education for women, arguing that “women going to university is part of the whole massive onslaught on God’s Nature which characterizes our times,” and concluding: “True universities are for ideas, ideas are not for true girls, so true universities are not for true girls.” In the same letter the Bishop also asserted that for women, wearing trousers was another violation against nature and should be discouraged." (emphasis mine)
I'm sure y'all can imagine the spluttering going on at Ch. Felidae right now....
As some of you may or may not know, there is no single 'structure' for Jews the way there is for Catholics -- our synagogues are independent, and even among the more Orthodox or sect-like branches, we can best be defined as an "un-organized religion." Five Jews, seven opinions, at least two books of Commentary. So having someone "in authority" hand down statements about god's opinion about what I am/am, not capable of or worthy of or presentable for, and expect me to fall into line with that, is pretty much out of my comprehension. I mean, it's not like disagreeing with the president, or your mayor -- this is, supposedly, your Moral and Religious Authority, endorsed by Pope-and-God.
So I ask the practicing Catholics on my f-list -- how do you reconcile something like this, when the Pope has accepted him back into the Church proper? Are you able to compartmentalize "he says" vs "I do?" And if so, then what does that say about Papal authority? Where's the line? I'm not trying to start a flame-war, just get at some kind of understanding...
(and the icon is amazingly apt for this discussion, no?)
