{"id":2604,"date":"2008-10-15T17:45:43","date_gmt":"2008-10-15T22:45:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost:8888\/2008\/10\/15\/because-it-is-not-jesus-will\/"},"modified":"2008-10-15T17:45:43","modified_gmt":"2008-10-15T22:45:43","slug":"because-it-is-not-jesus-will","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/2008\/10\/because-it-is-not-jesus-will\/","title":{"rendered":"Because it is not Jesus&#039; will"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"article\">ROME &#8212; Catholic women seeking to become priests denounced the church&#8217;s ban on female ordination as sexist and unjust, bringing their campaign close to the Vatican on Wednesday during a worldwide gathering of bishops.<\/p>\n<p>The small group of women representing Catholic organizations from around the world marched across the Tiber River close to St. Peter&#8217;s Square, some wearing signs with the names of prominent women in the early days of the Roman Catholic Church.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Ordain Women! Ordain Women!&#8221; the woman chanted. They later tried to deliver a petition to the Swiss Guards at the Vatican, but nobody came to pick it up.<\/p>\n<p>Aisha Taylor, the executive director of the Women&#8217;s Ordination Conference in the United States, said the women wanted to call attention to the issue during the synod, a meeting of 253 bishops under way. [<a href=\"http:\/\/www.bnd.com\/279\/story\/504263.html\">article<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p>Reminds me of the hilarious Envoy Magazine piece that had the names for some future encyclicals including:<\/p>\n<p class=\"article\">Amen Amen Dico Vobis; Nihil Muliebrium Sacerdotum (Read My Lips: No Women Priests) Encyclical asking radical Catholic feminists what part of Pope John Paul the Great&#8217;s Ordinatio Sacerdotalis (on the reservation of holy orders to men alone) they don&#8217;t understand.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article\">Rursus Dicam: Nullo Modo (I&#8217;ll Say It Again: No Way) Encyclical explaining the pope&#8217;s position on women priests even more plainly.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ROME &#8212; Catholic women seeking to become priests denounced the church&#8217;s ban on female ordination as sexist and unjust, bringing their campaign close to the Vatican on Wednesday during a&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2604","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2604","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2604"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2604\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2604"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2604"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2604"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}