{"id":3058,"date":"2008-01-15T13:06:50","date_gmt":"2008-01-15T18:06:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost:8888\/2008\/01\/15\/women-priests-become-catholics\/"},"modified":"2008-01-15T13:06:50","modified_gmt":"2008-01-15T18:06:50","slug":"women-priests-become-catholics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/2008\/01\/women-priests-become-catholics\/","title":{"rendered":"Women priests become Catholics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"blog\"><a\nhref=\"http:\/\/blogs.telegraph.co.uk\/ukcorrespondents\/holysmoke\/jan08\/women-priests-catholics.htm\"\ntarget=\"_blank\">Damian Thompson reports<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p class=\"article\">At least two Anglican women priests<br \/>\nhave become Roman Catholics because they are fed up with being treated<br \/>\nlike dirt in their own Church, according to Fr Michael Seed, the<br \/>\nFranciscan friar who is ecumenical adviser to Cardinal Murphy-OConnor.<\/p>\n<p>Fr Seed  a deeply inspiring priest who has received many Anglicans<br \/>\ninto communion with Rome  reveals this extraordinary detail in an<br \/>\ninterview with the Independent, which has buried it away in a feature.<br \/>\nHe received two women himself  and has now told the Catholic Herald<br \/>\nthat other female priests have come over to Rome as a result of<br \/>\npersecution.<\/p>\n<p class=\"blog\">This treatment is explained:<\/p>\n<p class=\"article\">Christina Rees of Women and the Church<br \/>\nsays: Every woman who is ordained as a priest in the Church of England<br \/>\nknows in one sense there is still a question mark hanging over her<br \/>\norders in a way which does not hang over the order of her male<br \/>\ncolleagues.<\/p>\n<p class=\"blog\">Anglican orders for women are just as<br \/>\nvalid as Anglican orders for men. &nbsp;So there is a strange but<br \/>\nunintentional equality within Anglican orders since for the most part<br \/>\ntheir male priests<a\nhref=\"http:\/\/www.papalencyclicals.net\/Leo13\/l13curae.htm\"\ntarget=\"_blank\"> are not validly ordained in the first place<\/a>.<br \/>\nThere are exceptions since some Anglican<br \/>\nbishops have confused the issue by having Orthodox bishops with valid<br \/>\norders participate in their ordinations, though of course this doesn&#8217;t<br \/>\nmatter in the case of attempted ordination of women.<\/p>\n<p class=\"blog\">It is rather interesting that in this<br \/>\nenvironment of doubt that these women would decide to come into the<br \/>\nCatholic Church where there is no doubt on the issue except within<br \/>\nprogressive elements who act as their own magisterium. &nbsp; I bet<br \/>\nthough that progressives will see these conversions of Anglican<br \/>\npriestesses the same way Democrats seek black conservatives.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Damian Thompson reports: At least two Anglican women priests have become Roman Catholics because they are fed up with being treated like dirt in their own Church, according to Fr&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3058","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-punditry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3058","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=3058"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3058\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3058"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3058"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3058"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}