{"id":8764,"date":"2002-10-12T12:06:39","date_gmt":"2002-10-12T17:06:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost:8888\/2002\/10\/12\/loyal-priestesses\/"},"modified":"2002-10-12T12:06:39","modified_gmt":"2002-10-12T17:06:39","slug":"loyal-priestesses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/2002\/10\/loyal-priestesses\/","title":{"rendered":"Loyal Priestesses"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font color=#3333ff>She believes there is<br \/>\ntheological evidence that women held positions of authority, and were ordained<br \/>\nas deacons in the early Christian church. <\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=#3333ff>Therefore, she said, the ordination of women would not<br \/>\nconflict with church tradition.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=#3333ff>A <i><b>loyal<\/b><\/i> Catholic, she has never entertained<br \/>\nthoughts of leaving the church, deciding instead to lobby for change from<br \/>\nwithin.<\/font> [<a\nhref=\"http:\/\/news.com.au\/common\/story_page\/0,4057,5262773%5E3462,00.html\">Full<br \/>\nStory<\/a>] [<a\nhref=\"http:\/\/atleticorules.blogspot.com\/2002_10_06_atleticorules_archive.html#82827886\">Via<br \/>\n&#8230;ibidem&#8230;<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p>Wouldn&#8217;t loyalty include &#8220;submission of will and<br \/>\nintellect&#8221; to the teachings of the Holy Father? I wonder if a cancer that<br \/>\ndecided to stay and grow within the body instead of leaving it, would it also be<br \/>\nconsidered loyal? I don&#8217;t quite understand how you could have theological<br \/>\nevidence for this doctrine in the early church, if you had evidence wouldn&#8217;t it<br \/>\nbe historical and ultimately Apostolic Tradition? <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>She believes there is theological evidence that women held positions of authority, and were ordained as deacons in the early Christian church. Therefore, she said, the ordination of women would&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8764","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8764","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=8764"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8764\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8764"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8764"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8764"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}