LYON, France –A French woman defied a threat of excommunication by the Roman Catholic Church and held a ceremony proclaiming herself a priest on Saturday.
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In a small ceremony on a boat, Genevieve Beney was joined by other women from around the world who have taken similar dramatic action to draw attention to the church’s policy against women priests.
"This is not a rupture with the Roman Catholic Church," Beney said in a statement read aloud before she boarded the boat. "If there is a rupture on my part, it is with a situation that I consider to be obsolete and unjust to women." [Source][Via Dei Gratia]
What is it with women’s ordinations and being on a boat anyway? Is it a pun on the Sea of Peter or is a a subconscious acknowledgment of a watered down theology that is overboard? The title of the story is "French woman ordains herself a priest." Judging by the story I don’t know if that is an accurate description of what they thought to have happened, but I do think someone ordaining themselves a priest is the perfect analogy of what is wrong with so many modern religious concepts. That it it is break from apostolic succession and becomes a parody as part of of radical individualism. After all when you break from the constant teaching of the Church and its authority then why even play the game of finding a faux bishop to ordain you – just ordain yourself. But why she stopped at just ordaining herself a priest I don’t know. Or does she wait a day or two to ordain herself a bishop. After all she has already become her own pope. I wonder if she laid hands on herself? Instead of being sent she sends herself.
I can just imagine the inner conversation of a women priest before being called to be ordained a bishop.
"I have decided that I will ordain myself a bishop"
"I am not worthy for this honor but since I have been called by myself I will submit out of obedience with due humility to myself."
Judging by this picture I do feel sorry for what occurs from the oppression of women priests. They can’t go to Gammarelli Ecclesiastical Tailoring and find matching handbags for their robes and obviously are wearing inferior products.
Anyway this picture demands a part II for the captions contest started previously and for the record I protest the Angry Twins comparing them to the Three Stooges. What did the Stooges ever do to them to elicit such an unfair comparison?
Anyway to get the contest started.
"Believe us – the blue Deacon Stole Life Preserver your wearing will prevent you from drowning."
"When do I get my own red moo-moo?"
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comment, not caption: Didn’t you notice the sandals? Wearing the sandals give all the dispensation needed, I think.
I don’t know, those vestments look preeeeety nice.
Linda Tripp and Martina Nravitalova were among the dozens of celebrities who pitched in at “Take a Mentally Ill Person to the River Day” in France.
I agree with Hrothgar; the one on the right is a deadringer for Martina. That poor women in the center looks not only confused, but totally out of it, poor thing. “What’s an ordination? What’s a priest? I’m getting your voices confused with the voices in my head! We’ve got to get out of here; the satellites are stealing our souls. I’m missing Dr. Phil!!”
What is it with women’s ordinations and being on a boat anyway?
Is it possible to draw a link between this and the �abortion ships�?
What is astounding is that the bishop’s spokesperson said that the Diocese won’t issue any written form of excommunication. These heretics will then use that in their favor and will say “how the local church is quietly suporting thier cause.”
Is the person in the center really a woman? I seriously wouldn’t have guessed, had I not read the entire article. Where has feminity gone to, I wonder…
Anyway, captions:
“Bilbo Baggins finds himself surrounded by red-clad feminists in a never before seen footage of ‘The Hobbit’.”
“2 nurses gently guide a delluded schizophrenic patient back to the mental institution by posing as long-haired priests.”
“What is astounding is that the bishop’s spokesperson said that the Diocese won’t issue any written form of excommunication. These heretics will then use that in their favor and will say ‘how the local church is quietly suporting thier cause.'”
The sad thing is, by not vocally excommunicating these heretics and being lenient towards them, the local church IS quietly supporting their cause… so that gives room for them to be triumphalistic.
I don’t see what the big deal is with the diocese’s response. The bishop already warned them that they would be “rupturing” themselves from the Church. The spokesman said this:
A spokesman for the archbishop, Vincent Feroldi, said that no decree of excommunication would technically be necessary since Beney’s act violates church law and automatically makes her incapable of receiving the sacraments, such as communion.
What he said is quite accurate – their act results in an automatic excommunication. The Church has responded to these cases in the past (i.e. with the decree of excommunication a few years ago for the women in Austria, who were in fact already excommunicated by virtue of their act), and the bishop has warned them. Is anything more really necessary? How is that “quietly supporting” their cause?
“Hey, Genevieve, glad you could join us for Safari Night on the cruise ship! Now quick, lemme get you a matching dress and we can hit the buffet… I heard it’s all you can eat zebra!”
Is that woman the same as lego-woman from the first caption contest?
Red Pancho Babe 1: “I wonder if we’re both strong enough to toss this porker overboard.”
Red Pancho Babe 2: “I don’t know. Let’s give it a try.”
Both Pancho Babes: “1… 2… 3…”
NEWS FLASH//// Curly, Moe, and Larry appear on ship in heavenly robes , Larry was heard to say,”Nyuk, nyuk, nyuk”
Captain Kurk, we have one to beam aboard. I think she’s vulcan.
No dear, you can’t be a bishop until you have a red moo-moo, and Walmart was out. But hey, you’ve got a monsignor’s flip-flops!
Off topic:
Vote Aquinas! Quick!
http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/history/inourtime/greatest_philosopher.shtml
“on the count of 3 we will throw you overboard shorty, it’s called drowning of the spirit”
“Woman steadied after becoming confused and pinning the tail on her own behind.”
More contemporary half-wits such as those St. Augustine was foreced to endure and answer.
Mighty aphrodite! Where’s my broom and cauldron?
I assume that this means she can also defrock herself (pun intended with all of its subconscious manifestations). Et ne nos inducas in tentationem.
‘Keep Dreaming Sweetheart’
It could also be ‘The Three Stooges crossing the River Styx to Hades’ but maybe that is too mean.
What is sad is that the secular media outlets will go 15 rounds on this junk rather than showing the women who give their humble and obediant fiat. I don’t recall when I one of ‘my Sisters’ in Carmel made her final profession that there was any secular news services there or while the Poor Claires started the new cloister during the wild fires in Arizona.
I really enjoy your blog by the way!! Good for you!! Thank you for your hard work for Christ and His Bride!
Omnia Pro Iesu Per Mariam!
Just a comment….
is there a wacky “rock the boat” theme to these dismal affairs?
I like the phrase…” since I have been called by myself I will submit out of obedience with due humility to myself.” Sounds better than what I mutter on my way to grab the dental floss every night, “Promised the dentist and myself that I’d never skip a day of flossing.” Let’s see if that improves my gingiva!
“Today on a special ‘live’ edition of Home Shopping Network, we’re offering this slightly-dazed domestic worker. Our two models, Chelsea and Kelsey, are bringing her out now. Yes, I know she’s seems a little out of it, but remember she spent 46 hours stowing away in the cargo hold of an oil tanker, so she’s not used to bright lights yet.”
-or-
“Dateline: March 4, 2010.
History was made today when the last remaining Sister of Mercy of the Americas was escorted out of her waterfront home in Boca Raton, Florida, by medical attendants from the Shady Pines Nursing Home. The Sisters moved to Boca in 2006, after selling off all their unused convents around the US for an amazing $146 million dollars, and purchasing the luxury home in this exclusive gated community. The home will become a museum where one will be able to see the last place the RSMs walked the earth.”
Ah, and to think I was taught by the good Sisters of Mercy. Have they have gone to the way of the rainbow sash, and gay rights protests?
The way things are going the previous post by JT wouldn’t surpise me at all.
“Welcome to Beldar Seven, Sister Genevieve… Soon you will be able to meet all the voices in your head, in person! Punch shall be served.”
or
“Sure – we’ve been at sea for fourteen months and you’ve had your brain scrubbed by chanting dominatrices – but quit calling us Scientologists!“
http://www.lifesite.net/ldn/2005/jul/05070507.html
OH Sh*t… I forgot to baptise and confirm myself this morning!
Jeff, that is by FAR the best caption!! ROFL!!
Ok, this is really all I got:
“Well, I was sittin’ there with ‘Aunt Mary,’ know what I’m sayin’? And then it hit me: ‘The Heretics of Penzance.'”
In Star Wars, didn’t the Emperor’s personal guards wear red, too?
Oh my! This is the Beach Shore Womens Club’s summer production of “Return of the Jedi”. Well, that explains it!
Blondes really do have more fun! They get the red robes, and the brunette gets a wimpy green sash. Just look at them. The blondes are smiling, and the brunette looks like she got the short end of the stick.( more than she’ll ever know)
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