A woman who challenged a Catholic ordination ban has died. The Catholic church will not allow her to be buried at a Catholic parish.
Janine Denomme was ordained a priest in April by a group called Roman Catholic Womenpriests. She had been battling cancer and yesterday she died in her Edgewater home.
The Catholic church never recognized Denomme’s ordination. The Archdiocese of Chicago says Denomme automatically separated herself from the Church when she participated in “the simulation of the sacrament of Holy Orders.” The diocese says she knowingly and willingly participated in the simulation and brought excommunication upon herself. And because of that Denomme is denied a Catholic funeral. The Archdiocese says Denomme would only be allowed a Church burial if she gave “some sign of repentance before death.”
Denomme’s funeral mass will be held at First United Methodist Church in Evanston.
She could have avoided this problem if she had chosen to become an influential pro-abortion Senator instead. Then she could have had a televised Catholic funeral. To be fair this case is much more cut and dry compared to a case where a bishop would have some prudential decision made as to the sign of repentance of in regards to a pro-abortion Catholic politician.
This case though does make me rather sad and I pray for her and for that matter her lesbian partner Nancy.
Father Z
written by John Salza was recently released by Tan books. I wanted to review this book because this is a subject I had of which I have never read of specifically in depth. The subject of Predestination if often seen as a subject mostly weighed in on by Protestants, though predestination is specifically mentioned in scripture and has been addressed over time by various counsels. I was previously aware that the two major schools of thought regarding predestination in Catholics theology circles was the Thomist and Molinists views. The argument did get rather heated at one time until I believe the Pope told them to basically “chill out.” So there is no official teaching of the Church in regards predestination other than ruling out some aspects of the subject such as double-predestination as taught by Calvin where some are predestined to Hell. So currently the Thomist, Molinist, or some composite of the two are acceptable views for Catholics to prudentially hold.
is a new Graphic Novel on the Life of St. Paul. Matthew Salisbury a graduate of John Paul the Great University teemed up with with illustrator Sean Lam to tell the story of St. Paul in Manga format. Using comics to tell the truth of the faith has a good amount of modern history behind it and this continues in that tradition using the Japanese style. Now I have have never read any Manga directly though have been introduced to the drawing style via Animé I was introduced to via Adult Swim, but I do have a cat named after a character in Inuyasha. This graphic novel certainly uses the Manga style to good effect and I certainly enjoyed the illustrations used as the story is told. I really wished it had been inked, but the black and white drawings are fairly effective.