tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2777800537280892029.post7036242017337997466..comments2023-08-15T19:19:06.077+01:00Comments on Dominusvobiscuit: WHAT ABOUT MEN?Benny the Bridgebuilderhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04763002558985058266noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2777800537280892029.post-29706549082017502942019-10-20T16:23:14.725+01:002019-10-20T16:23:14.725+01:00I said, in the post above:
"I still feel it ...I said, in the post above:<br /><br /><i>"I still feel it odd when confronted by female Anglican priests, and as for their female bishops."</i><br /><br />Thinking back over this, I realise that it underlines the importance of role models and of the need to break through barriers of perception, however modestly at first.<br /><br />The Roman Catholic Church has managed to keep women out of the priesthood by keeping them out of the priesthood. As long as the idea can be kept strange, that's half the battle.<br /><br />The same was true in relation to race. Fifty years ago could you have envisaged the black babies having any part in running the country.<br /><br />The image of those to be excluded has to be demonised or disparaged in some way. It keeps them apart.<br /><br />While role models, however oddly perceived initially, gradually bring about acceptance by being perceived as normal as the examples multiply.<br /><br />I suppose what I'm saying in this context is that we need more exposure for those women who have been ordained, whether, for example, in the Anglican Church or in the Roman Catholic Church, even if the theological validity of the latter is currently fairly widely disputed.Benny the Bridgebuilderhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04763002558985058266noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2777800537280892029.post-91673259571564168062019-10-20T13:08:35.260+01:002019-10-20T13:08:35.260+01:00Couldn't resist it:
When Jesus came out of th...Couldn't resist it:<br /><br />When Jesus came out of the womb<br />There was nary a sound of a boom<br />The hymen held fast<br />As through it he passed<br />And confounded all those in the room Benny the Bridgebuilderhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04763002558985058266noreply@blogger.com