The Church will be a long time digging out from this pontificate.
And Heresy Proceeds on Its Merry Way
- Donald R. McClarey
Donald R. McClarey
Cradle Catholic. Active in the pro-life movement since 1973. Father of three, one in Heaven, and happily married for 43 years. Small town lawyer and amateur historian. Former president of the board of directors of the local crisis pregnancy center for a decade.
The Faithful won’t put up with it. Who wants to waste an hour of their busy Sunday ensuring a self-serving clown show? Not me! If there is no God in the equation, the Faithful will stop turning up.
Would that not then invalidate the Mass ? If the Anglican “Priestess” concelebrated the Mass, the confecting of the Sacrament surely would not have occurred. And if the Sacramental Mass was neither licit or valid, was the bishop’s consecration valid? Where are our canon lawyers ?
The camel has its nose in tent and many will say it’s righteous! Others will shrink from saying anything, rather than be despised by effeminate men.
Which is to say many will think The Son of God was mistaken “we” know better, others will be ashamed of Him.
It’s hard to think “they know not what they do”.
They are educated, they are priests?
Go along to get along.
One of the commandments of the Church of Nice.
I’d tell you what number commandment it is but that would be like saying some commandments are more important than others and, ya know, equity….
In the USA, if a church calls itself “Anglican,” it is probably quite theologically orthodox, and (probably though not for certain) doesn’t accept female clergy. “Anglican” tends to be a replacement for “used to be Episcopal but please don’t confuse us with those looney-tune heretics,” being muh easier to fit on the church sign. Obviously it’s not that way in Brazil. The Anglican Sort-of-Communion is a mess.
Don Beckett, I believe this Mass(?) wasn’t the bishop’s ordination, but rather to mark his taking possession of his new See. In short, we don’t have to worry that this invalidates his episcopal ordination. That would truly have been a nightmare.
On the other hand, previous Popes have definitively established that a) Anglican orders are invalid, and b) a woman cannot be ordained a ‘priestess’.
This new Archbishop has made it very plain that he thinks clear, definitive Catholic teaching is just a loose suggestion, and he can ignore it if he pleases. A bishop’s role is to instruct and uphold Catholic teachings— and this man has decided clear Catholic teachings aren’t good enough and his own are better. I feel sorry for the people of his diocese.
“Isolated incident of inadvertent” Hmmm.
The Portuguese-language news service ACI contacted the diocese after the service asking whether the presence of Mrs. de Oliveira violated Canon 908, which forbids Catholic priests to concelebrate the eucharist with clergy not in full communion with the Catholic Church.
Archbishop Magri released a statement in response on 13 Feb 2025, noting that he had already communicated to the Apostolic Nunciature in Brazil the circumstances surrounding this “isolated incident of inadvertent violation of liturgical norms.”
“We renew our commitment to doctrinal orthodoxy and liturgical orthopraxis, and will make efforts to avoid future errors,” he said.
The priest at Mass acts “in persona Christi.” A woman at the Mass? And this from the Church of England whose head is King Charles and whose KJV Bible refers to God as a physical thing (a which) but does not refer to God as a Sovereign Person, three Sovereign Persons of the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit in the Blessed Trinity.
What is King Charles, Head of the Church of England doing about this blasphemy?