"Wherefore, in order that all doubt may be removed regarding a matter of great importance, a matter which pertains to the Church's divine constitution itself, in virtue of my ministry of confirming the brethren (cf. Lk 22:32) I declare that the Church has no authority whatsoever to confer priestly ordination on women and that this judgment is to be definitively held by all the Church's faithful."
If you are a Catholic, that is the end of the issue. If you still deny it, you are not a Catholic.
Although the teaching that priestly ordination is to be reserved to men alone has been preserved by the constant and universal Tradition of the Church and firmly taught by the Magisterium in its more recent documents, at the present time in some places it is nonetheless considered still open to debate, or the Church's judgment that women are not to be admitted to ordination is considered to have a merely disciplinary force.
@jesusthroughmary In the 1600's the Catholic Church declared a dogma that the earth was the center of the universe and the sun revolved around the earth. The church has been wrong about many things> they are completely wrong about women priests carrying spiritual authority. Come into the 21st century.
@ruach2351 Also, it's not about preaching or "spiritual authority". That shows a gravely deficient, shallow, and ultimately Protestant understanding of the priesthood. The priesthood is a spiritual fatherhood.
YOU ARE A LIAR ,THE CHURCH HAS ALWAYS HONORED MARY,IT HAS BEEN APOSTATES LIKE YOU, WHO HAVE TRIED TO ,NEGATE MARYS PLACE IN THE CHURCH. MAYBE IF YOU PRACTICED A LITTLE OF MARYS HUMILITY, AND GOT ON YOUR KNEES, AND SAID THE ROSARY ,YOU WOULD BE MORE ENLIGHTENED.YOU ARE TYPICAL OF MODERNISTS , WHO WANT TO MAKE A CHURCH ,IN THEIR OWN IMAGE AND LIKENESS VIVA JESUS MARY VIVA HOLY FATHER.
@stbridgetscross The word 'satan' means accuser. You can look in the mirror and see how angry you get when someone does not agree with you. Where is your peace? Where is your blessing of your enemy? Did not Jesus say it was a sin to get angry at your brother? You need to follow Jesus if you claim to be his disciple.
um...I'm sure Christ would have had women APOSTLES if He wanted to. Of course he had followers of both genders but He shared His authority to the APOSTLES. It seems to me the Mr. Bowes is implying that Christ was fearful of the people to the extent that he put off "women priesthood" until the 20th century.
I am certain that the ones who are corrupting the Catholic Church are the priests who abused so many thousands of children. Look to your own sins. As for the signs of the sun dancing in Medjugore, I was there and watched the sun without sunglasses for 40 minutes and no retinal damage. The sun danced int he sky. Mother Mary caused the sun to do that. Blessed are those who believe even if they have not seen.
Why not just become an Episcopal "priest" and get it over with. Why do you insist on corrupting the Catholic Church? We've allowed these jokers to run wild for too long.
Catholic Church is exploiting women to glorify manhood..Galatians3: 28.Neither Jew nor Greek,there is neither bond nor free,there is neither male nor female:for you are all one in Christ Jesus.Women unfortunately are born into and trapped in different world religions and some treat them like animals.May Christ Jesus Save Women and help them out cruel ,illogical religious men ,decrees ,edicts and Fatwas designed to suppress , demean and treat women as lesser beings
This guy is not a Catholic priest. No Catholic priest can make such a heresy against the Catholic church. The RCC has never and never will ordain women as priests.
@ruach2351 you are the believer and teacher of multiple heresies. first and formost the teaching that Jesus is a seperate entity then the Christ. The Catholic church firmly teaches that there is no seperation, that Jesus is the Christ, he did not become the Christ or the the Christ did not fuse itself with the person Jesus. This is blatantly heretical. Secondly, Mary is not the co-redeemer. Christ states quite clearly that salvation is recieved only through him. Mary prayes for us....
@exiledfenian Jesus calls Mother Mary the Co-Redeemer in the Poem of the Man God by Maria Valtorta. You should do some reading in Jesus' dictation to Maria about his Mother and you will learn she is both Co-Mediator and Co-Redeemer. She also went through the crucifixion with Jesus and suffered the same as he did, although not in such a blatant way.
@ruach2351 first and foremost, that work has not been approved by the vatican..ever. not even this heretical, false vatican church has approved it. why? because it goes against the teachings of the church. the same as with medjugorje. lying signs and wonders to fool the elect. you cannot accept as truth what 2000 years of church teaching tells you is a lie. There is only one redeemer, and that is Christ the Lord.
@dannad2511 The Chair used to say the earth was flat and killed people who did not believe that way. They were obviously wrong. There are probably many things that have been taken back that used to be adamantly avowed in the past. The authority of women as priests will be another one in the future. Wait and see.
@ruach2351 the majesterium never officially ruled on that. it was an opinion but never an infallible church teaching. god would not allow the the church to have error. people had opinions. not the church. fallible men, such as yourself, always make errors. that is why you must always go to infallible church teaching, dogma and ex-cathedra pronouncments. the chair, never said anything
This is such a fraud. Sir- if you call yourself "Father" or "Priest" you pretend to be a Catholic priest (as opposed to a protestant minister, pastor etc). The church which has been founded by Jesus Christ does not tolerate such abominations.
Everybody, when you check out this guy's website, you will see that he is wearing purple. Catholic priests dont wear that kind of dress, in fact, purple is commonly used by protestants/evangelicals. This is such a fraud. Do not be led astray!
HEy anyone wh owatches this: this guy is not a priest and unfortunately he is teaching lies instead of the truth. If you want the truth, stick to what Jesus ACTUALLY taught. This stuff is totally against the Word of God and against what the CAtholic Church has passedo nfor two thousand years. Have a look at w w w . catholic . c o m under the faith tracts to learn about the true priesthood and lots of other great stuff; and I will b eprayign for you and all those who see these videos.
Junia[s], Priscilla (Prisca) and Phoebe were are church leaders listed in the New testament (Acts 18 and Romans 16). There were women in leadership within the Pagan realm, however not in my Realm (Jewish). This is why Paul states what he does about women not speaking or teaching or having authority until they learned in private as they needed to learn,as much as the men did,how to be in Biblical Eldership!If you do not twist Scripture than I accept your authority if You are a Loopy liberal, nope
He is not a roman catholic priest he's some wierd offspring of the true Catholic church..........If you are ordaning women then you are throughing your fist up at the magisterium and the POPE himself by not following canon law..you dummy
@lionhasalreadybe He's not a priest, nor Catholic. He's basically walking around dressed like that to get people's attention. If you have any questions about the faith, I'd love to help.
@PikSokolit Unless you can read hearts, you should definitely not judge or you will be judged. The world has changed and Jesus would have changed some of his teachings to address the changing times. Solomon had many wives, Jesus said we should have only one wife. He changed the teachings because of the times. Men had trouble with women in authority as it scared them back 2000 years ago. Catholic Priests are still very frightened of women in positions of authority.
@cmiller1144 You should ask Jesus if people should apply to Mother Mary for anything that they need and any graces. She is fully a Mediator and Co-Redeemer just like Jesus and so is a High Priest for all those who follow Christ.
@cmiller1144 Mary was the first to bear the Christ in herself and that constitutes carrying the fullness of the Christ before Jesus became the Christ.
That was so convoluted a response I have no clue what you mean. When was Mary ordained? I can't remember anything suggesting that she was an ordained minister. She may be a great advocate but not a priest.
@cmiller1144 The priesthood according to Peter, is the whole Church! Need I remond you of Junia[s] as an Apostle and Phoebe as a Deacon in Acts 16?! You are highly ignorant!
These people are ripping apart the Church, but the gates of hell shall not prevail. You must obey the Holy Father. These acts are grave sins and incur excommunication automatically.
"I declare that the Church has no authority whatsoever to confer priestly ordination on women and that this judgment is to be definitively held by all the Church's faithful."--Pope John Paul II, Ordinatio Sacerdotalis
@nulle46 Pope's are human and many pope's have ordered the murders of millions of people. That is a sin of murder. So Pope's can make huge mistakes, like our present Pope condemning ordination of women and putting it in the same category as the crime of pedophilia. That is a huge mistake of judgment and setting up a witch hunt for women priests. Shame on him for doing that.
the bible and the church is quite clear on the issue. why rationalize. the Church has spoken, if a woman wants to serve the church, she should first be obedient to it.
why serve a church that you disagree with. the church does not allow women to be priests- not because they believe that it is a bad idea or because they believe women to be inferior....they theach this because they believe that it is impossible and it is not God's will.
You are so correct Father....I do believe on what you are saying....I was watching other videos of women ordination and that is just so crazy....I am glad that my Diocese which is Diocese of Saginaw have a good Bishop to ordain men, not WOMEN....my local Bishop is Bishop Joseph Cistone and our past Bishop is Bishop Carlson which he is now Archbishop of St. Louis,Mo. God Bless you!
"The soul travels from life to life. " CRACKPOT!!! For that matter, my soul was a '69 Camaro SS before it was in my body. And before that, I was Mt. Everest! Soon I may just be a moon rock.
@maxcactus7 One does not return in an animal or mountain or insect, but in another human embodiment, either male or female and from many different cultures and races. Get a grip on your sense of reality.
Yes he had great woman disciples, and many were stronger in their faith than the apostles but Christ never chose any woman to be apostles, the apostles were the only ones ordained by Christ. Shame on you Father.
Father, you are misleading and wrong. What makes "sense to you" does not make sense to the Pope. He speaks for all of us as Roman Catholics. I would not want you in my parish.
@kpman This is severely biased thinking. Mother Mary was the Queen of Heaven and a woman and the leader of the Apostles for the time she remained on earth after Jesus ascended.
If you presume to be a Catholic priest. Then you need to ask yourself WHY? If you are in a Catholic diocesan parish, you KNOW what the Church teaches about women being ordained...THEY CAN'T. God does NOT change, nor His commandments. If Christ wanted a woman in the priesthood, His own Mother would have been at the Last Supper being ordained along with the 12 Apostles. You, "father" and many like you are the reason why the Church is in its present state. Obey or decipher your "true" calling!
@billjkahn Mother Mary was in the other room at the Last Supper and Jesus served her communion while the Apostles waited for Jesus to come back from serving her. She is the High Priest along with Jesus of the whole of Christianity. The church used to state infallibly that the world was flat - remember. That was a Papal decree which was obviously wrong.
You are Wrong. And spreading UNTRUTH. 1. a women cannot be a "priest" in any church and will N E V E R be ordained so. The word priest is gender specific, a woman may become a "priestess". 2. Now, find for me in sacred scripture a priestess in Jewish/Christian history?
@mmmail1969 We ordain women as priests and they demonstrate more integrity and purity than the vast numbers of male priests who have so sensually indulged themselves on each other and raping young children. Jesus would condemn the impurity in the priests and would definitely in today's world endorse and empower women to enter into the priesthood, as we already do.
@ruach2351 Firstly, your statement regards the "vast numbers" of priests having "senaually indulged" is plainly an untruth. The vast majority of Priests (I presume you mean Roman Catholic) would never participate in such wrongful acts and to suggest otherwise is nothing short of stupidity - indeed, if you are correct, then the vast majority (your words again) of police are corrupt, teachers are corrupt, bank tellers are corrupt, fire-fighters are corrupt etc - plainly stupid! (cont)
@mmmail1969 You need to research the numbers. There were 5000 priests in the United States alone and 4800 of those were indicted or accused of sexually abusing children - pedophilia. Some died before they could be indicted and some left the country. That makes for 15% as a conservative estimate of pedophiles. That number is higher than in any other profession or vocation. Total corruption.
@ruach2351 Secondly, you completely fail to understand the most basic of issues before you. You have NOT ordained any female priest - no one ever has. You may well have ordained priestesses - something with no basis in Jewish-Chrisitan heritage or theological teaching - why you would do so is your business and of no concern nor interest to me as a Roman Catholic whatsoever!
@mmmail1969 Women are being ordained priests all the time and I have ordained quite a few who are completely trained and carry the authority of the Divine Word.
Ordination of women is forbidden. Ex Cathedra. Any priestly dissent of that is blasphemy. Ordination of homosexuals and other deviates has wreaked havoc from the inside out on the Church.
@xplund Perhaps if the church had humbled itself to ordain women, there would not have been so much pedophilia and sexual abuses from the male priests. The latest condemnation by the Pope against women priests is shameful and a lack of contrition and honesty with regard to the shame and remorse he should be expressing for all of the thousands of priests that hurt so many people. To throw mud at women who want to join the priesthood is the worst sort of hypocrisy..
@ruach2351 Perhaps if the church had not taken a "Don't ask don't tell" policy on homosexuals pursuing "vocations" in the wake of Vatican II we would not have the problem with pedophilia. Your criticism of the Holy Father is shameful. Perhaps you're more suited for the Episcopal "church".
Hello, Father Peter, I find your videos very refreshing and honest.I just wish that the rest of christianity would stop tearing one another apart with there silly petty arguments about women and homosexuals and start to teach about Gods love for us.
People seem to use scripture and the Bible for anything but this Love and people are being driven away from the mainstream Churches because of this.
Ah, I rejoice when I find a soul like you! It is so true that people who want to find love and unity are finished with the mainstream denominations, and they are noticing the drop in numbers. Some have awakened, and some have not. Getting stuck in prejudice and tradition is fine if you want to be a Pharisee, but Jesus' ministry was to offer true spirituality instead of dogmatic rules for no good reason.
You have obviously never had children or you could not disrespect the feminine as much as you apparently do. Gender is just a body and since souls have had many bodies of both genders, what you say makes no sense. A few lifetimes ago, you were in a female body, did that make you without any authority or power because of your gender?
you imply reincarnation, which is not part of the Christian faith. You cannot pick and choose parts of religions to make your own religion. Reincarnation comes from Hinduism and Buddhism, not Christianity. We have one life, one body meant for one soul: our soul. Therefore what you just said cannot apply to this argument if we are still talking about Christianity.
You are arguing within a dogmatic assertion of doctrine, not true mystical experience.Most of the saints had mystical experiences that were not originally accepted as being consistent with church doctrine. Some have had experiences of other lives, some not. You do not know you have only one life because you do not know the others yet. The soul travels from life to life.
remember how deceitful the devil is in tricking us to believe what is false as what is true. All mystical experiences do not come from the love and revelation of God but some of the forces of evil. If you believe Christianity belives in reincarnation, then you are contradicting what Our Lord Jesus Christ said many times in the bible of the fires of Hell for those whose works are evil. With reincarnation, there is no need for Hell to exist therefore putting a contradiction on one another.
i wonder why you didn't let my last comment get posted or reply to it at least through message.. Do not search for God through the ways and logic of this world, the valley of tears. If you really want to find the Truth, God, pray without ceasing. May Jesus be Praised and Adored.
No sir. I disagree. The magisterium of the Catholic Church was obviously followed by the saints. If not, why would the Roman Catholic Church find them to be Holy? (Sanctus) As far as reincarnation is concerned....why would God place us back to earth to suffer if there is a place to be in complete happiness outside of mortal comprehension?
@Mewzisan2002 The saints were experiencing so much grace and gifts of the Spirit and that had nothing to do with dogmatic teachings or established accepted teachings. Those experiences were given by God, Jesus or Mary and had nothing to do with theology or ideology. Only the connection to God mattered and not any explanations. Then the saints were persecuted and feared and disrespected until they had to be accepted by the church because of the miracles that came through them.
this is heresy! the fact that you are a preist simply shows the corruption of the v2 church. This is an outrage. God our father has rules and those rules are meant to be followed. You have no place in the true catholic faith. this is an outrage, now i understand why so many fell from the catholic faith since the 60's, because satanists like you took over.
@exiledfenian You should be far more concerned about the 15% pedophiles in the Catholic Priesthood and not so much straining at the small stuff of reincarnation or not.
@ruach2351 15%??? actually the number is far greater. The fact that homosexualality and pedophilia has invaded the false V2 church is just another sign from god, showing us its filth and corruption. Small stuff like reincarnation you say? or ordaining women? nothing, and i mean nothing is small when it goes against the faith. Nothing is small when what you are teaching is heresy.
"Blasphemy"? Really do you really hate women that much? Women are equal and very strong in mind and spirit. In other Christian traditions women serve as priests and even Bishops, so what is the problem? Are they going to hell? I don't think so. Was Mary Magdalene, less of an apostle than Andrew or James? What about all the women around Jesus? Apparently Jesus had no problem with women. So why is it for you?
In that case, I would ask all non-Jewish male Catholic priests to resign and make way for Jews from Israel, seeing as Jesus chose Jewish men from Israel to be his apostles.
By what authority do you speak, that anyone should follow you or pay attention to you? You're just another of a long string of failed gnostics who couldn't agree with one another what to eat for lunch, much less what is "truth" (in the immortal words of Pontius Pilate).
Of course, I expect that your response will probably be to call be "intolerant," since the ad hominem and other fallacies of logic are the classic recourses for those who cannot support their argument.
I will answer you if you tell me whether you love those who do not believe the way you do. Or do you harden your heart and hate those who are not on your boat? Answer that honestly and I will tell you by what authority I do what I do and teach what I teach.
women can not be a preist she is not a father but a mother can we say hey father theresa what a herecy you are excomminicated and are not catholic do not use the term catholic orthodox or anything a like liberal catholic mayby but not roman catholic nor orthodox
What kind of love are you manifesting with your intolerance and pride? I never said I was orthodox or Roman Catholic. I wouldn't want to be that considering the kind of angry and hostile people who have been representing those institutions lately.Love you enemies, said Jesus.
I understand that Benedict XVI has Excommunicated them, but what about the Bishops... why are they not enforcing the Excommunication (or suspensions) the same way the did when priests refused to celebrate the Novus Ordo Mass???
My brother in-law (who wants to become a priest) told me that a nun (in San Antonio) was defending womanpriests in the Church, and so far she continues to give instruction there to priest candidates.
Father Peter should join the Episcopal church if he is a Catholic priest because claiming to be Catholic and ignoring Catholic teaching in light of the "inner light" against human reason is the working definition for gnosticism, a 2nd century heresy. That being said, we should keep Charity in mind by not condemning this man. Instead we should respectfully and patiently point out the the Church is infallible in Magisterial teaching and that this gnosticism is an ancient aberration & nothing new.
I am not catholic. I am under Jesus Christ directly by divine revelation. I don't need to join anything since I am a servant of Jesus and Mary and I answer to them, not to some ecclesiastical body of sophists and hypocrites.
You can be infallibly right or infallibly wrong. The Magisterium is guilty of false teaching.
Yes women should be ordained as they were in the days of the House Churches. That being said, NO POPE OR BISHOP CAN OVERTURN APOSTOLIC TRADITION.
Under decrees from the Council of Constance, Popes, Magisterium @ teaching are subject to review by a general council of laity known as an eccumenical council...which can be called at any time..to eliminate bad governance. Laity can & must correct error.
Either one hears God and because of our love for God, obeys. Obey means to hear. Or one is listening to other voices and desires besides God. Historical laws of the church may or may not be valid, but then the lawyers have to get involved. Jesus always screamed at the lawyers, remember?
if u study history of the church u will be ashamed of what u commented. i did but im stil a catholic becoz i understan the relationshp of Jesus and me thru the sacraments not by obedient to the pope. ur def. of catholicism is being obedient to the hierarchical not hold fast to what has been belived everywhere, always and by all. ignorance is pride of saying only the roman Church will go to heaven. you have the reason to be Catholic becoz majority of our brethren are bow down to the pope only.
I am not under the authority of the Pope, nor would I want that. I am directly under Jesus and Mother Mary. It is a relationship and not a belief system. I am not sure what you are saying as it is so unclear.
You are not catholic. if you are, you are incorrect and should be excommunicated. at mass, the priest acts in the person of Jesus, as he did at the last supper. Jesus was a man. Jesus could have ordained women, but he chose not to because he knew a woman could not act as him ( a man).
Have you asked Jesus about this misconception that a woman can not act with authority and spiritual consciousness? You are speculating about women from fear.
I am glad I am not catholic, since this kind of rigidity is exactly against love and what Christ taught.
Actually only a few men throughout the ages have acted like Jesus, and mostly not the priests in the churches. Usually the saints, many of which were not priests.
Twisting my words will not make you more loving or more spiritual. I said I was not a catholic priest. Please stop trying to cause enmity by expressing anger and hatred. Didn't Jesus teach against that kind of behavior?
I never claimed to be one. I am, however, a real priest, ordained under the authority of Jesus Christ and Mother Mary. They know who I am. If you have a relationship with them, you can ask them yourself. If you don't have that close a relationship with them, then you should get one.
He could be an Orthodox Christian priest or Coptic priest. People back off him. It seems like he is a preist but regardless he is a servant of God like any of us are and he is just trying to do good for us all. Lets just back off one another and call it a day
Read his posts. He teaches reincarnation, which no branch of Orthodox, Catholic, or Protestant Christianity accepts as dogmatic. Whatever his past may have been, he's just another New Age gnostic who has discarded belief in what "is" true in favour of what "feels" true. If you disagree, you'll simply be dismissed as "rigid" or "intolerant," since nothing beats a good ad hominem when you're out of ammo.
Since dogma is your instructor, you will have to be faithful to your beliefs instead, as you ought to be, faithful to the real Teachers _ Jesus and Mother Mary. Jesus taught reincarnation by saying that John the Baptist was Elijah. Remember, the Baptist was born of Elizabeth who was too old to bear children and John was 6 months old when Jesus was born? Did you forget that passage? Elijah was John the Baptist reincarnated, which means he was alive as a soul in a body before.
John the Baptist was in the spirit of Elijah. It dosen't mean in any way reincarnation. And of course dogma is an instructer, as JPII says that dogmas are beacons of light upon the road to heaven. You cannot trust alway what "feels" good, as the bible itself says that we ourself cannot be trusted or our thoughts. Its only God's word that matters, not personal thoughts.
Rome does not speak for Jesus. Jesus speaks for himself in the lives of those who really bear his fruits. Doctrines are not entrance pass into the kingdom of God. Jesus said. "Judge not, lest you be judged." I assume there is one New TEstament.
Unfortunately many church leaders no longer speak personally to Jesus and so do not hear His voice any more. That is really sad for Jesus who continues to try to teach humanity. But there are little voices that know Jesus personally. I am one of those.
It appears you are living 2000 years ago in a time when the fragile aspect of men's egos could not face women having spiritual authority. Things have definitely changed and Jesus and Paul would definitely ordain women, and do today.
Our Lord;s Truth does not change. Scripture does NOT need to keep up with the times. these people are heretics and they are leading others into hell. and their "holy orders" are NOT valid.
Jesus was clear when he warned people to not judge by appearances or actually to judge not at all, or you will be judged. You don't know enough spiritually to judge whether an ordination is real. You only have your books and your doctrine. But you would need spiritual sight ot know if something was real. You don't get that by reading. By their fruits you will know them.
Jesus di not say don't judge. He said judge justly. and i KNOW that those ordinations are not valid b/c the Church, which can not teach error, says that ONLY man can receive Holy Orders. Rome has spoken the matter is closed.
I am not pushing my way into a ministry that is corrupt. I am one of the servants of God and of Jesus and Mary, who has been raised up by them and not by some stodgy institution.
Blablablabla. Women cannot be ordained priests and deacons because God became man (Jesus Christ), and every minister of Christ after valid ordination shares in the hypostasis of the divinity and humanity in Christ, and this sharing is the power in the priesthood. Therefore only males can become priests. Women can become abesses, queens, artists, singers etc. But not priests. That is the Roman Catholic Faith. Basta.
Wow! You really think a little too highly of men. They are mostly kind of clumsy and not in touch with their feelings and still think they are developed spiritually. Mother Mary comes to mind as the most evolved and perfect expression of the priesthood besides Jesus.
If your faith was being practiced like Jesus taught, then you would have love for your enemies. Since you feel I am your enemy, then you are required by Jesus Christ to love me. Since you don't, you are not a disciple of Jesus. That is what he taught.
There are many people out there that make their own church, them call themselves Father or ever Bishop Whatever. It's just silly. Anyone who knows scripture and Church history knows this guy is not quite right.
If you know about Christ and His Church and read the scriptures, that is enough to know what you are supporting is not right. Jesus speaks to us through His word and His Church. He doesn't have to come to you in a cloud or dream or manifest Himself everytime you have a question, but He tells us to obey and believe His word, then that is enough. You must do the same or you are deceiving yourself. Don't believe the father-of-lies.
Again you are in belief land and relying on scriptures, which will not get you to the experience of union with God or a relationship with God. That can only be done through connecting to God in your heart. jesus said, "Search the scriptures for in them you think you find eternal life." It was misquoted as he stated in the Poem of the Man-God by Maria Valtorta. The churches changed his teaching here nad he has changed it back to what he actually said.
I do have a personal relationship with Jesus. But to be ignorant of scripture is to be ignorant of Christ. And once again, the problem with those like you who claim to know Him more fully than anyone else can say Jesus told them whatever. And we're supposed to believe it. Nice try. If what you say goes against scripture and the Church, you are misguided.
You think scripture is THAT pristine, huh? And the Church as authentic spirituality? You are among the masses of sheeple who know very little about the true nature of the Catholic Church that controls you.
I also doubt your *personal relationship with Jesus; very much so, actually. Keep on fearing God!
Father Peter's responses were SO patient and beyond anything most of us could tolerate, sadly enough. The responses left me with a stomach ache and a feeling that there was only anger and stubborness involved. Where's the Love, Light and guidance for ANY of us in these tirades?
Wow where do I start?, There is not now, never has been, nor ever will be women priests. If a Bishop attempts (yes attempts as it is not possible) to ordain a woman, then he is not in good standing. If a real bishop does lay his hands on a woman, a tree or a cow, or whatever it does not matter. He cannot ordain them. Also when a woman acting as a priest says the words of consecration, guess what happens......
You would have to know Jesus personallyl to know that he was very empowering of women and except for the fear in men at that time and century, would have ordained them because many were able to serve that way.
I do know Him personally. And yes He had women around him, but they were not put in positions of authority now were they? And if you say they were, show proof. Now aside from that, did you ever have hands laid on you by someone with authority to ordain. And don't say Jesus, because we both know He did not tell you personally.
That's informative. Where did he get his or HER authority. I'm sorry, but this is just getting silly. You can't answer so you play games. Let me know if you ever have a real answer.
Timothy was obviously a little rigid and thus human and so I would take some of what he said with a cultural grain of salt. The disciples were human. Mother Mary was blessed above every woman and thus above most men in fact. There has been no one more spiritually evolved than she, beside Jesus. Christianity comes of age witht his understanding. It is only heresy like the idea that the world is flat used to be.
We have many women priests in our Order who are fullyl empowered by God to heal, to forgive sins and perform the Sacraments and to teach and counsel. The men of old were too stodgy and narrow-minded to tolerate that 2000 years ago and of course ousted all the women deacons in very short order. If you would tap into your experience as a soul, you would find that you have lived many lives in both male and female bodies.
Fr. Peter. Respectfully, what on earth are you talking about?!? At what point, precisely, in Catholic church history were women considered lower beings? Can you name a church document that lays this out for me to read? At what point were they considered weak? Mary was conceived without sin and assumed into HEAVEN body and soul. Which, precisely, of the apostles received such a grace? God seeks holiness in mankind, not power. I think you've gone loopy!
Deacons in the CAtholic church were demoted a number of times and whereas they used to teach, were relegated to servant type duties over time. Mother Mary was the highest being ever to walk in a feminine body and thus without sin and perfect. Some women dsciples were honored and many were maligned.
No, Women are not priests because the priest represents Jesus who was a man. Women were diciples (just like lay people today) but no women were apostles who were the first priests and bishops. You are a heretic and I pray for your conversion. God Bless!
Thanks for your prayers, I can always use them. Mother Mary was a High Priest and was consulted by the Apostles for many years in the early church. I have been converted. It is not hard to imagine a dynamic priest or bishop in a female body, since many people have been in both genders over many lifetimes.
I agree that Mother Mary did not offer communion. but many times she has forgiven sins and continues to do that with Her grace and compassion for people. I have personally experienced Her doing that many times, just as Jesus did. Ask Her yourself and see if She has the power to do that. You will be surprised. But you would have to break out of your conceptual box and open your heart to
I bet his five studio albums are outstanding!
AlveusLacuna 9 months ago
@AlveusLacuna I actually have 12 albums (CDs) with very spiritual, devotional, meditational songs the move your soul.
ruach2351 9 months ago
"Wherefore, in order that all doubt may be removed regarding a matter of great importance, a matter which pertains to the Church's divine constitution itself, in virtue of my ministry of confirming the brethren (cf. Lk 22:32) I declare that the Church has no authority whatsoever to confer priestly ordination on women and that this judgment is to be definitively held by all the Church's faithful."
If you are a Catholic, that is the end of the issue. If you still deny it, you are not a Catholic.
jesusthroughmary 10 months ago
Although the teaching that priestly ordination is to be reserved to men alone has been preserved by the constant and universal Tradition of the Church and firmly taught by the Magisterium in its more recent documents, at the present time in some places it is nonetheless considered still open to debate, or the Church's judgment that women are not to be admitted to ordination is considered to have a merely disciplinary force.
jesusthroughmary 10 months ago
@jesusthroughmary In the 1600's the Catholic Church declared a dogma that the earth was the center of the universe and the sun revolved around the earth. The church has been wrong about many things> they are completely wrong about women priests carrying spiritual authority. Come into the 21st century.
ruach2351 9 months ago
@ruach2351 Also, it's not about preaching or "spiritual authority". That shows a gravely deficient, shallow, and ultimately Protestant understanding of the priesthood. The priesthood is a spiritual fatherhood.
jesusthroughmary 9 months ago
IS THERE CENSORSHIP GOING ON HERE ,I HAVE WROTE A COUPLE OF COMMENTS ,THAT HAVE;NT GOT THROUGH.
stbridgetscross 10 months ago
YOU ARE A LIAR ,THE CHURCH HAS ALWAYS HONORED MARY,IT HAS BEEN APOSTATES LIKE YOU, WHO HAVE TRIED TO ,NEGATE MARYS PLACE IN THE CHURCH. MAYBE IF YOU PRACTICED A LITTLE OF MARYS HUMILITY, AND GOT ON YOUR KNEES, AND SAID THE ROSARY ,YOU WOULD BE MORE ENLIGHTENED.YOU ARE TYPICAL OF MODERNISTS , WHO WANT TO MAKE A CHURCH ,IN THEIR OWN IMAGE AND LIKENESS VIVA JESUS MARY VIVA HOLY FATHER.
stbridgetscross 10 months ago
@stbridgetscross The word 'satan' means accuser. You can look in the mirror and see how angry you get when someone does not agree with you. Where is your peace? Where is your blessing of your enemy? Did not Jesus say it was a sin to get angry at your brother? You need to follow Jesus if you claim to be his disciple.
ruach2351 9 months ago
"Father" my fat aunt!
kpman 1 year ago
um...I'm sure Christ would have had women APOSTLES if He wanted to. Of course he had followers of both genders but He shared His authority to the APOSTLES. It seems to me the Mr. Bowes is implying that Christ was fearful of the people to the extent that he put off "women priesthood" until the 20th century.
mgthesixth 1 year ago
I am certain that the ones who are corrupting the Catholic Church are the priests who abused so many thousands of children. Look to your own sins. As for the signs of the sun dancing in Medjugore, I was there and watched the sun without sunglasses for 40 minutes and no retinal damage. The sun danced int he sky. Mother Mary caused the sun to do that. Blessed are those who believe even if they have not seen.
ruach2351 1 year ago
Why not just become an Episcopal "priest" and get it over with. Why do you insist on corrupting the Catholic Church? We've allowed these jokers to run wild for too long.
xplund 1 year ago
He is a moron
JANOMEMANN 1 year ago
@JANOMEMANN A childish and immature response.
ruach2351 1 year ago
Catholic Church is exploiting women to glorify manhood..Galatians3: 28.Neither Jew nor Greek,there is neither bond nor free,there is neither male nor female:for you are all one in Christ Jesus.Women unfortunately are born into and trapped in different world religions and some treat them like animals.May Christ Jesus Save Women and help them out cruel ,illogical religious men ,decrees ,edicts and Fatwas designed to suppress , demean and treat women as lesser beings
not worthy of the God'sGrace
MrMijana 1 year ago
This guy is not a Catholic priest. No Catholic priest can make such a heresy against the Catholic church. The RCC has never and never will ordain women as priests.
ebolingUtube 1 year ago
@ebolingUtube Never say 'never.'
ruach2351 1 year ago
@ruach2351 you are the believer and teacher of multiple heresies. first and formost the teaching that Jesus is a seperate entity then the Christ. The Catholic church firmly teaches that there is no seperation, that Jesus is the Christ, he did not become the Christ or the the Christ did not fuse itself with the person Jesus. This is blatantly heretical. Secondly, Mary is not the co-redeemer. Christ states quite clearly that salvation is recieved only through him. Mary prayes for us....
exiledfenian 1 year ago
@ruach2351 continued from previous.......and thats all, she has a privilged position, being the mother of God, but she is no co-redeemer
exiledfenian 1 year ago
@exiledfenian Jesus calls Mother Mary the Co-Redeemer in the Poem of the Man God by Maria Valtorta. You should do some reading in Jesus' dictation to Maria about his Mother and you will learn she is both Co-Mediator and Co-Redeemer. She also went through the crucifixion with Jesus and suffered the same as he did, although not in such a blatant way.
ruach2351 1 year ago
@ruach2351 first and foremost, that work has not been approved by the vatican..ever. not even this heretical, false vatican church has approved it. why? because it goes against the teachings of the church. the same as with medjugorje. lying signs and wonders to fool the elect. you cannot accept as truth what 2000 years of church teaching tells you is a lie. There is only one redeemer, and that is Christ the Lord.
exiledfenian 1 year ago
Never!
dannad2511 1 year ago
@dannad2511 The Chair used to say the earth was flat and killed people who did not believe that way. They were obviously wrong. There are probably many things that have been taken back that used to be adamantly avowed in the past. The authority of women as priests will be another one in the future. Wait and see.
ruach2351 1 year ago
@ruach2351 the majesterium never officially ruled on that. it was an opinion but never an infallible church teaching. god would not allow the the church to have error. people had opinions. not the church. fallible men, such as yourself, always make errors. that is why you must always go to infallible church teaching, dogma and ex-cathedra pronouncments. the chair, never said anything
exiledfenian 1 year ago
@ruach2351 There is nothing to wait and look for.
dannad2511 1 year ago
@ruach2351 The Chair says never. That means never.
xplund 1 year ago
@ebolingUtube this is not a catholic priest. this man is Gnostic! Order of Sophia? Gnosticism.
luvpinas123 1 year ago
This guy's no Catholic nor Orthodox priest. He's smokin' some bad juju.
Garbanzo884 1 year ago
This is such a fraud. Sir- if you call yourself "Father" or "Priest" you pretend to be a Catholic priest (as opposed to a protestant minister, pastor etc). The church which has been founded by Jesus Christ does not tolerate such abominations.
Everybody, when you check out this guy's website, you will see that he is wearing purple. Catholic priests dont wear that kind of dress, in fact, purple is commonly used by protestants/evangelicals. This is such a fraud. Do not be led astray!
humanrightslawyer 1 year ago
HEy anyone wh owatches this: this guy is not a priest and unfortunately he is teaching lies instead of the truth. If you want the truth, stick to what Jesus ACTUALLY taught. This stuff is totally against the Word of God and against what the CAtholic Church has passedo nfor two thousand years. Have a look at w w w . catholic . c o m under the faith tracts to learn about the true priesthood and lots of other great stuff; and I will b eprayign for you and all those who see these videos.
EhJayJC 1 year ago
Junia[s], Priscilla (Prisca) and Phoebe were are church leaders listed in the New testament (Acts 18 and Romans 16). There were women in leadership within the Pagan realm, however not in my Realm (Jewish). This is why Paul states what he does about women not speaking or teaching or having authority until they learned in private as they needed to learn,as much as the men did,how to be in Biblical Eldership!If you do not twist Scripture than I accept your authority if You are a Loopy liberal, nope
MenechemShaul 1 year ago
He is not a roman catholic priest he's some wierd offspring of the true Catholic church..........If you are ordaning women then you are throughing your fist up at the magisterium and the POPE himself by not following canon law..you dummy
r8offire 1 year ago
Is this real? I think this is a sick joke. Is this video for real? People? Is that guy really a priest? I can't tell if he's being serious or not.
lionhasalreadybe 1 year ago
@lionhasalreadybe He's not a priest, nor Catholic. He's basically walking around dressed like that to get people's attention. If you have any questions about the faith, I'd love to help.
EhJayJC 1 year ago
@PikSokolit Unless you can read hearts, you should definitely not judge or you will be judged. The world has changed and Jesus would have changed some of his teachings to address the changing times. Solomon had many wives, Jesus said we should have only one wife. He changed the teachings because of the times. Men had trouble with women in authority as it scared them back 2000 years ago. Catholic Priests are still very frightened of women in positions of authority.
ruach2351 1 year ago
What denomination are you?
justinstroh 1 year ago
Thats funny, I can't remember Mary being ordained to the priesthood???
cmiller1144 1 year ago
@cmiller1144 You should ask Jesus if people should apply to Mother Mary for anything that they need and any graces. She is fully a Mediator and Co-Redeemer just like Jesus and so is a High Priest for all those who follow Christ.
ruach2351 1 year ago
@cmiller1144 Mary was the first to bear the Christ in herself and that constitutes carrying the fullness of the Christ before Jesus became the Christ.
ruach2351 1 year ago
@ruach2351
That was so convoluted a response I have no clue what you mean. When was Mary ordained? I can't remember anything suggesting that she was an ordained minister. She may be a great advocate but not a priest.
cmiller1144 1 year ago
@cmiller1144 The priesthood according to Peter, is the whole Church! Need I remond you of Junia[s] as an Apostle and Phoebe as a Deacon in Acts 16?! You are highly ignorant!
MenechemShaul 1 year ago
Has this heretic been excommunicated yet?
NormBetland 2 years ago
These people are ripping apart the Church, but the gates of hell shall not prevail. You must obey the Holy Father. These acts are grave sins and incur excommunication automatically.
dialyt55 2 years ago
"I declare that the Church has no authority whatsoever to confer priestly ordination on women and that this judgment is to be definitively held by all the Church's faithful."--Pope John Paul II, Ordinatio Sacerdotalis
End of discussion
nulle46 2 years ago
@nulle46 Pope's are human and many pope's have ordered the murders of millions of people. That is a sin of murder. So Pope's can make huge mistakes, like our present Pope condemning ordination of women and putting it in the same category as the crime of pedophilia. That is a huge mistake of judgment and setting up a witch hunt for women priests. Shame on him for doing that.
ruach2351 1 year ago
You see Paragraph 675 of the catechism becoming alive in your hearing.
Farkel44 2 years ago
the bible and the church is quite clear on the issue. why rationalize. the Church has spoken, if a woman wants to serve the church, she should first be obedient to it.
why serve a church that you disagree with. the church does not allow women to be priests- not because they believe that it is a bad idea or because they believe women to be inferior....they theach this because they believe that it is impossible and it is not God's will.
PaterNOSTER110289 2 years ago
You are so correct Father....I do believe on what you are saying....I was watching other videos of women ordination and that is just so crazy....I am glad that my Diocese which is Diocese of Saginaw have a good Bishop to ordain men, not WOMEN....my local Bishop is Bishop Joseph Cistone and our past Bishop is Bishop Carlson which he is now Archbishop of St. Louis,Mo. God Bless you!
Andrewcarey87 2 years ago
"The soul travels from life to life. " CRACKPOT!!! For that matter, my soul was a '69 Camaro SS before it was in my body. And before that, I was Mt. Everest! Soon I may just be a moon rock.
UTTER HERESY!
maxcactus7 2 years ago
@maxcactus7 One does not return in an animal or mountain or insect, but in another human embodiment, either male or female and from many different cultures and races. Get a grip on your sense of reality.
ruach2351 1 year ago
heretics will burn in hell
Califman831 2 years ago
Yes he had great woman disciples, and many were stronger in their faith than the apostles but Christ never chose any woman to be apostles, the apostles were the only ones ordained by Christ. Shame on you Father.
jayhawkcolin 2 years ago
Father, you are misleading and wrong. What makes "sense to you" does not make sense to the Pope. He speaks for all of us as Roman Catholics. I would not want you in my parish.
SanLUZARDO 2 years ago
this priest must have slept through theology class.
meunke 2 years ago
Yeah, those early Christians were REALLY timid about challenging social conventions. Peer pressure was a big problem for them.
Nevermind that all the pagan religions surrounding the Church had priestesses.
tpellman 2 years ago
I like Fr peter. But he isent a Catholic and shouldnt pretend he is, as there are many who do.
Peter is the sole authority of the church and one day he may allow women priests, but until that day . The answer is NO.
Im not sure why FR Peter is wearing a Roman Collar.
spartacus6839 3 years ago
1 Corinthians 7: 32 - 35
GML67 3 years ago
Men do not have babies. Ladies do not become priests.
kpman 3 years ago
@kpman This is severely biased thinking. Mother Mary was the Queen of Heaven and a woman and the leader of the Apostles for the time she remained on earth after Jesus ascended.
ruach2351 1 year ago
Your No Catholic priest!
billjkahn 3 years ago
@billjkahn I am a real priest of Jesus and Mother Mary.
ruach2351 1 year ago
If you presume to be a Catholic priest. Then you need to ask yourself WHY? If you are in a Catholic diocesan parish, you KNOW what the Church teaches about women being ordained...THEY CAN'T. God does NOT change, nor His commandments. If Christ wanted a woman in the priesthood, His own Mother would have been at the Last Supper being ordained along with the 12 Apostles. You, "father" and many like you are the reason why the Church is in its present state. Obey or decipher your "true" calling!
billjkahn 3 years ago 2
@billjkahn Mother Mary was in the other room at the Last Supper and Jesus served her communion while the Apostles waited for Jesus to come back from serving her. She is the High Priest along with Jesus of the whole of Christianity. The church used to state infallibly that the world was flat - remember. That was a Papal decree which was obviously wrong.
ruach2351 1 year ago
Are you a member of the Old Catholic Church? I'm severely confused :D
ChrisK513 3 years ago
You are Wrong. And spreading UNTRUTH. 1. a women cannot be a "priest" in any church and will N E V E R be ordained so. The word priest is gender specific, a woman may become a "priestess". 2. Now, find for me in sacred scripture a priestess in Jewish/Christian history?
mmmail1969 3 years ago
@mmmail1969 We ordain women as priests and they demonstrate more integrity and purity than the vast numbers of male priests who have so sensually indulged themselves on each other and raping young children. Jesus would condemn the impurity in the priests and would definitely in today's world endorse and empower women to enter into the priesthood, as we already do.
ruach2351 1 year ago
@ruach2351 Firstly, your statement regards the "vast numbers" of priests having "senaually indulged" is plainly an untruth. The vast majority of Priests (I presume you mean Roman Catholic) would never participate in such wrongful acts and to suggest otherwise is nothing short of stupidity - indeed, if you are correct, then the vast majority (your words again) of police are corrupt, teachers are corrupt, bank tellers are corrupt, fire-fighters are corrupt etc - plainly stupid! (cont)
mmmail1969 1 year ago
@mmmail1969 You need to research the numbers. There were 5000 priests in the United States alone and 4800 of those were indicted or accused of sexually abusing children - pedophilia. Some died before they could be indicted and some left the country. That makes for 15% as a conservative estimate of pedophiles. That number is higher than in any other profession or vocation. Total corruption.
ruach2351 1 year ago
@ruach2351 in addition to your need for a substantial retraining in theology, also get some help with your math! ASAP....
mmmail1969 1 year ago
@ruach2351 Secondly, you completely fail to understand the most basic of issues before you. You have NOT ordained any female priest - no one ever has. You may well have ordained priestesses - something with no basis in Jewish-Chrisitan heritage or theological teaching - why you would do so is your business and of no concern nor interest to me as a Roman Catholic whatsoever!
I wish you well.
mmmail1969 1 year ago
@mmmail1969 Women are being ordained priests all the time and I have ordained quite a few who are completely trained and carry the authority of the Divine Word.
ruach2351 1 year ago
Ordination of women is forbidden. Ex Cathedra. Any priestly dissent of that is blasphemy. Ordination of homosexuals and other deviates has wreaked havoc from the inside out on the Church.
xplund 3 years ago
@xplund Perhaps if the church had humbled itself to ordain women, there would not have been so much pedophilia and sexual abuses from the male priests. The latest condemnation by the Pope against women priests is shameful and a lack of contrition and honesty with regard to the shame and remorse he should be expressing for all of the thousands of priests that hurt so many people. To throw mud at women who want to join the priesthood is the worst sort of hypocrisy..
ruach2351 1 year ago
@ruach2351 Perhaps if the church had not taken a "Don't ask don't tell" policy on homosexuals pursuing "vocations" in the wake of Vatican II we would not have the problem with pedophilia. Your criticism of the Holy Father is shameful. Perhaps you're more suited for the Episcopal "church".
xplund 1 year ago
@xplund Anyone who connects Women priests with pedophilia is a little crazy and not in touch with the 21st century.
ruach2351 1 year ago
@ruach2351 I don't recall making that connection, "Father" Peter.
xplund 1 year ago
Hello, Father Peter, I find your videos very refreshing and honest.I just wish that the rest of christianity would stop tearing one another apart with there silly petty arguments about women and homosexuals and start to teach about Gods love for us.
People seem to use scripture and the Bible for anything but this Love and people are being driven away from the mainstream Churches because of this.
Good luck in all you do
N Townend Southend on Sea UK
nigeltownend 3 years ago
Ah, I rejoice when I find a soul like you! It is so true that people who want to find love and unity are finished with the mainstream denominations, and they are noticing the drop in numbers. Some have awakened, and some have not. Getting stuck in prejudice and tradition is fine if you want to be a Pharisee, but Jesus' ministry was to offer true spirituality instead of dogmatic rules for no good reason.
hollywoodartchick 2 years ago
this is blasphemy against the true Catholic fatih. Priests are meant to be men because Christ chose men to be his apostles. It's as simple as that.
brisky32 3 years ago 17
You have obviously never had children or you could not disrespect the feminine as much as you apparently do. Gender is just a body and since souls have had many bodies of both genders, what you say makes no sense. A few lifetimes ago, you were in a female body, did that make you without any authority or power because of your gender?
ruach2351 3 years ago
you imply reincarnation, which is not part of the Christian faith. You cannot pick and choose parts of religions to make your own religion. Reincarnation comes from Hinduism and Buddhism, not Christianity. We have one life, one body meant for one soul: our soul. Therefore what you just said cannot apply to this argument if we are still talking about Christianity.
brisky32 3 years ago 7
You are arguing within a dogmatic assertion of doctrine, not true mystical experience.Most of the saints had mystical experiences that were not originally accepted as being consistent with church doctrine. Some have had experiences of other lives, some not. You do not know you have only one life because you do not know the others yet. The soul travels from life to life.
ruach2351 3 years ago
remember how deceitful the devil is in tricking us to believe what is false as what is true. All mystical experiences do not come from the love and revelation of God but some of the forces of evil. If you believe Christianity belives in reincarnation, then you are contradicting what Our Lord Jesus Christ said many times in the bible of the fires of Hell for those whose works are evil. With reincarnation, there is no need for Hell to exist therefore putting a contradiction on one another.
brisky32 3 years ago
i wonder why you didn't let my last comment get posted or reply to it at least through message.. Do not search for God through the ways and logic of this world, the valley of tears. If you really want to find the Truth, God, pray without ceasing. May Jesus be Praised and Adored.
brisky32 3 years ago
No sir. I disagree. The magisterium of the Catholic Church was obviously followed by the saints. If not, why would the Roman Catholic Church find them to be Holy? (Sanctus) As far as reincarnation is concerned....why would God place us back to earth to suffer if there is a place to be in complete happiness outside of mortal comprehension?
Mewzisan2002 3 years ago
@Mewzisan2002 The saints were experiencing so much grace and gifts of the Spirit and that had nothing to do with dogmatic teachings or established accepted teachings. Those experiences were given by God, Jesus or Mary and had nothing to do with theology or ideology. Only the connection to God mattered and not any explanations. Then the saints were persecuted and feared and disrespected until they had to be accepted by the church because of the miracles that came through them.
ruach2351 1 year ago
I feel I need to clarify the first part of my previous comment. The TEACHINGS from the magisterium are what the saints followed.
Mewzisan2002 3 years ago
this is heresy! the fact that you are a preist simply shows the corruption of the v2 church. This is an outrage. God our father has rules and those rules are meant to be followed. You have no place in the true catholic faith. this is an outrage, now i understand why so many fell from the catholic faith since the 60's, because satanists like you took over.
exiledfenian 2 years ago
@exiledfenian You should be far more concerned about the 15% pedophiles in the Catholic Priesthood and not so much straining at the small stuff of reincarnation or not.
ruach2351 1 year ago
@ruach2351 15%??? actually the number is far greater. The fact that homosexualality and pedophilia has invaded the false V2 church is just another sign from god, showing us its filth and corruption. Small stuff like reincarnation you say? or ordaining women? nothing, and i mean nothing is small when it goes against the faith. Nothing is small when what you are teaching is heresy.
exiledfenian 1 year ago
@ruach2351 Catholics (true Catholics anyway) do not belive in reincarnation.
cyberslayer002 1 year ago
@cyberslayer002 yes, most Christians don't because they were not taught that truth.
ruach2351 1 year ago
"Blasphemy"? Really do you really hate women that much? Women are equal and very strong in mind and spirit. In other Christian traditions women serve as priests and even Bishops, so what is the problem? Are they going to hell? I don't think so. Was Mary Magdalene, less of an apostle than Andrew or James? What about all the women around Jesus? Apparently Jesus had no problem with women. So why is it for you?
NativeNewYorkGuy 2 years ago
@brisky32
In that case, I would ask all non-Jewish male Catholic priests to resign and make way for Jews from Israel, seeing as Jesus chose Jewish men from Israel to be his apostles.
See how silly this tradition has gotten?
Rickyrab 1 year ago
@Rickyrab The Jews do not believe in Jesus.
ruach2351 1 year ago
By what authority do you speak, that anyone should follow you or pay attention to you? You're just another of a long string of failed gnostics who couldn't agree with one another what to eat for lunch, much less what is "truth" (in the immortal words of Pontius Pilate).
Of course, I expect that your response will probably be to call be "intolerant," since the ad hominem and other fallacies of logic are the classic recourses for those who cannot support their argument.
Audinos 3 years ago
I will answer you if you tell me whether you love those who do not believe the way you do. Or do you harden your heart and hate those who are not on your boat? Answer that honestly and I will tell you by what authority I do what I do and teach what I teach.
ruach2351 3 years ago
women can not be a preist she is not a father but a mother can we say hey father theresa what a herecy you are excomminicated and are not catholic do not use the term catholic orthodox or anything a like liberal catholic mayby but not roman catholic nor orthodox
gilbertobesanko 3 years ago
What kind of love are you manifesting with your intolerance and pride? I never said I was orthodox or Roman Catholic. I wouldn't want to be that considering the kind of angry and hostile people who have been representing those institutions lately.Love you enemies, said Jesus.
ruach2351 3 years ago
I understand that Benedict XVI has Excommunicated them, but what about the Bishops... why are they not enforcing the Excommunication (or suspensions) the same way the did when priests refused to celebrate the Novus Ordo Mass???
My brother in-law (who wants to become a priest) told me that a nun (in San Antonio) was defending womanpriests in the Church, and so far she continues to give instruction there to priest candidates.
Can someone explain why Bishops allow this??
AMDG
garciadelacadena 3 years ago
I don't think you're a Catholic priest.
nuduaspiaggia 3 years ago
Father Peter should join the Episcopal church if he is a Catholic priest because claiming to be Catholic and ignoring Catholic teaching in light of the "inner light" against human reason is the working definition for gnosticism, a 2nd century heresy. That being said, we should keep Charity in mind by not condemning this man. Instead we should respectfully and patiently point out the the Church is infallible in Magisterial teaching and that this gnosticism is an ancient aberration & nothing new.
camasta23m 3 years ago 2
I am not catholic. I am under Jesus Christ directly by divine revelation. I don't need to join anything since I am a servant of Jesus and Mary and I answer to them, not to some ecclesiastical body of sophists and hypocrites.
No human teaching is infallible. Only God is.
ruach2351 3 years ago
You can be infallibly right or infallibly wrong. The Magisterium is guilty of false teaching.
Yes women should be ordained as they were in the days of the House Churches. That being said, NO POPE OR BISHOP CAN OVERTURN APOSTOLIC TRADITION.
Under decrees from the Council of Constance, Popes, Magisterium @ teaching are subject to review by a general council of laity known as an eccumenical council...which can be called at any time..to eliminate bad governance. Laity can & must correct error.
13mns 3 years ago
Either one hears God and because of our love for God, obeys. Obey means to hear. Or one is listening to other voices and desires besides God. Historical laws of the church may or may not be valid, but then the lawyers have to get involved. Jesus always screamed at the lawyers, remember?
ruach2351 3 years ago
if u study history of the church u will be ashamed of what u commented. i did but im stil a catholic becoz i understan the relationshp of Jesus and me thru the sacraments not by obedient to the pope. ur def. of catholicism is being obedient to the hierarchical not hold fast to what has been belived everywhere, always and by all. ignorance is pride of saying only the roman Church will go to heaven. you have the reason to be Catholic becoz majority of our brethren are bow down to the pope only.
innomineIesu 3 years ago
I am not under the authority of the Pope, nor would I want that. I am directly under Jesus and Mother Mary. It is a relationship and not a belief system. I am not sure what you are saying as it is so unclear.
ruach2351 3 years ago
lol...of coz u aint sure coz i direct my comment reply to camasta23m not to you ruach. anyway PAX!
innomineIesu 3 years ago
You are not catholic. if you are, you are incorrect and should be excommunicated. at mass, the priest acts in the person of Jesus, as he did at the last supper. Jesus was a man. Jesus could have ordained women, but he chose not to because he knew a woman could not act as him ( a man).
Robert101140 3 years ago 3
Have you asked Jesus about this misconception that a woman can not act with authority and spiritual consciousness? You are speculating about women from fear.
I am glad I am not catholic, since this kind of rigidity is exactly against love and what Christ taught.
Father Peter
ruach2351 3 years ago
Actually only a few men throughout the ages have acted like Jesus, and mostly not the priests in the churches. Usually the saints, many of which were not priests.
ruach2351 3 years ago
"I never claimed to be one."
Enough said. Lets just pray for them while they play "priests."
labota51 3 years ago
Twisting my words will not make you more loving or more spiritual. I said I was not a catholic priest. Please stop trying to cause enmity by expressing anger and hatred. Didn't Jesus teach against that kind of behavior?
Father Peter
ruach2351 3 years ago
Father Peter is NOT a Catholic priest!
intoto2007 3 years ago
I never claimed to be one. I am, however, a real priest, ordained under the authority of Jesus Christ and Mother Mary. They know who I am. If you have a relationship with them, you can ask them yourself. If you don't have that close a relationship with them, then you should get one.
ruach2351 3 years ago
He could be an Orthodox Christian priest or Coptic priest. People back off him. It seems like he is a preist but regardless he is a servant of God like any of us are and he is just trying to do good for us all. Lets just back off one another and call it a day
dogelan 3 years ago
Read his posts. He teaches reincarnation, which no branch of Orthodox, Catholic, or Protestant Christianity accepts as dogmatic. Whatever his past may have been, he's just another New Age gnostic who has discarded belief in what "is" true in favour of what "feels" true. If you disagree, you'll simply be dismissed as "rigid" or "intolerant," since nothing beats a good ad hominem when you're out of ammo.
Audinos 3 years ago 4
Since dogma is your instructor, you will have to be faithful to your beliefs instead, as you ought to be, faithful to the real Teachers _ Jesus and Mother Mary. Jesus taught reincarnation by saying that John the Baptist was Elijah. Remember, the Baptist was born of Elizabeth who was too old to bear children and John was 6 months old when Jesus was born? Did you forget that passage? Elijah was John the Baptist reincarnated, which means he was alive as a soul in a body before.
ruach2351 3 years ago
John the Baptist was in the spirit of Elijah. It dosen't mean in any way reincarnation. And of course dogma is an instructer, as JPII says that dogmas are beacons of light upon the road to heaven. You cannot trust alway what "feels" good, as the bible itself says that we ourself cannot be trusted or our thoughts. Its only God's word that matters, not personal thoughts.
CreedChrist 3 years ago
Rome does not speak for Jesus. Jesus speaks for himself in the lives of those who really bear his fruits. Doctrines are not entrance pass into the kingdom of God. Jesus said. "Judge not, lest you be judged." I assume there is one New TEstament.
ruach2351 4 years ago
Luke 10
16 He that heareth you, heareth me; and he that despiseth you, despiseth me; and he that despiseth me, despiseth him that sent me.
and Jesus did not tell us to not judge. He told us to judge justly.
evi410 4 years ago
the Holy Father most certainly does speak for Jesus, "He who hears u, hears Me!"
evi410 4 years ago
Woah woah wait a minute buster. Rome doesn't speak for Jesus but you do believe that the Vatican is put in place to guide us as Christians, correct?
Peter is the cornerstone on which the Lord's church would be built. It says it in the Bible. Peter means rock. Peter= 1st Pope
After all your name is Peter!
dogelan 3 years ago
Unfortunately many church leaders no longer speak personally to Jesus and so do not hear His voice any more. That is really sad for Jesus who continues to try to teach humanity. But there are little voices that know Jesus personally. I am one of those.
Father Peter
ruach2351 3 years ago
The man admits he's not Catholic, as if that were necessary. The Vicar of Christ would have us pray for him. Let's be charitable.
wandalewlandowska 3 years ago 2
I disagree. St. Paul said women shouldn't speak in church. Women have no place in the church services.
Tony1584 4 years ago
It appears you are living 2000 years ago in a time when the fragile aspect of men's egos could not face women having spiritual authority. Things have definitely changed and Jesus and Paul would definitely ordain women, and do today.
ruach2351 4 years ago
Our Lord;s Truth does not change. Scripture does NOT need to keep up with the times. these people are heretics and they are leading others into hell. and their "holy orders" are NOT valid.
evi410 4 years ago
Jesus was clear when he warned people to not judge by appearances or actually to judge not at all, or you will be judged. You don't know enough spiritually to judge whether an ordination is real. You only have your books and your doctrine. But you would need spiritual sight ot know if something was real. You don't get that by reading. By their fruits you will know them.
ruach2351 4 years ago
Jesus di not say don't judge. He said judge justly. and i KNOW that those ordinations are not valid b/c the Church, which can not teach error, says that ONLY man can receive Holy Orders. Rome has spoken the matter is closed.
there disobedience will be severely punished.
evi410 4 years ago
You need to look at church history VERY carefully before you say that the church can not teach error.
dprattli 3 years ago
I said the church has taught many errors throughout history.
ruach2351 3 years ago
I am not pushing my way into a ministry that is corrupt. I am one of the servants of God and of Jesus and Mary, who has been raised up by them and not by some stodgy institution.
ruach2351 4 years ago
Trying to assert or push your way into a ministry instituted by Christ will NEVER validate your foppery
Snookyfritz 4 years ago
What a load of hogwash. Why are you trying to pass yourself off as a Catholic priest? Identity crisis?
englishcatholic 4 years ago
I am not trying to pass myself off as a catholic priest, but I am a real priest and not just a hypocrite.
ruach2351 4 years ago
Yeah EC, didn't you know he's a real priest? I mean in his own mind.
practicingcatholic2 4 years ago
Thank you father for sharing a voice of reason... We need a progressive voice to keep us from going backwards!
hailscott123 4 years ago
You are very welcome.
ruach2351 4 years ago
Blablablabla. Women cannot be ordained priests and deacons because God became man (Jesus Christ), and every minister of Christ after valid ordination shares in the hypostasis of the divinity and humanity in Christ, and this sharing is the power in the priesthood. Therefore only males can become priests. Women can become abesses, queens, artists, singers etc. But not priests. That is the Roman Catholic Faith. Basta.
IustitiaPax 4 years ago
Hello! A priest is the PERSONA CHRISTI on earth, and since Christ was both wholly MAN (human) (and wholly God), a priest can only be male.
lawheaduno 4 years ago
Wow! You really think a little too highly of men. They are mostly kind of clumsy and not in touch with their feelings and still think they are developed spiritually. Mother Mary comes to mind as the most evolved and perfect expression of the priesthood besides Jesus.
ruach2351 4 years ago
Take off that collar, you are no priest. You insult my faith!
masumi5 4 years ago
If your faith was being practiced like Jesus taught, then you would have love for your enemies. Since you feel I am your enemy, then you are required by Jesus Christ to love me. Since you don't, you are not a disciple of Jesus. That is what he taught.
Father Peter
ruach2351 4 years ago
There are many people out there that make their own church, them call themselves Father or ever Bishop Whatever. It's just silly. Anyone who knows scripture and Church history knows this guy is not quite right.
practicingcatholic 4 years ago
I guess it depends on what Jesus says about me that counts. Have you asked Jesus about me?
Then you will understand. But if you can't ask him and can't hear him, why should anyone listen to you?
ruach2351 4 years ago
If you know about Christ and His Church and read the scriptures, that is enough to know what you are supporting is not right. Jesus speaks to us through His word and His Church. He doesn't have to come to you in a cloud or dream or manifest Himself everytime you have a question, but He tells us to obey and believe His word, then that is enough. You must do the same or you are deceiving yourself. Don't believe the father-of-lies.
practicingcatholic 4 years ago
Again you are in belief land and relying on scriptures, which will not get you to the experience of union with God or a relationship with God. That can only be done through connecting to God in your heart. jesus said, "Search the scriptures for in them you think you find eternal life." It was misquoted as he stated in the Poem of the Man-God by Maria Valtorta. The churches changed his teaching here nad he has changed it back to what he actually said.
ruach2351 4 years ago
I do have a personal relationship with Jesus. But to be ignorant of scripture is to be ignorant of Christ. And once again, the problem with those like you who claim to know Him more fully than anyone else can say Jesus told them whatever. And we're supposed to believe it. Nice try. If what you say goes against scripture and the Church, you are misguided.
practicingcatholic 4 years ago
You think scripture is THAT pristine, huh? And the Church as authentic spirituality? You are among the masses of sheeple who know very little about the true nature of the Catholic Church that controls you.
I also doubt your *personal relationship with Jesus; very much so, actually. Keep on fearing God!
Levi00814 4 years ago
Father Peter's responses were SO patient and beyond anything most of us could tolerate, sadly enough. The responses left me with a stomach ache and a feeling that there was only anger and stubborness involved. Where's the Love, Light and guidance for ANY of us in these tirades?
Keep it simple -
Beftefur
beftefur 4 years ago
Could you show me anything in scripture, Sacred Tradition or anything from the early Church Fathers or Doctors of the Church.
practicingcatholic 4 years ago
Wow where do I start?, There is not now, never has been, nor ever will be women priests. If a Bishop attempts (yes attempts as it is not possible) to ordain a woman, then he is not in good standing. If a real bishop does lay his hands on a woman, a tree or a cow, or whatever it does not matter. He cannot ordain them. Also when a woman acting as a priest says the words of consecration, guess what happens......
...............that's right ..NOTHING.
Please accept what is.
practicingcatholic 4 years ago
You would have to know Jesus personallyl to know that he was very empowering of women and except for the fear in men at that time and century, would have ordained them because many were able to serve that way.
ruach2351 4 years ago
I do know Him personally. And yes He had women around him, but they were not put in positions of authority now were they? And if you say they were, show proof. Now aside from that, did you ever have hands laid on you by someone with authority to ordain. And don't say Jesus, because we both know He did not tell you personally.
practicingcatholic 4 years ago
I was ordained by one who had such authority.
ruach2351 4 years ago
That's informative. Where did he get his or HER authority. I'm sorry, but this is just getting silly. You can't answer so you play games. Let me know if you ever have a real answer.
practicingcatholic 4 years ago
I did not see these comments until recently and did not know how to approve of them. So here they all are. Not to worry.
ruach2351 4 years ago
Timothy was obviously a little rigid and thus human and so I would take some of what he said with a cultural grain of salt. The disciples were human. Mother Mary was blessed above every woman and thus above most men in fact. There has been no one more spiritually evolved than she, beside Jesus. Christianity comes of age witht his understanding. It is only heresy like the idea that the world is flat used to be.
ruach2351 4 years ago
We have many women priests in our Order who are fullyl empowered by God to heal, to forgive sins and perform the Sacraments and to teach and counsel. The men of old were too stodgy and narrow-minded to tolerate that 2000 years ago and of course ousted all the women deacons in very short order. If you would tap into your experience as a soul, you would find that you have lived many lives in both male and female bodies.
ruach2351 4 years ago
Fr. Peter. Respectfully, what on earth are you talking about?!? At what point, precisely, in Catholic church history were women considered lower beings? Can you name a church document that lays this out for me to read? At what point were they considered weak? Mary was conceived without sin and assumed into HEAVEN body and soul. Which, precisely, of the apostles received such a grace? God seeks holiness in mankind, not power. I think you've gone loopy!
SaintJoachime 4 years ago
Deacons in the CAtholic church were demoted a number of times and whereas they used to teach, were relegated to servant type duties over time. Mother Mary was the highest being ever to walk in a feminine body and thus without sin and perfect. Some women dsciples were honored and many were maligned.
ruach2351 4 years ago
No, Women are not priests because the priest represents Jesus who was a man. Women were diciples (just like lay people today) but no women were apostles who were the first priests and bishops. You are a heretic and I pray for your conversion. God Bless!
thedavidwilson 4 years ago
Thanks for your prayers, I can always use them. Mother Mary was a High Priest and was consulted by the Apostles for many years in the early church. I have been converted. It is not hard to imagine a dynamic priest or bishop in a female body, since many people have been in both genders over many lifetimes.
ruach2351 4 years ago
Uh...I don't think Mary ever celebrated mass or forgave sins. Could you point to this in sacred tradition?
thedavidwilson 4 years ago
I agree that Mother Mary did not offer communion. but many times she has forgiven sins and continues to do that with Her grace and compassion for people. I have personally experienced Her doing that many times, just as Jesus did. Ask Her yourself and see if She has the power to do that. You will be surprised. But you would have to break out of your conceptual box and open your heart to