Comments on: NZ Catholic response to Synod’s Continental Stage document published https://nzcatholic.org.nz/2023/01/17/nz-catholic-response-to-synods-continental-stage-document-published/ The New Zealand National Catholic Newspaper Thu, 19 Jan 2023 08:57:04 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.1.1 By: Hamish https://nzcatholic.org.nz/2023/01/17/nz-catholic-response-to-synods-continental-stage-document-published/#comment-90398 Thu, 19 Jan 2023 08:57:04 +0000 https://nzcatholic.org.nz/?p=26440#comment-90398 In reply to Linda.

I concur.
Spiritual giftedness is not exclusively male.
Saintly women have raised the dead, and like
st Catherine of Sienna, doctor of the church
moved the papacy, like no other male.
Doctors of the church are not all male.
Bilocation is not exclusively ordained priesthood.
Mary of Agreda, bilocated more than any male,
Maria Carloni also bilocated.
Incorrupt bodies of women are well known,
including St Cecilia (many centuries), St Catherine
Labouree, St Bernadette of Lourdes and others.
Stigmata is not exclusively male either.
In a world beset by Secular Humanism, mysticism
is valued, and again found in women as well.

]]> By: Linda https://nzcatholic.org.nz/2023/01/17/nz-catholic-response-to-synods-continental-stage-document-published/#comment-90381 Wed, 18 Jan 2023 10:18:26 +0000 https://nzcatholic.org.nz/?p=26440#comment-90381 Women should never have been anything but equal in the church. Men are not more virtuous. Far from it. Would there have been the same level of sexual abuse of children if women were priests? The answer is No! The discrimination, abuse and pomposity of men in the church is intolerable for me as a woman. I cannot relate to the institution. There are no role models for modern women, certainly not the devalued nuns.

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