VATICAN CITY (Reuters) - Pope Benedict on Thursday re-stated the Roman Catholic Church's ban on women priests and warned that he would not tolerate disobedience by clerics on fundamental teachings.
Benedict, who for decades before his 2005 election was the Vatican's chief doctrinal enforcer, delivered an unusually direct denunciation of disobedient priests in a sermon at a morning Mass on Holy Thursday, the day the Church commemorates the day Christ instituted the priesthood.
The pope responded specifically to a call to disobedience by a group of Austrian priests and laity, who last year boldly and openly challenged Church teaching on taboo topics such as priestly celibacy and women's ordination.
"Is disobedience a path of renewal for the Church?," he asked rhetorically in the sermon of a solemn Mass in St Peter's Basilica on the day Catholic priests around the world renew their vows.
Thursday, April 05, 2012
Disobedience in the Church
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We need a new Pope
ReplyDeleteThanks for reading the blog. Question: Why the desire for a new pope? Even with a new pope, the essential teachings of the Church will not, cannot change. It's been this way for 2,000 years. Even popes cannot change the non-negotiables on faith and morals.
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