Florence Hensley and companions minutes after practicing mass
Medford, OR––Speaking at a Women’s Rights group at the home of fellow parishioner Florence Hensley of Medford, Oregon this week, 58-year-old Roger Shannahan complained that the group was being sexist for unjustly excluding men from the group’s hopes of a female priesthood. “I mean, you could see in the early Church numbers of male figures that held positions of authority,” Shannahan told the group. “St. Paul was a man, for instance. He had authority, right? So, if St. Paul was a man and had authority, why wouldn’t I be able to have it?” Hensley, who hosts the weekly Women’s Rights group, told Eye of the Tiber after the meeting that men cannot be considered, not because men are unequal, only because it is not in a man’s nature to become a female priest. But Shannahan believes otherwise, telling Eye of the Tiber that the group has always overlooked men simply because of the group’s own insecurities. “I’m sick and tired of sitting on the sidelines. I too have a voice.”
I have called you Sister and even Mother but I be Dammed if I am going to call you Father!
Have these bigots never heard of gender identity? Or that all that is required for one to have a female gender identity is to self-identify as female? How dare these women exclude genetic-males from the female-priesthood on such a flimsy & antiquated basis. Their self-serving prejudice must be exposed for what it is …
Ontologically speaking, men are invalid matter for ordination to the female priesthood.
For a title, I suggest “Fs.” (pronounced “Fizz”), a combination of “Fr.” and “Ms.”.
That picture is whack!
…except that I think at least one of those is actually a man, baby.
Congratulations!!! You are now episcopalians.
Most look gay.
Those ‘stoles’ look as if they have bar codes on them. I wonder what they are selling?
Or perhaps they are Fraunhofer spectra of nearby stars
Sorry, you are too late. The American Episcopal Church already allowed this at their General Convention earlier this year.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/mobileweb/2012/07/09/episcopal-church-transgender-ordination_n_1660465.html
Why can’t men be nuns?
Father, they might let a transgendered man become a nun, and even use the women’s bathroom in the parish school.
Is that 5 priestesses and 1 deaconess, or is one of them just making a fasion statement?
I think you oversaw in your count the one either dressed bishop-like or according to a more barroque fashion
Anyway, the picture is worthy of Bad Vestment. Ms. Jeffreys Shory (sp?) influence is too obvious
The article doesn’t tell us if this man is transgendered.
Oh my, these poor deluded heretics. May God have mercy on their souls.
How does one qualify to become a Deaconess, versus a Priestess? Is it simply a matter of not wanting to bear the responsibilty of a higher Sacrilege against God and His Church?
Ouch…lol!
With all respect……this is the LEAST I want to hear and see! Women are NOT meant to be priests. I personally DO NOT EVEN dare to receive Holy Communion from women; I would rather NOT receive the Holy Communion. Sorry about this but this is what I believe. No disrespect to females.