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Friday, October 1, 2010

Media ordain female priests

By Rob Vischer

Time Magazine has published an eyebrow-raising article about the Church's refusal to ordain women as priests (eyebrow-raising because of its one-sidedness, not because of the subject).  Greg Kandra comments, as does Get Religion.

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If, as Kandra says, "Intelligent people can disagree about whether or not the Church's stand on this issue is theologically sound or socially just," then I don't think anyone can declare that saying Alta Jacko is an ordained priest is equivalent in truth value to saying she is a starting pitcher for the Yankees. It seems to me that she may indeed be an ordained priest.

I am not sure why inaccurate religion reporting (when it actually is accurate, and not just unflattering) makes some people so angry. I was very directly involved in an event (nonreligious) that was reported in Time Magazine and the New York Times, and I would say the coverage was about 80% accurate. They got the gist of the story right, but the details were garbled.

It does seem to me that any Catholic who thinks boycotting Sunday Mass is an appropriate way to protest against anything done by the Church -- even something clearly and objectively wrong -- does not understand what going to Mass on Sunday is about. If that is the level on which they understand Catholicism, I doubt that they can make a persuasive against the Church's position on ordination.