Is there anything else you wish people knew?
It's important to me that people see that I did what the men do who prepare for the priesthood. I took that traditional path. I got my master's of divinity. I was a deacon for 10 months. I just wish more Catholics who find themselves alienated from the church could find a church home. If the ECC could be that church home for them, I'd be so excited for them.
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Posted By: dva_tsenta @ 05/09/2008 1:13:57 AM
Comment: +1 - This woman is not a Catholic at all, much less a Catholic priest. She is very mistaken and lost. I wish journalists would be more precise with their wording - misleading information like that in this article could lead those who know nothing or very little of the Catholic Church to incorrect conclusions. I must also object to the following comparison: "It [the Church] does, however, recognize the more than 100 already married men who became priests after a conversion to Roman Catholicism." It is very misleading to juxtapose the Church's recognition of married men (mostly Protestant ministers) who converted to Catholicism and were ordained priests with the woman in question here. The Church's tradition of the celibate priesthood is not written in stone as is the tradition, supported by well-considered theology, of only men being ordained as priests. I hope that the author, Karen Springen, will be more precise in the future.
Posted By: mmsiciliana@dls.net @ 05/08/2008 9:00:51 PM
Comment: Sorry, Jessica Rowley is not a "Catholic" priest. The community she "ministers to is Catholic" in name only. Unlike the Catholic Church, which is the Church founded by Jesus Christ, the organization she belongs to was founded by a human being. The Catholic Church is universal, worldwide, not simply for people who live in Webster Groves, MO. And Jesus did not "welcome everyone to the table." Read what he had to say to the Pharisees who thought they knew how God operated.
Posted By: BATPAX @ 12/03/2007 7:58:55 PM
Comment: i have attended st clare and francis on and off for the past year. i have never felt a church environment so full of god's love. as jessica has stated, EVERYONE is welcome at the table there. the people of this church really live the words of jesus.......really live a life of faith that they joyfully share with everyone. it reminds me what the early christians must have felt---the joy, the faith sharing,the love.........all before organized religion highjacked christianity