RELIGION: intuition (OT) ( wasRe: dreaming and remembering)

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--- In , Deanna Wagner <hl@s...>

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> José-,

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> > I don't think it is linked with

> >matriarchy, because I see most of Latin American as very

patriarchal,

> >even more than the Anglo-Saxon world. So maybe here is another

reason

> >for the devotion to : it was the women's attempt to restore a

lost

> >balance with the males through the influence of religion.

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> What do you think about ordaining women priests?

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> Deanna

Oh Deanna:

Now I seem to realize that religion is really the hottest subject

ever.

You bring up a very intriguing question. It leads me directly into

celibacy. I don't agree with the obligation of celibacy, though I

believe in chastity. So maybe the first point should be: why not

liberate Catholic priests from celibacy? It is all right if they

choose it, but I don't think they should be obliged to embrace it, as

it were.

As for ordaining women, I really don't see any problem. In fact, I

would long/work for it if I were a member of the Catholic Church,

even as a male. The only caution is that it would be better for a

woman to be ordained after her children, if she had any, were big

enough not to be dependent on her any more. Well, this is the way our

society functions, you know: children and mothers form an inseparable

set. In order to dedicate herself to spiritual matters, I think a

woman must be in a certain way child-free, but I can be wrong.

José

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