tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2643714587047748844.post1031229026888961266..comments2023-12-05T22:38:15.929-08:00Comments on Fr. Dennis at the Movies: Band of Sisters [2012]Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2643714587047748844.post-19371256238244559452013-01-21T14:15:07.400-08:002013-01-21T14:15:07.400-08:00To make the point, this is what the Cathechism of ...To make the point, this is what the Cathechism of the Catholic Church says about THE CHURCH BEING THE BRIDE OF CHRIST:<br />http://www.vatican.va/archive/ccc_css/archive/catechism/p123a9p2.htm<br /><br />The Church is the Bride of Christ<br /><br />796 The unity of Christ and the Church, head and members of one Body, also implies the distinction of the two within a personal relationship. This aspect is often expressed by the image of bridegroom and bride. The theme of Christ as Bridegroom of the Church was prepared for by the prophets and announced by John the Baptist.234 The Lord referred to himself as the "bridegroom."235 The Apostle speaks of the whole Church and of each of the faithful, members of his Body, as a bride "betrothed" to Christ the Lord so as to become but one spirit with him.236 The Church is the spotless bride of the spotless Lamb.237 "Christ loved the Church and gave himself up for her, that he might sanctify her."238 He has joined her with himself in an everlasting covenant and never stops caring for her as for his own body:239<br /><br /> This is the whole Christ, head and body, one formed from many . . . whether the head or members speak, it is Christ who speaks. He speaks in his role as the head (ex persona capitis) and in his role as body (ex persona corporis). What does this mean? "The two will become one flesh. This is a great mystery, and I am applying it to Christ and the Church."240 And the Lord himself says in the Gospel: "So they are no longer two, but one flesh."241 They are, in fact, two different persons, yet they are one in the conjugal union, . . . as head, he calls himself the bridegroom, as body, he calls himself "bride."242Dennis Krizhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16913610930132868134noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2643714587047748844.post-51819730780556922362013-01-21T14:06:42.610-08:002013-01-21T14:06:42.610-08:00Elizabeth, I think you miss my point. I'm not...Elizabeth, I think you miss my point. I'm not talking about nuns here, I'm talking about THE CHURCH. One of the images of THE CHURCH is that IT (composed of BOTH men and women) is the BRIDE OF CHRIST. And yet there is no insistence that that THE CHURCH be composed _only_ of women ...Dennis Krizhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16913610930132868134noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2643714587047748844.post-17884482555494155292013-01-21T09:19:23.791-08:002013-01-21T09:19:23.791-08:00Dear Fr Dennis, as a priest you know that signs ma...Dear Fr Dennis, as a priest you know that signs matter. To consecrate the Eucharist you must have wheat bread and grape wine. Rice cakes and beer (or Chartreuse liqueur or whatever else) cannot become the Body and Blood of Christ, and it does not mean rice cakes and beer are bad. It is not discrimination against rice cakes and beer (or Chartreuse). The sign necessary for the Sacrament of Holy Orders is a man. Men and women are not simply interchangeable, thank goodness. Men cannot be Sisters or Nuns either, who are for the Church signs, images, of the Bride of Christ, without this being a Sacrament. If you think men should be allowed to be nuns then go ahead and start that campaign and see where it gets you.Elizabeth Dhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16888400643867182872noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2643714587047748844.post-87622839903448949162013-01-17T16:11:59.270-08:002013-01-17T16:11:59.270-08:00Hi Elizabeth, consider simply that THE CHURCH is s...Hi Elizabeth, consider simply that THE CHURCH is supposed to be THE BRIDE OF CHRIST and yet 1/2 of the members of the Church are male ...Dennis Krizhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16913610930132868134noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2643714587047748844.post-24555354922789866722013-01-17T14:58:33.457-08:002013-01-17T14:58:33.457-08:00"(The young simply _don't understand_ why..."(The young simply _don't understand_ why a woman could be an astronaut, a CEO, a teacher of theology, even a Prime Minister or President but _not_ a Catholic Priest or Bishop) actually goes beyond this question. Women today find themselves at the bottom of the human hierarchy in the Catholic Church's present conception"<br /><br />It is so dismaying to see a priest saying this kind of foolishness. I am a young Catholic woman (34) and I do indeed understand well why a woman cannot be a Catholic priest. It's explained not only by Ordinatio Sacerdotalis, but by common sense precisely from my own perspective as a Catholic woman. A priest, who acts actually in the person of Christ, is sacramentally an image of Christ the Bridegroom of the Church. A woman cannot be an image of a bridegoom, period. As a lay woman privately vowed in celibate chastity for life, Jesus does have the place of Spouse in my life, and a woman is NOT the image of my Spouse, period. I have absolutely no sympathy for the feminist power-politics of wanting to mess with Holy Orders to try to achieve a warped notion of "equality". AS A WOMAN I must strenuously object to the contemporary lies that men and women are simply interchangeable, or that women only have dignity if they take on male roles. What offensive nonsense.<br /><br />According to the filmmaker, this film was created by networking within the dissident group "Call to Action". It's not by any means just about the story of Sisters, but focused specifically on a particular sort of liberal Sisters who threw Catholic doctrine and obedience to the wind, and have created their own new age religion which the film itself shows is not even really Christian anymore, for instance they promote the idea that "one species shouldn't be privileged over others", pantheism/panentheism, and the new cosmology apparently doesn't have a heaven and hell--no need for Jesus our Savior, who is barely mentioned in the film. This film thoroughly illustrates the accuracy of the CDF's LCWR doctrinal assessment and Sr Laurie Brink's famous comment in a speech to the LCWR, about some Sisters "moving beyond Jesus".<br /><br />I saw "Band of Sisters" at the motherhouse of the liberal Sinsinawa Dominican Sisters, and blogged it: http://www.laetificatmadison.com/2013/01/band-of-sisters-documentary-about-liberal-women-religious-premiers-at-sinsinawa-mound/Elizabeth Dhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16888400643867182872noreply@blogger.com