The unlikely but clear communion of the SSPX and women priests | |
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| The SSPX’s newly ordained and excommunicated bishops and the Association of Roman Catholic Women Priests have more in common than either side might like to admit — both placed themselves outside communion by their own act, both insist Rome is wrong, and both claim the name Catholic anyway. The men were ordained validly but illicitly, the women invalidly — though it’s fair to ask whether that’s splitting hairs, or just another name for sexism. The harder questions pile up from there: are both prophetic, or neither? Which has violated more canons, and does the count even matter once both have effectively edged out the pope as supreme lawgiver? Would a joint statement on “Rome’s wrongness” actually hold them together, or expose how little else they agree on? Then there are a few practical questions that arise – the SSPX prays for the pope by name in the Eucharistic prayer, but with no diocese of their own, what happens at “together with N. our Bishop”? Do they put a period after “Leo, our Pope”? The real question underneath all the questions: could the two groups ever concelebrate the Eucharist together, or even call a joint council — and if neither would sit down with the other, despite sharing the same irregular status, what does that say about where either of them is actually headed? Read William C Graham’s in-depth analysis on questions raised about the SSPX, Women Priests, and communion. | |
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