![]() ![]() If anyone has any doubts as to whether ordination is necessary for leadership and influence in the Church, they need look no further than the media mogul nun herself to be proven wrong, said Catholic talk show host and media consultant Teresa Tomeo. God has designed that men be priests, and we can't afford to deny God his sovereign rights," she said, as recalled in her biography by Raymond Arroyo. "As it is women have more power in the Church than anybody. ![]() "Women in the priesthood, that's just a power play, that's ridiculous," Mother Angelica said the next day. During the 1987 papal trip, the EWTN Network took on the then-unprecedented task of live, unedited, constant coverage of the Holy Father's visit.Īnd when word reached the spunky nun of the Milwaukee bishop's remarks to the Pope during the trip, she couldn't help but chime in with her opinion. Meanwhile in Alabama, a woman of the Church named Mother Angelica had just thrown her cable network, which reached more than 2 million homes at the time, into 24-hour coverage territory. They seek a church where the gifts of women are equally accepted and appreciated.where the feminine is no longer subordinate but seen in a holistic mutuality with the masculine as forming the full image of the Divine," he said. "Women seek…(a church) that teaches and shows by example the co-discipleship of the sexes as instruments of God's kingdom. One of four chosen representatives, Archbishop Rembert Weakland of Milwaukee, spoke to the pope about female ordination: The Pope was greeted in the City of Angels by a closed-door meeting with a group of progressive bishops who had a bone to pick with several Church traditions. It was September 1987, and Pope John Paul II had just arrived in Los Angeles after traveling around the United States. ![]()
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