Mark Shea's On The Ball

Mary Casio has this to say on the article Women Priests? by Mark Shea.

I agreed with Mr Mark Shea about the so call "right" of women to be ordained priest. But I think this topic also can be narrowed down in a simple way when recalling what we were taught in our Baltimore Catechism. Every Sacrament has a matter and a form. The matter for the Eucharist is bread and wine, not Coca Cola and gram crackers. The matter for Matrimony is a man and a women, not two men, or two women. The matter for Holy Orders is a man. This is divine law, not Church law. In other words the pope cannot change something that is divine law. I cannot Baptize my cat.

Many Catholics of all ages did not understand the difference between Church law and divine law. So after Vatican II and many the changes we saw in Church law after centuries, sadly enough many left the Faith because they could not understand why what they were taught as children is now thrown by the way side. Then when leaving the Sacraments, and losing the graces we receive from the Sacraments lead them into a state of venerability to sin. But back to the ordination of women, the Church has had many women who certainly didn't need to be priests to "move mountains." Look at Mother Teresa. Mother Teresa and many like her NEVER felt she needed to be a priests, or was denied her rights because she couldn't become one.

I have to truly wonder about any one (women) who thinks they need to be a priest, or they're being denied their "rights." But I have an idea of who would put this kind of egotistical thought in to their minds.