ABS is in receipt of an email from Professor Herman NuDix of Continuity College in Rome who takes-up the captious question of whether or not we should consider Ordaining women:
ABS, don’t fear the surprises of The Holy Spirit in her desire to have man pass this latest test of whether or not the Church will continue its misogynistic medieval machinations.
We have the teachings of Pope Saint John Paul II that can help us spiritually slice through this Gordian knot.
Recall that in his “Theology of the Body,: he taught:
That is manifested above all in that stage in which man ('adam) is definitively created as male and female (‘is-‘issah)...Perhaps, therefore, the analogy of sleep indicates here not so much a passing from consciousness to subconsciousness, as a specific return to non-being (sleep contains an element of annihilation of man's conscious existence), that is, to the moment preceding the creation, in order that, through God's creative initiative, solitary "man" may emerge from it again in his double unity as male and female.(3)…In this way, the circle of the solitude of the man-person is broken, because the first "man" awakens from his sleep as "male and female."
In the mystery of creation—on the basis of the original and constituent "solitude" of his being—man was endowed with a deep unity between what is, humanly and through the body, male in him and what is, equally humanly and through the body, female in him
Man's subjectivity is already emphasized through this. It finds a further expression when the Lord God "formed out of the ground every beast of the field and every bird of the air, and brought them to man to see what he would call them" (Gn 2:19). In this way, therefore, the first meaning of man's original solitude is defined on the basis of a specific test or examination which man undergoes before God (and in a certain way also before himself). By means of this test, man becomes aware of his own superiority, that is, that he cannot be considered on the same footing as any other species of living beings on the earth.
So, ABS, let me hear no more of your “That sounds Kabbalistic," but, rather, consider that, like Adam, we are presented with a test that will reveal to us our own nature.
Because man was created male and female, he must embrace the truth that a woman can be a priest just like a man can be and she will be much better at it because compassion and mercy.
