Tribune Preoccupation Wows Me
Written by Katie Wycklendt on September 19, 2007 – 12:30 am - Welcome, if you're new here, you may want to subscribe to our RSS feed or subscribe to our email newsletter. Thanks for visiting!
The Marquette Tribune 2007-2008 staff has been publishing bi-weekly for just under a month now, and made some small waves a few weeks ago when it put out an issue with a blatantly pro-homosexual theme.
That particular issue included a story with a large, brilliant full-color photograph of a lesbian candidate for bishop in the Anglican church.
It appears the Tribune is back at it again. This time, the paper ran an article in its news section about a member of Roman Catholic Woman Priests, an organization that promotes the “ordination” of women as “priests” of the Catholic Church. Once again, we got a large, full-color, smiling photograph of the woman who “wows” us all to go along with the story.
Is someone at the Tribune preoccupied with the idea of women acting as priests? Is a Catholic university’s official newspaper going to continue running stories that sympathize with an anti-Catholic position on an approximately biweekly basis?
Further, if this is what constitutes “news,” perhaps there is really very little going on in the world.
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September 19th, 2007 at 10:11 am
The Milwaukee JS and the Trib are common enemies of the Church.
What’s new?
September 19th, 2007 at 1:03 pm
Are you aware what an education is supposed to be all about? If you want to only consider the things you already know save daddy and mommy some bucks and go work at McDonalds. College years should be about exploring, thinking. and learning. Grow up!
September 19th, 2007 at 2:49 pm
This is back page stuff (at best) or does anyone think these articles represent the most important things we need to be informed about from our school paper? The Tribune is a NEWSPAPER, or at least it’s supposed to be.
Don’t get me wrong, it’s interesting. Nevertheless, this is exactly the kind of coverage that the Drudge Report gets flack for… interesting, but not news.
Still….whose really surprised this kind of thing gets such pronounced coverage from the Tribune?
September 19th, 2007 at 6:23 pm
Man, the trib is so pro-homosexual. They want us all to be gay so bad. Man.
September 19th, 2007 at 6:44 pm
“women actings as priests” ….been a catholic a long time and there’s nary a male who isn’t just “acting.” but, with how the Catholic Church consistently doctors its policy to the lowest common demoninator of its faithful, it’s no shock there’s no lawfully ordained females in the priesthood. is it going to be any less “the body” and “the blood” of christ if it’s a woman calling on God for Transubstantiation? hrmm….nope
September 19th, 2007 at 7:06 pm
If the Tribune was really trying to promote “education,” it would be running stories that promote both sides. Would the Tribune ever run a positive story about the conservative Catholics who do not want to ordain female priests? Would the Tribune ever run a story about how the Episcopalian Church is splintering over the issue, without making those against openly gay priests sound like bigots? I’ll believe it when I see it, but I highly doubt it. Blatant bias is not education, it’s indoctrination.
Also, how does this directly affect Marquette students other than just “feeling good” about being “progressive”? I thought the Marquette Tribune was supposed to place its primary focus on Marquette news. Of course it should run state/national news stories, but I do not see how these stories would be frontpage worthy other than for advancing a liberal agenda.
September 19th, 2007 at 8:49 pm
That article is definitely not front-page material for a college paper, but I have to admit…as a woman on a path to becoming clergy myself (as a rabbi, not a priest), I AM wowed. I wish Iaquinta all the best of luck; she will need it.
The Bible tells me that Miriam was a holy prophet of God, and Deborah a devout and wise judge of Israel. I will never understand why some people are so insistent that God doesn’t choose women for his service.
September 19th, 2007 at 11:01 pm
The woman isn’t really on a path to becoming Catholic clergy, though… just because her organization is called “Roman Catholic Women Priests” does not mean she really is one, and that she said a real Mass. It wasn’t a real Mass - she doesn’t have the power to consecrate the Host…. Vatican says so.
But I bet the people who consider her a real “Catholic woman priest” also think the Chinese government’s version of “catholicism” - the Chinese Patriotic Catholic Association - is really Catholic…. which the Vatican also does not recognize.
September 20th, 2007 at 8:20 am
If the Trib actually were useful, it would run a story which included the theological reasoning behind the Church’s inability to ‘ordain’ PonchoLadies.
Including the history of the order of Melchizidek.
September 20th, 2007 at 8:38 am
Excellent point dad29. That would have been a much more interesting article. Still not front page material but defiantly better reporting.
September 20th, 2007 at 12:49 pm
Yana,
She’s on a path to becoming clergy…whether or not it is Catholic clergy is irrelevant. (How many Protestant sects originated with a group that was merely trying to reform the Church, not break away from it?) Answering God’s call is wow-worthy regardless of the gender or religious affiliation of the answeree. But to me, it is particularly wowing when a woman does it simply because women of any religion will face opposition and dissuasion as clergy, whereas men do not. Heck, Reform Judaism ordained its first rabbanit (woman rabbi) in 1972, and Reform rabbanits still have their work cut out for them: more than ninety percent of rabbanits report being sexually harrassed on the job, and that’s on top of heady opposition and derision from other branches of Judaism. (I quote an Orthodox rabbi on the subject of rabbanit: “Such women are worse than Hitler. Hitler only took Jewish lives, these ‘women rabbis’ are trying to kill the Jewish soul.”)
Best of luck to her, and all others like her! Baruch atah Adonai, eloheinu melech haolam, asher someich nashim l’hagish otcha b’emet…Blessed are you, Lord our God, king of the universe, who ordains women to serve you in truth.
September 22nd, 2007 at 1:41 pm
“But I bet the people who consider her a real “Catholic woman priest†also think the Chinese government’s version of “catholicism†- the Chinese Patriotic Catholic Association - is really Catholic…. which the Vatican also does not recognize.”
In other words, the Jesuits. The Jesuits have done more to “recognize” the Chinese “Church” than any other “Catholic” organization in the world.