Phyllis Zagano’s Amazing Theology
Phyllis Zagano, a regular commenter on this site and an advocate for women’s ordination to the Diaconate, has made an astounding prediction:
But by ordaining women as deacons, the Church would
announce to the world that yes, women are made in
the image and likeness of God.
This statement begs so many questions: Whose image and likeness does the Church say we are made in now? Whose image and likeness are the thousands of canonized women Saints made? Would it really take an action that incurs an automatic latae sententiae excommunication to prove that the Church respects women?
The Mother of God
Most importantly, in whose image and likeness is the Mother of God made?
Stabat Mater, Ora Pro Nobis
Link to this post!
I pray for Zagano and ‘catholics’ like the ones at NCR. Faithful Catholics should do this daily. Please do this before every post where you dissect her comments.
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Here’s the entire comment as printed in the “Religion Dispatches” interview about the new book “Women Deacons: Past, Present, Future” (Paulist, 2012) with me and co-authors Dr. Gary Macy (Santa Clara U.) and Deacon William T. Ditewig (Diocese of Monterey); thanks for the plug!
Thanks for commenting! We all know where the comment came from, there is only one place I could have gotten it. I am sorry, I will not put the excerpt of the interview on my site. The link is in another one of your comments, that’s enough. Tell me Phyllis, why are you fighting so hard for something that will never come to pass? You and I both see the problems in the Church, but unlike you, I know prayer, sacrifice and obedience to the Church is the answer, not fighting the Divinely established rules. What on earth do you think a bunch of feminazis will accomplish aside from disorder and chaos? I still pray for you every day
God bless you,
Catherine
Please calm down and read what I write and say. Even Father Z reads my work. (I wrote “Holy Saturday” at the request of John Cardinal O’Connor, late archbishop of New York.)
http://wdtprs.com/blog/2012/01/stacks/
I didn’t say I wouldn’t read it, I said I wouldn’t put it on my site. This is my site and I decide what is posted on here. I did read it, that’s where I got the ridiculous quote I slammed.
May God bless you Phyllis and deliver you from your anger
Catherine
Friends,
I don’t know if you’re aware of Phyllis Zagano’s litigious background. Here is a lawsuit (which she apparently handled rather ineptly), against Fordham University. Apparently an attempt to press charges of gender discrimination. I post it in the spirit of academic research, of course.
http://federal-circuits.vlex.com/vid/phyllis-zagano-fordham-university-gordon-37672358
Thank you Jonathan, for this bit of “academic research”
May God bless you and I will continue to pray for you and all of those affected by the likes of her.
In Our Lady’s Heart
Catherine
A lot to read! Basically, the NYS Division of Human Rights found “probable cause” to find in my favor, but my attorney made some very large mistakes. My department chairman was writing in “Screw Magazine” and told me I was “too involved in Catholic matters and affairs” (i.e. anti-abortion and working for John Cardinal O’Connor.)
Thank you for your pro-life work! May God bless you for that.
There is a nasty tone to this blog–a “gotcha” attitude–that marks it as a shadow over the valiant efforts of the Christian right. Sorry you feel that way.
You do realize, Phyllis, that what we perceive as faults in others is what we hate most about ourselves, right?
I have published 13 or 14 books, hundreds of journal and magazine articles and reviews, and both lectured and been quoted around the world by professional journalists.
And? Your point is? Being quoted doesn’t make the quotes right.
The deep anger here is upsetting.
Again Phyllis, perhaps some counseling would help you. I gave you a link on one of the past comments.
Maybe if people actually read/hear what I say, they will make their own determinations about the service of women in the Catholic Church.
People have read/heard what you have said, including me, and I have made my own determinations about the service of women in the Church. That was the purpose on this post. Get it? I read what you said and made the determination that what you said made no sense.
There is nothing to fear from what I say, and there is nothing I say that is against the Magisterium.
I don’t know anyone who is scared of what you say. What you say begs so many questions; there is a difference. If what you say is correct, you have nothing to fear or be angered by questions. If you put yourself out there as an expert and make such outlandish statements, you have to expect to be questioned. You have been and have yet to answer them. You said and I quote:
“But by ordaining women as deacons, the Church would announce to the world that yes, women are made in the image and likeness of God.”
I then asked the questions:
Whose image and likeness does the Church say we are made in now?
Whose image and likeness are the thousands of canonized women Saints made?
Would it really take an action that incurs an automatic latae sententiae excommunication to prove that the Church respects women?
Most importantly, in whose image and likeness is the Mother of God made?
I eagerly await your answers
May God bless you and Our Mother hold you
Catherine
http://www.uscatholic.org/church/2011/11/woman-altar-can-church-ordain-women-deacons
Everyone knows that if women were able to become deacons it would not end there. It would not satisfy their ultimate thirst. The push for incremental change in the Church and society never dies.