Comments for No Fear of Flying at http://www.thecatholicthing.org , comment 1 to 5 out of 5 comments http://www.thecatholicthing.org Wed, 22 May 2013 23:20:06 +0100 FeedCreator 1.7.3 http://www.thecatholicthing.org/columns/2011/no-fear-of-flying.html#comment-8917 I have visited this blog. It is great! Even as a Catholic man (not woman), I found the articles very interesting and relevant. - Charlie Fri, 18 Nov 2011 14:56:38 +0100 http://www.thecatholicthing.org/columns/2011/no-fear-of-flying.html#comment-8904 Two years? My goodness. My first conversion to Catholicism lasted 10 years, but, sadly, it never "took". I think it was a preoccupation with "gender issues" and the tendency to categorize people that prevented my maturing in the Faith. After 20 years in the wilderness, I tried again. Now, nine years later, I think I just may be beginning to get the gist. Every now and then I get the feeling that I might be showing signs of "ripening", or, as Fr. Schall's book title puts it, growing into a "Mind that Is Catholic." Happily I have long since left "gender issues" and their categories behind. Gender is simply a non-issue in the Faith, and, with its having become a non-issue, I can read Dr. Esolen's comment and know, instinctively and interiorly, that he is exactly right. Still, some people are more precocious than others. Welcome home. - Louise Fri, 18 Nov 2011 03:17:01 +0100 http://www.thecatholicthing.org/columns/2011/no-fear-of-flying.html#comment-8897 A priest is a father. I can't be a mother. My wife can't be a father. The priest, in persona Christi, weds his bride the Church. A woman can't marry a woman. Saint Paul makes the matter clear enough, I'd have thought. As for women parish administrators: sorry, but they shouldn't be. They give the wrong impression. They probably discourage young men from sticking around. The ONLY question that anyone should ask, when it comes to "ministries" in the Church, is this: "Will what I do actually build up the Body of Christ?" Good intentions are of no import as far as that is concerned.... I may want to "help" my neighborhood cops, but if I can't run or throw a punch or wrestle somebody to the ground or help lift a car out of a ditch, then I probably would help them more by staying out of their way... - Tony Esolen Thu, 17 Nov 2011 19:04:43 +0100 http://www.thecatholicthing.org/columns/2011/no-fear-of-flying.html#comment-8896 hmmmm, uh, ok. I don't think writing is like flying. I checked out the blog, hmmm. no flying there. - Achilles Thu, 17 Nov 2011 08:39:40 +0100 http://www.thecatholicthing.org/columns/2011/no-fear-of-flying.html#comment-8895 I hope you can also better articulate the church's teaching on the impossibility of women's ordination. I'm not writing as an advocate, but as a parent. One of the hardest questions a Catholic parent has to answer is that of a faithful teenage daughter asking "Why can't I become a priest?" The articulated teaching is: (1) Jesus did not provide that example, and (2) if you are faithful, you are not permitted to discuss or question this teaching. As my children often ask, "Dad, but why? Can you explain it better than that?" This is particularly urgent because the Church has recognized and included women more fully as parish administrators, lay leaders, theologians, musicians, etc., but the teaching on ordination has become more firmly fixed. Ashley, perhaps having women like you teach on this issue would result in better understanding and catechesis than males can provide. - DS Thu, 17 Nov 2011 08:11:01 +0100