Comments on: No shoes of the fisherman, no penis, no service http://tbogg.firedoglake.com/2008/04/19/no-shoes-of-the-fisherman-no-penis-no-service/ \"...a somewhat popular blogger\" Fri, 17 Feb 2012 18:49:27 -0600 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.2 By: GraceNearing http://tbogg.firedoglake.com/2008/04/19/no-shoes-of-the-fisherman-no-penis-no-service/#comment-8007 GraceNearing Mon, 21 Apr 2008 19:54:33 +0000 http://tbogg.firedoglake.com/2008/04/19/no-shoes-of-the-fisherman-no-penis-no-service/#comment-8007 <p><em>John Paul the Great and the former Cardinal Ratzinger have not been reinventing a women-hating church.</em></p> <p>That’s true. They’ve just been perpetuating it. It’s what popes do.</p> John Paul the Great and the former Cardinal Ratzinger have not been reinventing a women-hating church.

That’s true. They’ve just been perpetuating it. It’s what popes do.

]]> By: sophronia http://tbogg.firedoglake.com/2008/04/19/no-shoes-of-the-fisherman-no-penis-no-service/#comment-7984 sophronia Mon, 21 Apr 2008 06:15:14 +0000 http://tbogg.firedoglake.com/2008/04/19/no-shoes-of-the-fisherman-no-penis-no-service/#comment-7984 <p>Gee, neither John Paul the Great nor Benny got around to actually saying specifically what women’s special role in the Church is. I bet it’s something along the lines of “Stand there and look fertile, and don’t forget to tithe.”</p> <p>K-Lo does offer some options: We can stand around at crucifixions, model for paintings of virtues, and produce lots and lots of little future patriarchs. Boy, do I feel fulfilled with those options.</p> Gee, neither John Paul the Great nor Benny got around to actually saying specifically what women’s special role in the Church is. I bet it’s something along the lines of “Stand there and look fertile, and don’t forget to tithe.”

K-Lo does offer some options: We can stand around at crucifixions, model for paintings of virtues, and produce lots and lots of little future patriarchs. Boy, do I feel fulfilled with those options.

]]> By: pseudonymousinnc http://tbogg.firedoglake.com/2008/04/19/no-shoes-of-the-fisherman-no-penis-no-service/#comment-7979 pseudonymousinnc Mon, 21 Apr 2008 05:11:57 +0000 http://tbogg.firedoglake.com/2008/04/19/no-shoes-of-the-fisherman-no-penis-no-service/#comment-7979 <blockquote><p>She’s an amateur nun. Possibly a laynun. Paranun. There’s probably a term for it somewhere. Oh yeah, old maid.</p></blockquote> <p>Oh, that’s harsh. I prefer ‘all bar nun.’</p>

She’s an amateur nun. Possibly a laynun. Paranun. There’s probably a term for it somewhere. Oh yeah, old maid.

Oh, that’s harsh. I prefer ‘all bar nun.’

]]> By: preznit http://tbogg.firedoglake.com/2008/04/19/no-shoes-of-the-fisherman-no-penis-no-service/#comment-7947 preznit Sun, 20 Apr 2008 15:11:07 +0000 http://tbogg.firedoglake.com/2008/04/19/no-shoes-of-the-fisherman-no-penis-no-service/#comment-7947 <p>and the comment thread at <a href="http://world-o-crap.com/blog/?p=715" rel="nofollow">world-o-crap</a> nails it</p> <p>“So if the priest acts as Christ and the head of the Church is male, doesn’t that make the Eucharist a gay wedding?”</p> and the comment thread at world-o-crap nails it

“So if the priest acts as Christ and the head of the Church is male, doesn’t that make the Eucharist a gay wedding?”

]]> By: dstatton http://tbogg.firedoglake.com/2008/04/19/no-shoes-of-the-fisherman-no-penis-no-service/#comment-7946 dstatton Sun, 20 Apr 2008 15:06:33 +0000 http://tbogg.firedoglake.com/2008/04/19/no-shoes-of-the-fisherman-no-penis-no-service/#comment-7946 <p>Except for the modern lingo, that speech could have been given by Benedict I In 575!</p> Except for the modern lingo, that speech could have been given by Benedict I In 575!

]]> By: preznit http://tbogg.firedoglake.com/2008/04/19/no-shoes-of-the-fisherman-no-penis-no-service/#comment-7945 preznit Sun, 20 Apr 2008 15:04:55 +0000 http://tbogg.firedoglake.com/2008/04/19/no-shoes-of-the-fisherman-no-penis-no-service/#comment-7945 <p>so if the requirement to be a nun is is to get none, I’d say she’s eminently qualified</p> so if the requirement to be a nun is is to get none, I’d say she’s eminently qualified

]]> By: hoipolloi http://tbogg.firedoglake.com/2008/04/19/no-shoes-of-the-fisherman-no-penis-no-service/#comment-7944 hoipolloi Sun, 20 Apr 2008 13:42:54 +0000 http://tbogg.firedoglake.com/2008/04/19/no-shoes-of-the-fisherman-no-penis-no-service/#comment-7944 <blockquote><p>“Sorry, no fat chicks.”</p></blockquote> <p>I don’t know what translation you’re using, but that “sorry” is not in the original.</p>

“Sorry, no fat chicks.”

I don’t know what translation you’re using, but that “sorry” is not in the original.

]]> By: woodrowfan http://tbogg.firedoglake.com/2008/04/19/no-shoes-of-the-fisherman-no-penis-no-service/#comment-7943 woodrowfan Sun, 20 Apr 2008 13:03:58 +0000 http://tbogg.firedoglake.com/2008/04/19/no-shoes-of-the-fisherman-no-penis-no-service/#comment-7943 <p>What’s that Gerald Ford’s Ag Secretary said about the Cathloic Church making rules on sex? “You no play-a the game, you no make-a da rules!”</p> What’s that Gerald Ford’s Ag Secretary said about the Cathloic Church making rules on sex? “You no play-a the game, you no make-a da rules!”

]]> By: UgluksFlea http://tbogg.firedoglake.com/2008/04/19/no-shoes-of-the-fisherman-no-penis-no-service/#comment-7942 UgluksFlea Sun, 20 Apr 2008 12:44:29 +0000 http://tbogg.firedoglake.com/2008/04/19/no-shoes-of-the-fisherman-no-penis-no-service/#comment-7942 <p>She’d probably have become a nun by now if they still wore wimples - she seems like THAT kind of nun.</p> She’d probably have become a nun by now if they still wore wimples – she seems like THAT kind of nun.

]]> By: fauxmaxbaer http://tbogg.firedoglake.com/2008/04/19/no-shoes-of-the-fisherman-no-penis-no-service/#comment-7941 fauxmaxbaer Sun, 20 Apr 2008 12:02:16 +0000 http://tbogg.firedoglake.com/2008/04/19/no-shoes-of-the-fisherman-no-penis-no-service/#comment-7941 <p>She’s an amateur nun. Possibly a laynun. Paranun. There’s probably a term for it somewhere. Oh yeah, old maid.</p> She’s an amateur nun. Possibly a laynun. Paranun. There’s probably a term for it somewhere. Oh yeah, old maid.

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