{"id":14362,"date":"2013-04-15T15:10:00","date_gmt":"2013-04-15T07:10:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cbcpnews.com\/cbcpnews\/?p=17526"},"modified":"2013-04-15T15:10:00","modified_gmt":"2013-04-15T07:10:00","slug":"cbcp-official-opposes-women-priests","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cbcponlineradio.net\/cbcp-official-opposes-women-priests\/","title":{"rendered":"CBCP official opposes women priests"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;\">MANILA, April 15, 2013\u2014 An official of the Catholic Bishops\u2019 Conference of the Philippines (CBCP) is adamantly against the ordination of women, saying that priesthood should solely remain for men.<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>New Imus Bishop Reynaldo Evangelista, who heads the CBCP\u2019s Commission on Vocations, said that only men can receive the holy orders but women can still serve the church by entering the religious life.<span style=\"font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>But just because the Catholic hierarchy is composed of males only does not mean women have no place within the Church, he said.<span style=\"font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>\u201cWomen can serve (the Church) in other ways like being with the religious, or even as lay. The consecrated life is not a lesser form of serving God,\u201d Evangelista said. \u00a0<span style=\"font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>With Pope Francis\u2019 election as pope, many wonder if the Church will take a more liberal position on women joining the priesthood, a sacrament currently forbidden to women.<span style=\"font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>According to Evangelista, who is also a member of the CBCP\u2019s Commission on Seminaries, the Church\u2019s position will remain that priesthood is for male. \u201cAnd that is also my stand as a bishop,\u201d he said.<span style=\"font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>The bishop added that there are many ways of serving God and the Church. \u00a0<span style=\"font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s just that there are different charisms,\u201d said Evangelista. \u201cWomen don\u2019t need to become priests just to serve God.\u201d (Roy Lagarde)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MANILA, April 15, 2013\u2014 An official of the Catholic Bishops\u2019 Conference of the Philippines (CBCP) is adamantly against the ordination of women, saying that priesthood should solely remain for men.\u00a0 New Imus Bishop Reynaldo Evangelista, who heads the CBCP\u2019s Commission on Vocations, said that only men can receive the holy ...<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[38],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cbcponlineradio.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14362"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cbcponlineradio.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cbcponlineradio.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cbcponlineradio.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cbcponlineradio.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14362"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cbcponlineradio.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14362\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cbcponlineradio.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14362"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cbcponlineradio.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14362"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cbcponlineradio.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14362"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}