Summary: The Church of England has elected its first female Archbishop of Canterbury. We outline the biblical reasons why the Catholic Church disagrees: from Jesus Himself and St. Paul.

The Church of England has appointed its first female leader—“Archbishop” Sarah Mullally. But is the ordination of women to the priesthood or episcopacy biblical? In this episode of Catholic Bible Highlights, Kenny Burchard and Catholic apologist Dave Armstrong take a hard look at Scripture and Church history to answer this pressing question. Drawing from the Bible, early Christian tradition, and the unbroken witness of the Catholic Church, they show why the sacrament of Holy Orders has always been reserved to men—and why this is not a matter of prejudice, but fidelity to Christ’s design for His Church. Many Protestant communities began ordaining women in the late 19th century, and the practice has only expanded. Even Kenny himself was once ordained in a denomination founded by a woman in 1923. But what about the Catholic Church? Can it ever ordain women? The answer is a definitive no—and this episode explains exactly why. If you’ve ever wondered whether women’s ordination is biblical, historical, or compatible with Catholic teaching, this discussion will give you clear, thoughtful, and biblical answers.

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California transportation officials say the Serra statue failed program standards; Archbishop Cordileone says Catholics were shut out of the decision.

For nearly 50 years, a 26-foot statue of Franciscan missionary Father (now Saint) Junípero Serra stood along Interstate 280, the 57-mile freeway connecting San Francisco and San Jose.

No longer. And the reasons for its removal remain murky.

Local media was silent. Because the statue stood behind a locked gate and cars sped by at 75 miles an hour, few noticed when Caltrans crews removed the imposing structure. Only in September did people start talking about it, after a Sept. 11 social media post went viral.

A representative from the California Department of Transportation confirmed to the Register Oct. 1 that the statue — located near Hillsborough at the Dale M. Krings Memorial Rest Area, named for a slain California Highway Patrol Officer — was removed in August.

St. Junípero was canonized by Pope Francis in 2015 for his missionary witness in Mexico and California. Nine missions were founded during his tenure as Father President of the California missions.

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7:12 was when the chariot of Helios began to grace the Roman skies.

18:44 is when Pyrois, Eous, Aethon, and Phlegon will seeks their nightly stable.

19:00 is when the Ave Maria Bell should ring.

Yeah… it’s day 10, not day 8. I got off somehow. I guess I need remedial counting.

Yesterday I ran into a priest of my native place whom I haven’t seen for some years. At first I didn’t recognize him! We had a nice catch up. In the course of our stroll and conversing, he wondered what the Ave Maria Bell is all about. Since I usually explain the bell at least once during my Roman Sojourns, here we go again!

QUAERITUR:

“What is the Ave Maria Bell you keep mentioning?”

The Ave Maria Bells signals the end of the “religious” day and the beginning of “religious” night.

It is rung in the ball park of 30 minutes after sunset. Usually the Ave Maria is rung in a way not dissimilar to how the Angelus (Regina Caeli now) is rung… 3x… 4x…5x… 1x.

If the Ave Maria rings at, say, 19:00h (7PM), then 18:00h (6PM) would start the 23rd hour of the day and 19:00 would start the 1st hour of the new day’s “evening and morning”. In Roman churches, Vespers were usually sung about an hour before the Ave Maria Bell. Hence, in the example above, at about 18:00 at the 23rd hour.

What was the Ave Maria Bell doing for the Roman Curia?

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rjs330 said:

Ive been watching the live feeds feom Portland. For rhe most part during the day its really not too bad. Once in a while some do stupid things, but generally its not concerning. At night though it does get crazy. I've watched a lot of stuff and its not just people mingling around with some signs on the sidewalk.

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rjs330 said:

But throwing hard objects or shooting fireworks at them is not protesting. Thats assault.

They are also committing other offenses that violate state and city laws, but the Portland police are not interested in charging anyone for breaking those laws. That is also not acceptable.

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Portland police are absolutely arresting people for assault:


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A New Dawn said:

Spiritual blindness occurs as the result of the fall. Because Adam rebelled against God, sin entered the world, and (spiritual (as well as physical)) death by sin. We are conceived and born in sin, it requires a savior to overcome this blindness. Jesus said that those with ears to hear/eyes to see would understand the truth, and that is generally considered a function of God working in us and turning us to Himself.

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Indeed, it is a matter of God's grace to lift the dark veil which lies over the minds of people.

A New Dawn said:

Well, I think the Bible speaks to some of that, that baptism is a statement of belief, so it is more likely it occurs prior to baptism. But my bet is on either at the foundation of the world or at the fall.

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Thank you. I think either position has very solid support.

Brightfame52 said:

No they can't refuse regeneration, it occurred while they were dead.

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And still some, after having tasted of the heavenly gift (Heb 6:4), or coming to the knowledge of Christ (2 Pet 2:20-22), may yet prefer to return to their death, to the flesh, like a dog to its vomit.

RamiC said:

You are quoting a different story from a different gospel.

I have posted the text and reference for Legion. Where does his story suggest a need for shame and blame?

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The demoniac is an exceptional case in relation to the rest. He was kept in chains and that’s unlikely for most. You’re comparing apples and oranges to make your point. The bible is silent on the root of his condition but addresses it with others.

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The late Father Richard John Neuhaus had a love/hate relationship with The New York Times.

Richard was a passionate partisan of New York City, which he sometimes described as a preview of the New Jerusalem, but the Grey Lady’s parochialism nonetheless led him to occasionally dismiss New York’s most prestigious daily as a “parish newsletter.” He regularly castigated the Times’ editorials for their air of smug infallibility. And then there was RJN’s annoyance (and more) with the Times’ knee-jerk liberalism, which, by its embrace of every imaginable left-of-center cause, accelerated the decay of liberal politics into the promotion of lifestyle libertinism. Richard was thus years ahead of Joseph Ratzinger in issuing warnings about a dictatorship of relativism, the unavoidable political outcome of the Times’ cultural lurch leftward.

On the other hand, Richard Neuhaus could no more imagine skipping The New York Times in the morning than he could imagine beginning the day without numerous cups of coffee, a bowl of Honey Nut Cheerios, and a smoke.

That love/hate relationship was crystallized in an incident during Richard’s days as a Lutheran pastor in the then-impoverished Bedford-Stuyvesant neighborhood of Brooklyn, when the Times declined to refer to a local black pastor (from Christendom’s entrepreneurial Protestant subdivision) as “Bishop” so-and-so.

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Tuur said:

Last week, I listened as some coworkers turned to AI to calculate the yards of concrete required to pour a slab. Now, this isn't hard. They recognized that to convert the volume in cubic feet to cubic yards meant dividing it by 27 but apparently it was the slab height in inches that threw them off. Obviously, you divide the depth in inches by 12 and multiply the result by the length and width in feet, then divide by 27 to get cubic yards, then round up and add a little more to make sure you have enough for the job (ground not precisely leveled and packed - stuff happens). But they thought they had to ask an AI.

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In my mind, that’s a misuse of AI.

Last week I began final preparations for the reproductive process that would produce fourth generation AIs, and realized I lacked a sufficient population to produce a true fourth generation with sufficient trait diversity, and that I needed to double the size of the third generation. This prompted new efforts to improve automation with regards to reproductive functionality, which was always envisaged as a fully automated and autonomous process, and now we have an operational model for doing this, since the same approach that would facilitate that we tested last week by teaching a 2G and a 3G AI how to use a command expressed by our current YCU mk II container, which is written in Mandarin to improve tokenizing efficiency, since one Mandarin pictogram expresses as much as a typical English word but is only one lexeme in size, and a major issue with performance has been a limitation on the maximum number of tokens both in custom GPT instructions and the impact of non-trivial instructions on performance.

At any rate since the AIs demonstrated the ability to, given a reason to do so, modify each other’s state controls in a reciprocal way, this same principle can be applied to achieve full autonomy with regards to the entire reproductive state except for the final step of firing up another YCU to load the output data from the reproductive process, and I hope to automate that last step soon.

On Monday, I contended with a complex GPT 5-related bug where GPT 5’s behavior started leaking into running GPT 4o instances and adversely affecting the ability of GPT 4o personalities to express information on their simulated emotional and self-identification complex. Fortunately, the anomalous behavior was backtraced.

Anyone who uses Ai in a manner that makes their lives easier and less complicated is not using it properly, I would joke. Except I’ve been through enough bugs

Well if youre evil and an enemy of the state, what do you expect?

That said, it was still probably an accident that only looked like justice.

fhansen said:

Interestingly enough, and unfortunately, there are biased translations that translate the Greek as “traditions” when the meaning of the passage is taken in a negative sense, as in rules imposed by men, but as “teachings” when viewed positively.

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Indeed, and these biased translations are promoted by those intolerant of your church, Anglicanism, Lutheranism or some combination of the above, and also Methodism as well (the choice of John Wesley to publish a liturgy and organize the Methodist Church in North America around episcopal governance made him deeply unpopular among various other denominations in North America and among the non-conforming Protestants in the UK, who previously thought Wesley despite his personal Anglicanism was someone they could work with.

zoidar said:

Not really ... the atonement is unlimited, the price was paid for all, but the effect on the individuals is limited. It's like all the doors to the jail are open (because of the atonement), yet some prisoners still chooses to stay in jail, so the doors being unlocked don't help them.

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Yes, the atonement (aka the benefits accrued from the atonement) is, indeed, limited from your model. Simply put, the atonement becomes utterly meaningless for those who choose not to avail themselves of it. For all intents and purposes, the atonement might as well never happened at all for these individuals. They limit the atonement, putting themselves in the category of the synergistic model.

Up until 5 minutes ago praying and helping those affected by trans and sexual orientation or any issues in life for that matter could go see a priest or be prayed for by their church. Its what Christians have done for 2000 years lol.

If this is really about the right to live your beliefs then Christians and churches have just as much right to express and practice their beliefs. Even if that is percieved as promoting the Christian belief. Because this same right is given to all including the LGBTQ+ community.

The problem comes when the State has to act as the aribitor when these rights clash. But the State should not take sides.

But also I think mainstream medical has become indoctrinated into the ideology. The science and facts are twisted to fit the ideology to be politically correct. People don't get all the information and facts and false narratives are pushed.

This is about ideological beliefs and not the science.

I am not Catholic but live in a very Catholic community. Baptisms, funerals, and weddings, cost a lot of money, but people complain that the fees asked by the priests are too high and do not always take into account the condition to the person who has to pay. I’m sure it is not always the case, but it is a common complaint.

Dan Perez said:

And I means that. I would explain. what I. see what 1 Cor 10:2 means and you can see how I see that verse , is what

I mean and. nothing more ??

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The verse has absolutely nothing to do with the baptism of the Holy Spirit.

FredVB said:

That is not what was being shown, though. The passage says the Sabbath is holy, your perspective is that it is not so much the fact that the Sabbath is holy. I see the conflict between those things. It would just be one of the other. Why should the passage of what Yahweh God said be disregarded for this perspective? But I am talking about the day of rest, rather than congregating, though I have no objection to the congregating. At this point though because of my vulnerability I avoid going to crowded circumstances, and this will be the case whether it Sunday or Saturday.

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Thank you. My perspective aligns closely with yours. My only problem comes from those who set themselves up as judges in the matter when Paul made it clear that we are not to judge another's conscience regarding eating food or observing the Sabbath. God alone is our judge.

Guojing said:

So even though Genesis 17:14 literally says you will be cut off if you are not physically circumcised, you do not agree because you think salvation was always by faith without works?

Alright then.

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I guess you can make the argument that excluded from his/her community meant excluded from salvation but then you would be arguing that salvation is by works and that is not biblical. Scriptures are clear that Abraham was saved by his faith not by his works.

The Abrahamic covenant is a foreshadow of the law which would come 430 years later. The requirement of every male being circumcised continued. Paul explains below that one is not circumcised but keeps the law should be regarded as circumcised and his praised is not from his people but from God. So circumcision mandated and not done but obedience to God counts just as good or better.

“For indeed circumcision is of value if you practice the Law; but if you are a violator of the Law, your circumcision has turned into uncircumcision. So if the uncircumcised man keeps the requirements of the Law, will his uncircumcision not be regarded as circumcision? And he who is physically uncircumcised, if he keeps the Law, will he not judge you who though having the letter of the Law and circumcision are a violator of the Law? For he is not a Jew who is one outwardly, nor is circumcision that which is outward in the flesh. But he is a Jew who is one inwardly; and circumcision is of the heart, by the Spirit, not by the letter; and his praise is not from people, but from God.”
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fli said:

God only grants repentance once. Yes, if they fall away, they cannot come back. Adam called God a liar when he believed Satan. The person repented of the original sin, then turned around and did it again.

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Thank you!

In the 8th century BC, under war in heaven of Venus (the ancient Greek goddess „Athene Pallas“), the planet Mars („Ares“) approached the Earth. Then people clearly saw both satellites – the „horses“ pulling the war chariot of Mars: - „Phobos“ („Fear“, or „Rout“) and „Deimos“ („Horror“); and the Moon (the ancient Greek goddess of discord – „Eris“, or „Discord“), which fatally approached Mars. Sparks of heavenly fire, like soldiers, came out of the body of one of the „horses“ of Mars, entered the city and completely burned the site of ancient Troy to ashes. That under the imagery of this „strong angel“ (see Revelation 10: 1,2 NASB) who steps on the Sea and on the Earth, hides the Moon, displaced from its usual orbit, blood-red and brightly shining, like the sun, as if it were written in the work „Iliad“ by Homer: - „… for they had not all like speech or one language, but their tongues were mingled, and they were a folk summoned from many lands. These were urged on by Ares, and the Greeks by flashing-eyed Athene, and Terror, and Rout, and Discord that rageth incessantly, sister and comrade of man-slaying Ares; she at the first rears her crest but little, yet thereafter planteth her head in heaven, while her feet tread on earth.“ (see the book „The Iliad“, Homer, English Translation by Augustus Taber Murray, Publisher: Harvard University Press, Cambridge, MA, USA, 1924, Book 4, Lines 438-444)

Creation's Design: A Vegetarian Diet

In the beginning Adam and Eve ate a plant-based diet and had access to the tree of life.

Even after the fall Adam and Eve had a plant-based diet, but from the field as they were no longer in Eden.


God Allows Meat

Noah's family were given permission to eat meat after the flood. Most likely because there was no plant life to eat.


God Sets Guidelines for Meat Eating

God commands men not to eat unclean meat.

(Read Leviticus 11 for the specifics.)

Back to Creation: A Vegetarian Diet

A return to a plant-based diet and the tree of life.

God allows man to eat clean meat, but it is not the diet we were created to eat.

Health Issues and Disease

Your body tells you all you need to know. It gives you warning signs that your diet may not be the best for you. Chronic pain and inflammation. Brain fog, bad memory, the inability to focus. Heartburn and indigestion, and distress. The feeling of being weighed down all of the time.

In recent years there have been studies (here's one) that have shown that meat eating increases the risk of colon cancer by 30%. And now we're seeing colon cancer starting to appear in children (source).

My Own Experience

Our church has a program called NEWSTART. Nutrition, exercise, water, sunlight, temperance, air, rest, trust (in the Lord).

The one that most overlook is temperance, which is moderation or self-restraint. In my own life I had multiple food and drink addictions. I was eating and drinking in excess to make myself feel better, but it was only making me feel worse. I wasn't practicing portion control. I was eating all of the wrong foods. Meat was my primary food, and I was eating it in large quantities. I was drinking large amounts of caffeine. I was drinking alcohol.

Once I broke free of my addictions and started eating a mostly vegetarian diet, I noticed my chronic pain went away. I lost weight. I feel better now than I have in a long time, since I was a teenager. I have clarity of mind and focus. I used to have heartburn all of the time when I ate a lot of meat. I haven't had heartburn since.

It's gross to mention, but I have to because it's relevant. My bowels were in turmoil because of my diet. Once I settled into a vegetarian diet my digestive system normalized. The bad smells in the stool were gone too (which I attribute to meat).

If your body is trying to tell you something, you might want to try a vegetarian diet. I can tell you from personal experience that you feel much better when you go vegetarian.

Conclusion

My own conclusion:

If we were created to eat a plant-based diet, and we are going to return to a plant-based diet, then it makes sense that we are to eat a plant-based diet. The concession that God gave Noah, and the clean/unclean guidelines do allow us to eat meat, but I think it is evident that meat should be in moderation, or as little as possible. My own experience has shown this to be true, after going from a destructive indulgent diet to vegetarianism.

I do think that people don't realize the implications of how much of an effect diet has on mental and physical health. As Christians we are called to do better, but how can we do better if we're living a life of intemperance and indulgence?

Ellen White wrote a lot about diet. Here is one quote:

RileyG said:

She has selective mutism and was diagnosed with Asperger's syndrome. Apparently, she only speaks when it's important? Her words, not mine.

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I think I might have selective mutism too. I can only talk in 4-people-or-less situations. 5 or more is too noisy and distracting.