Bergoglio was Pell's biggest cheerleader during the trial and held him in the Vatican when he was released from prison.
Swiss bishops reiterate ‘rules’ after woman appears to concelebrate Mass
Only ordained priests may preside at Mass, and the liturgy should not be “a testing ground for personal projects”, three Swiss bishops have said.
Their intervention follows controversy over a video circulated online of a laywoman who seemed to concelebrate Mass with priests.
Schmid acknowledged that as a woman she can’t validly celebrate the Eucharist as ordained Catholic priests do. She said the controversy was based on a video clip uploaded to the internet without the knowledge of all the participants.
“And some are already seeing red when they see a woman at the altar in a photo,” she said.
https://www.thetablet.co.uk/news/16395/s...brate-mass
So the bishops claim that the "only" problem here is not that she is a woman but because she is a layperson. Well that is a lie because the Church is already employing laypeople to hold mass:
"The move comes as the Archdiocese of Tuam announced plans in a pastoral letter this Advent for lay-led liturgies to be held in churches when no priest is available to say Mass."
https://www.independent.ie/irish-news/co...11994.html
Swiss bishops reiterate ‘rules’ after woman appears to concelebrate Mass
Only ordained priests may preside at Mass, and the liturgy should not be “a testing ground for personal projects”, three Swiss bishops have said.
Their intervention follows controversy over a video circulated online of a laywoman who seemed to concelebrate Mass with priests.
Schmid acknowledged that as a woman she can’t validly celebrate the Eucharist as ordained Catholic priests do. She said the controversy was based on a video clip uploaded to the internet without the knowledge of all the participants.
“And some are already seeing red when they see a woman at the altar in a photo,” she said.
https://www.thetablet.co.uk/news/16395/s...brate-mass
So the bishops claim that the "only" problem here is not that she is a woman but because she is a layperson. Well that is a lie because the Church is already employing laypeople to hold mass:
"The move comes as the Archdiocese of Tuam announced plans in a pastoral letter this Advent for lay-led liturgies to be held in churches when no priest is available to say Mass."
https://www.independent.ie/irish-news/co...11994.html
teachings of the Bible are so muddled and self-contradictory that it was possible for Christians to happily burn heretics alive for five long centuries. It was even possible for the most venerated patriarchs of the Church, like St. Augustine and St. Thomas Aquinas, to conclude that heretics should be tortured (Augustine) or killed outright (Aquinas). Martin Luther and John Calvin advocated the wholesale murder of heretics, apostates, Jews, and witches. - Sam Harris, "Letter To A Christian Nation"