"The Goddess movement intends to root out the faith in God the Father from which Western culture springs, and to replace it with the neo-pagan cult of a Mother Goddess." Source
WOMAN CHURCH
They prey on weak or unorthodox bishops who naively involve them in the Church they despise.
‘Catholic’ feminist theologian, Rosemary Ruether:
"I knew that Ba'al was a real god, the revelation of the mystery of life, the expressions of the depths of being which had broken through into the lives of the people and gave them a key to the mystery of death and rebirth.... As for the defects of Ba'al, were they more spectacular than the defects of the biblical God or Messiah, or perhaps less so?
I could hardly tell her (a nun) that my devotion to Mary was somewhat less than my devotion to some far more powerful females that I knew: Isis, Athena, and Artemis!” (Gregory Baum, Journeys: The Impact of Personal Experience on Religious Thought)
"As a feminist, I can come up with only one reason to stay in the Catholic Church: to try to change it." (Interview with Rosemary Radford Ruether, U.S. Catholic, April 1985) 31.
Ruether described the Church as an "idol of masculinity to be broken up and ground into powder”.
“Not that being a lesbian is unnatural, but that the way we've been repressed by homophobia is unnatural.” (Rosemary Radford Ruether, Women-Church: Theology and Practice of Feminist Liturgical Communities)
Another influential figure in Woman Church is ex-nun Mary Daly teaches lesbian witchcraft. Daly defines the Beatific Vision as “an afterlife of perpetual Boredom: union/ copulation with the Divine Essence; the final consummate union of the Happy Dead Ones with the Supreme Dead One." (Wickedary)
In 1985 the Canadian Bishops allowed the use of controversial "Study Kit" on women's issues. The bibliography of this material recommended the reading of radical feminist theologians. One of twelve sessions "contained a liturgy drawn from Wiccan sources." One report on the kit claimed that the experience gave women a "greater sense of dignity."
Woman Church, Witchcraft, and the Goddess By Fr. Matthew Fox
Satanism, Witchcraft and Church Feminists by Robert Eady
The catechumen on the right is supposed to be “naked”.
WOMAN CHURCH
They prey on weak or unorthodox bishops who naively involve them in the Church they despise.
‘Catholic’ feminist theologian, Rosemary Ruether:
"I knew that Ba'al was a real god, the revelation of the mystery of life, the expressions of the depths of being which had broken through into the lives of the people and gave them a key to the mystery of death and rebirth.... As for the defects of Ba'al, were they more spectacular than the defects of the biblical God or Messiah, or perhaps less so?
I could hardly tell her (a nun) that my devotion to Mary was somewhat less than my devotion to some far more powerful females that I knew: Isis, Athena, and Artemis!” (Gregory Baum, Journeys: The Impact of Personal Experience on Religious Thought)
"As a feminist, I can come up with only one reason to stay in the Catholic Church: to try to change it." (Interview with Rosemary Radford Ruether, U.S. Catholic, April 1985) 31.
Ruether described the Church as an "idol of masculinity to be broken up and ground into powder”.
“Not that being a lesbian is unnatural, but that the way we've been repressed by homophobia is unnatural.” (Rosemary Radford Ruether, Women-Church: Theology and Practice of Feminist Liturgical Communities)
Another influential figure in Woman Church is ex-nun Mary Daly teaches lesbian witchcraft. Daly defines the Beatific Vision as “an afterlife of perpetual Boredom: union/ copulation with the Divine Essence; the final consummate union of the Happy Dead Ones with the Supreme Dead One." (Wickedary)
In 1985 the Canadian Bishops allowed the use of controversial "Study Kit" on women's issues. The bibliography of this material recommended the reading of radical feminist theologians. One of twelve sessions "contained a liturgy drawn from Wiccan sources." One report on the kit claimed that the experience gave women a "greater sense of dignity."
Woman Church, Witchcraft, and the Goddess By Fr. Matthew Fox
Satanism, Witchcraft and Church Feminists by Robert Eady
The catechumen on the right is supposed to be “naked”.
Yup, they claim to be Catholic – check them out here
SOPHIA
This is the Venus of Willendorf
This is Sophia, the 'Goddess of Wisdom'
These are the so called ‘Roman Catholic Womenpriests’
What do the Paleolithic "Venus", the occult Sophia and these ‘Catholic’ priestesses have in common?
The Venus of Willendorf was a fertility object and perhaps a symbol for some earth goddess cult. She is similar to the Gaia figure from Greek mythology.
Sophia is the feminine goddess of Wisdom. Sophia is found in Gnosticism, Theosophy and in pagan religions with goddess worship. Sophia is referred to as the feminine image of God; Goddess-Mother of the Universe; the fallen creator of earth, water, fire, and air; Wisdom in the Proverbs; or Holy Spirit. (sic)
To be sure the paddling sisterhood will strike on a boat somewhere again. It would be a mistake to think of these events as mere manifestations of feminist ambition. The ultimate goal is the Goddess --> earth, wind, fire, air, and water --> Paganism! The Venus of Willendorf is trying to reinvent the Catholic Church!
It’s hard to believe, but the Women’s “Ordination” Conferences seems to pursue this same objective:
In Dublin there were four altars to earth, water, fire, and air. The conference opened with a welcome dance: participants with arms linked danced around the hall chanting, “Earth my body, water my blood, fire my spirit….” Instead of mass the program listed “eucharist” (in lower case). With incense, beating drums, earthenware chalices, bread and grape juice?
In Ottawa one keynote speaker was Rosemary Ruether, author of Integrating Ecofeminism and Goddesses and the Divine Feminine. Diane Watts’s workshop was titled “Erotic Justice: Commitment to Personal and Global Transformation” Quote “Trinity is mother, Lord within us”; “best experience of God is in mutual sexual relationships”; Christian teaching “is frozen into frigidity by fear of sex.”; “We need gays and lesbians – it is ‘a unique way, the creative energy of God.’” The Sunday morning opening prayer: “We pray for the stripping away of the calcified rituals and rigid legalism. We pray for a truly eucharistic church, for table fellowship where equal disciples break together the Word and the Bread, and raise the cup of Thanksgiving.” It ended with, “Come, Sophia Wisdom, fill the hearts of your faithful and renew the face of the earth. Amen.” Source
ECOFEMINISM
SOPHIA
This is the Venus of Willendorf
This is Sophia, the 'Goddess of Wisdom'
These are the so called ‘Roman Catholic Womenpriests’
What do the Paleolithic "Venus", the occult Sophia and these ‘Catholic’ priestesses have in common?
The Venus of Willendorf was a fertility object and perhaps a symbol for some earth goddess cult. She is similar to the Gaia figure from Greek mythology.
Sophia is the feminine goddess of Wisdom. Sophia is found in Gnosticism, Theosophy and in pagan religions with goddess worship. Sophia is referred to as the feminine image of God; Goddess-Mother of the Universe; the fallen creator of earth, water, fire, and air; Wisdom in the Proverbs; or Holy Spirit. (sic)
To be sure the paddling sisterhood will strike on a boat somewhere again. It would be a mistake to think of these events as mere manifestations of feminist ambition. The ultimate goal is the Goddess --> earth, wind, fire, air, and water --> Paganism! The Venus of Willendorf is trying to reinvent the Catholic Church!
It’s hard to believe, but the Women’s “Ordination” Conferences seems to pursue this same objective:
In Dublin there were four altars to earth, water, fire, and air. The conference opened with a welcome dance: participants with arms linked danced around the hall chanting, “Earth my body, water my blood, fire my spirit….” Instead of mass the program listed “eucharist” (in lower case). With incense, beating drums, earthenware chalices, bread and grape juice?
In Ottawa one keynote speaker was Rosemary Ruether, author of Integrating Ecofeminism and Goddesses and the Divine Feminine. Diane Watts’s workshop was titled “Erotic Justice: Commitment to Personal and Global Transformation” Quote “Trinity is mother, Lord within us”; “best experience of God is in mutual sexual relationships”; Christian teaching “is frozen into frigidity by fear of sex.”; “We need gays and lesbians – it is ‘a unique way, the creative energy of God.’” The Sunday morning opening prayer: “We pray for the stripping away of the calcified rituals and rigid legalism. We pray for a truly eucharistic church, for table fellowship where equal disciples break together the Word and the Bread, and raise the cup of Thanksgiving.” It ended with, “Come, Sophia Wisdom, fill the hearts of your faithful and renew the face of the earth. Amen.” Source
ECOFEMINISM
Ecofeminism unites environmentalism and feminism; in parts using pagan concepts and in other parts using the Marxist liberation concept. Ecofeminism is the belief that oppression of women is interconnected with the abuse of the environment and that sexism, racism and exploitation of nature go hand in hand. Eco theologians believe that Mother Earth is a personified mega-organism into which human beings are imbedded. The theory behind this spirituality is that the divine is present in all of creation. (panentheism) Ecofeminists advocate for the liberation of nature and women.
In Catholic doctrine nothing can be found about the Earth being alive. God created the Earth to support plant, animal, and human life. Yet there are Catholic Schools holding Earth Celebrations, Catholic universities offering courses, Catholic parish retreats and Catholic retreat centers offering workshops in ecofeminism.
Women Religious Embrace Eco-Spirituality
“At first I thought I'd stumbled across A Total Woman from Mars. I was attending a workshop titled "Shamanic Womancraft" at a center for New Age practices in a northern California town. Women arrived in long print dresses with shawls and sat on mats in a circle on the floor. Many carried babies, and nursed them casually. The silver-haired Shaman woman in mystical clothing entered and set up a centerpiece for the circle, placing dolls, candles, and artifacts at precise angles. Among the little statues was a Madonna and an African goddess of fertility. As the woman laid out herbs with a thick aroma, her husband walked around the room waving incense, much like a priest, then exited.
Jeannine Parvati Baker then began the ritual, swaying to a chant that could have been American Indian. She called out, "Our goddesses who art in heaven and upon this earth, we celebrate the divine feminine within and without." She was in trance-like motion; "This is a perfect time to be on this planet, chosen to be the daughters at this changing time, to bring full and lasting peace to this glorious planet." She called out to Greek goddesses Artemis and Demeter. At one point she asked each woman to place some object that shows her sexuality on the altar-like centerpiece. Women carried in lipsticks, more little goddess statues, "encoding crystals." Baker continued her trancelike call, "We are sisters in a shining sun, remembering the ancient ones," she said. She used hand movements called mudras to "pull the senses back into the source," then proclaimed, "I am god . . . Shamanism . . . understand all. . . .
At times Parvati Baker made the sound "Ho—!" and the women in the circle responded "—Mmm," creating the word "Home." She passed out medicine cards; she taught us rituals we can do in our own living rooms. As the third hour began, she asked the women to share the contents of their "sexuality bundles" which they'd packed for the workshop. First Baker reached into her own little bag, and pulled out a piece of cloth diaper, "the best things to use as menstrual pads, aren't they? Ho—" "Mmmm." Her cloth was "spotted with a pattern that shows the six bleeding hearts of my six children," she said with pride. I started to squirm. Baker then pulled out the umbilical cords of all her six children, and the room began to swirl. The next woman reached in her bundle and pulled out a picture with a baby's hand in a flame saying that it represented "how many of us were burned at the stake in past lifetimes," but I couldn't stay to hear the rest. I was losing my dinner in the ladies' room outside." [Eco-Feminists and Pagan Politics] by Kay Ebeling
