For practical reasons we are not publishing the names of the persons who made these observations. Neither do I feel a need of writing out a reply here.
1. Your petition is heretical
Under no circumstances would I sign such a synthesis of heresy and apostasy. I was truly shocked to read each and every one of the ten propositions in the petition, and disturbed to say the least on reading much of what your eponymously entitled Institute presides over and supports.
I pray that the Spirit of Truth may descend upon you and your collaborators.
Professor of Moral Theology
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2. Women’s ordination? Out of the question!
I utterly reject your contention that women should be admitted to holy orders. The tangential reference to St. Paul’s letter to Timothy (1 Timothy 2.12) made by you is controlling, in and of itself, without any further explanation or support. However, this reference ought to be placed in proper context of the surrounding text, found in 1 Timothy 2.8-15. It is not insignificant that St. Paul cites the unchangeable fact of history “Adam was formed first, then Eve…” and that “Adam was not deceived, but the woman was deceived…”
However, if further apostolic support is required, reference can be made to the comprehensive discussion found in St. Paul’s letter to the Corinthians (1 Corinthians 11.2-16), as well as St. Peter’s catholic letter (1 Peter 3.1-6).
The fact that angels are offended by feminine disorder (1 Corinthians 11.10) can account for the spiritual anemia of the Church in the west, when contrasted to the Church found in the “less progressive” areas of the world (including Eastern Europe).
Indeed, even in the United States, the vitality of the old order adherents (such as “Latin Mass” adherents), is due in great part to the proper ordering of men and women, and the veiling of women as a sacrament of reverence, submission and worship.
Women cannot be allowed to exercise spiritual authority over men. It is contrary to God’s order – the man was made in the image of God, the woman was taken from man, made to be his help-meet, his subordinate. When the woman stepped outside of this authority and took the radical initiative of entertaining the diabolical, she became the avenue for the entrance of sin and death (although man’s “following the woman” consummated the rebellion – precursing the later case of Ahab and Jezebel). As pain during childbirth is an unavoidable consequence of this act, so is the divine word: “your desire shall be for your husband, and he shall rule over you.” I see no relaxation of this edict that might be expected in this present creation – although I would expect some when He “makes all things new…” (Revelation 21.5).
Until then, we must all be willing to submit to the constrictions that the divine order has assigned to us – men must be men, women must be women. The obtuse analogy that comes to mind is “For neither circumcision counts for anything, nor uncircumcision, but a new creation.” Galatians 6.15.
Peace and mercy be upon all those who walk by this rule, upon the Israel of God.
3. Homosexuals living together? Never!
You say you follow Christ, well Jesus says, “Have you not read that he who created them from the beginning made them male and female, and said, ‘Therefore a man shall leave his father and his mother and hold fast to his wife, and the two shall become one flesh’? So they are no longer two but one flesh. What therefore God has joined together, let not man separate” (Matthew 19:4-6).
Repent!
“Let marriage be held in honor among all, and let the marriage bed be undefiled, for God will judge the sexually immoral and adulterous” (Hebrews 13:4).
Repent from your allegiance to the devil and return to God.
