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Thread #136244 Message #3115201
Posted By: GUEST,Suibhne Astray
16-Mar-11 - 04:34 PM
Thread Name: BS: A Female Archbishop
Subject: RE: BS: A Female Archbishop
I won't say they're asking for it, but.........phwoooar!
In the later episodes of Vicar of Dibley she was shown as being quite raunchy. Is that typical I wonder? Shame it was crap anyway. The best religious comedy (after Father Ted which nailed the Catholic paranoia of women perfectly) was Rev, which wasn't too pious in its depiction of an inner city parish & its hapless incumbent. I love Phil Rickman's folk-friendly Merrily Watkins novels, in which a woman priest is single-mum with a pagan daughter and a folk singing boyfriend as well as holding down the position of being the Diocesan Exorcist for Hereford Cathedral, and fighting crime in her spare time. Sexy or what? She reminds me a lot of the woman priest from Boscastle in A Seaside Parish a few years ago, which also had its folky moments.
read by a female canon.
You get women doing readings in Catholic Churches - and assisting at Holy Communion. In fact in many parishes (Anglican too) it's the women who keep the churches going - and yet bizarrely would probably be the first to oppose the ordination of women priests!