Msgr. William Awalt would often become frustrated with articles in The Washington Post. When they refused to print his letters to the editor he would seek to have them printed in The Catholic Standard.
June 5, 1994
Since The Washington Post doesn’t generally print rebuttals to their articles that show egg on their face, our only resort is our own paper.
On Sunday (Outlook, June 5, C-1) a Gary Wills, whom they say is Catholic – he may be, a logician he is not, tries to take exception to Pope John Paul’s letter to the priesthood, calling for men only to be priests. Taking only one sentence from the whole letter as being the reason why John Paul is wrong he tries to establish a principle that doesn’t apply to John Paul’s teaching. Wills says since all the twelve apostles were Jewish, only Jews should be ordained priests. Gary, the Pope is talking about genders IN PERSONA CHRISTI, not nationalities. By Wills’ “logic,” since only Jews were the chosen people that would leave Greeks, Indonesians, Chinese, as non-qualifiers. Wills is mixing apples and oranges.
The insulting cartoon in The Post accompanying Wills’ letter doesn’t save the irrationality of the article.
Rev. Msgr. William J. Awalt
Pastor, St. Ann’s Parish
Washington, DC
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