Vatican Unveils Frescoes In Catacombs of Priscilla With Images Some Say Show Early Women Priests

Nice to see misogyny alive and well in the 21st century,,,

The Association of Roman Catholic Women Priests, which includes women who have been excommunicated by the Vatican for participating in purported ordination ceremonies, holds the images up as evidence that there were women priests in the early Christian church — and that therefore there should be women priests today.

But Fabrizio Bisconti, the superintendent of the Vatican's sacred archaeology commission, said such a reading of the frescoes was pure "fable, a legend." Even though the catacombs' official guide says there is "a clear reference to the banquet of the Holy Eucharist" in the fresco, Bisconti said the scene of the banquet wasn't a Eucharistic banquet but a funeral banquet. He said that even though women were present they weren't celebrating Mass.

Vatican Unveils Frescoes In Catacombs of Priscilla With Images Some Say Show Early Women Priests