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Ordain Catholic Women?23 Votes
Description:Catholic women seeking to become priests denounced the church's ban on female ordination as sexist and unjust. "The exclusion of women from the priesthood is a grave injustice in our church ... (and) a blatant example of sexism". The Vatican insisted that it is properly following Christian tradition by excluding women from the priesthood and issued a new warning that women taking part in ordinations will be excommunicated. With the Catholic Church issues currently going on, do you think they should allow women to be ordained?
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Men are priests and women are nuns...Thats just the way it is!! Just leave things as they are! Why do women have to prove they are better than men at everything. Im sorry if I offend anyone but thats what I think
I don't feel women are better than men, just as men are not better than women. But that is not JUST the WAY it is. go read about all the great women in the bible.
Why would anyone belive in something that discriminates them,so strongly, that they would want to lead it?
What about the prophets, Did they not speak for God at one time? I remember that God called women to be prophets did he not?
Mother Theresa was more "Christ-like", than any of the hypocritical bigots, currently in the Vatican. The very idea, that they are more worthy of passing out communion than her, by virtue of male genitalia, is simply ludicrous. They would rather give priestly duties to male civilians (non-priests), while whining about a lack of vocations, than recognize women as equals. They should be ashamed of themselves. I am confident that Christ is.
Hi Mike. Strong sentiments there on the bishops. What gives?
I agree with the statements about God calling His priests. 2 points I would like to make. 1- If you are a believing Catholic, you understand that Jesus built His church and the Spirit leads it into all truth. So, you can trust it. 2- Remember that the priest speaks for Christ, or should I say, Christ speaks through His priest. How innapropriate would it be for Christ to speak through a woman when he says, "This is my body"? I am a woman, and I have never understood my dignity so much as I do now, after becoming Catholic. Christ's peace to you all.
PS- You should watch EWTN tv. You'll learn so much. The Catholic faith is beautiful!
I respect everyone's opinion, but I do not understand why a woman cannot be ordained. I don't think that women are any less worthy then men.
Hi Emily,
You raise a valid point. In fact, no one is worthy of priesthood, man or woman. The issue is simply a matter of God having created men and women with equal dignity, but separate stations in life. He determines whom he calls, as in my comments on 10/20. The problem we face is one created by the feminist movement of the 1970's. Foundational to that movement is the disparaging of a large part of women's nature, namely, a suspicion and even hatred for femininity, child-rearing, family and marriage. That leaves career as the only valid source of purpose in women's lives, and the mistaken notion that priesthood is a career choice, akin to medicine, accounting and law. It isn't. It is a call from God, that for reasons known only to him, he has consistently reserved to men alone. The feminist perspective also couches the issue in terms of "Male, Patriarchal Power." This too is a distortion. Read Pope John Paul II's words in my comments on 10/20. He speaks of the church not having the AUTHORITY to ordain women. Big difference here. POWER means that one can make the rules as one sees fit, answerable to no one. AUTHORITY means one can make rules or decisions only according to an established rule book or set of guidelines. For the church, we have the entire Bible and the teaching of the apostles, who were the eye and ear witnesses to all that Jesus said and did. All of that combined forms the entire body of God's revelation to humanity. All decisions made by the Pope and bishops must be done with fidelity to God's revelation. No Pope is free to depart from revelation. None of this can be seen clearly if it is being filtered through the distorting lens of western feminism. God Bless!
There are some issues that God himself has placed beyond the Magesterium's discretion. In Moses' day, the pagan religions had female priests, yet God only called men to his priesthood. The same God came to earth in the fullness of his own time and instituted a new priesthood, again, male only. This same God promised the Apostles (The first Pope and bishops) that he would send them his Holy Spirit who would "lead you to ALL TRUTH."
The problem that I see in this debate is that those who will not accept the Church's teaching on women's ordination are forced to maintain that God is sexist in only choosing men, or that he is impotent in being able to lead his own church to all truth as he promised.
Pope John Paul II stated in an encyclical that, "Wherefore, in order that all doubt may be removed regarding a matter of great importance, a matter which pertains to the Church's divine constitution itself, in virtue of my ministry of confirming the brethren (cf. Lk 22:32) I declare that the Church has no authority whatsoever to confer priestly ordination on women and that this judgment is to be definitively held by all the Church's faithful."
To continue to militate for women's ordination requires one to reject God's leading with Moses, the timing of the Incarnation vis the development of feminsm, Jesus' leading at the last supper, the inability of the Holy Spirit to lead the bishops and popes to all truth, as promised, and a rejection of papal authority and the enshrining of a cafeteria approach to following apostolic authority. In so doing, the Trinity and the Magesterium are replaced by the self and its desires, without any objective means of discerning what is God's leading vs. individual yearnings. It is the great fall of man redux.
This is not the stuff of which priests are made.
If you are confused on this subject then you need to get hold of Pope John Paul II's teachings on the Theology of The Body. In the book of Genisis we learn that God made us as male and female in His image. To live and love in communion - each of us is uniquely blessed and created by God as a gift as either a man or a woman for a special purpose to be a husband/father or wife/mother. And just as Our Blessed Mother Mary cannot be replaced by a man neither can Christ be replaced by a woman. Hence, Prests as representatives of Christ are men and represenatives of Mary - nuns are woman. The same applies to our families - get the teachings of the Church and let them enrich your life
Thank-you for your reply,I understand fully!
I agree with dave G. and respect his opion.