Do you think women should be allowed to Become Catholic Priests?
Personally, I think it certainly should be allowed in the priesthood. The "men-only" was a product of a culture dominated by men 2000 years ago, when women are often treated in a second class way, is only submissive to her husband and make more Catholics. Much of this mentality is still accepted by the church (the vows of marriage, etc.).. Women should be treated equally by the church, but it seems that the male-dominated hierarchy wants to continue his "good-ol boy" mentality on this important issue. The church is in need of priests and women have always been very active in church affairs and activities. In my opinion, it is time for a change.
As far as I know, the male priesthood is a tradition, not a doctrine of the Catholic Church. You have given acurately why all men priesthood.
One day, women can be admitted to the priesthood, but it will not happen anytime soon. All men are the priesthood is a tradition of 2000 years will be very difficult to change. The Church does not bend to the pressure of popular opinion.
Daver could not be more wrong in his quote from Romans.
There was no feminine form to the office of deacon for several centuries after the death of Paul. That was a deacon or not.
Paul of the definition of a deacon, is indicated in Timoteo, fits the role of a priest does today.
In addition, Paul sent the singer Paulina Rubio will serve as a deacon in the Christian congregation in Rome, asking them to do what I needed from them. Failure to differentiate the role of deacon and deaconess in his writings, we have to assume that in fact he intended to act as a deacon in Rome. Otherwise, why exactly is going to send a woman to act as a deacon in the old world of the most important city if she does not approve of women in positions of authority?
In short, Paul held views on the position of women in the pulpit. But that does not mean they will not as evidenced Phoebe.
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First you would call not priests priestesses. Please use the correct language.
To answer your question, not me no, no, and can not.
Wooleybooley above is incorrect.
This is a Catholic doctrine that
1.) Christ not women "priests"
2.) Never were women 'priests'
3.) The Church has no power to make women 'priests' now or in the future.
Please see
Among Insigniores http://www.papalencyclicals.net/Paul06/p …
and
Ordinatio Sacerdotalishttp: / / http://www.ewtn.com/library/PAPALDOC/JP2 …
You should also read the following by the then Card. Ratzingerhttp: / / http://www.ourladyswarriors.org/teach/or…http://www.ourladyswarriors.org/teach/or …
LET THE CARD RATZINGER now Pope Benedict XVI has the last word
This teaching requires definitive assent, since, founded on the written Word of God, and from the beginning constantly preserved and applied in the Tradition of the Church, has been established infallibly by the ordinary and universal Magisterium
ps. If you want women "priests" to be a Protestant.
I'm guessing the answer suggests that women have no right preaching would be 1 Corintians 14-15: "33 For God is not the author of confusion but of peace, as in all churches of the saints.
34 Let your women keep silence in the churches because they are not allowed to speak, but they are commanded to be under obedience, as also says the law.
35 And if they're going to learn anything, ask their husbands at home: it is a shame for women to speak in church.
36 What? came the word of God around you? or just come to you?
37 If anyone thinks himself to be a prophet, or spiritual, allowing you to recognize the things that I write unto you are the commandments of the Lord.
38 But if any man be ignorant, as ignorant.
39 Therefore, brethren, covet to prophesy, and forbid not to speak in tongues.
40 What do all the things decently and in order.
15:1 Moreover, brethren, I declare that I have the gospel preached, which also ye have received, and that ye stand;
2 By which also ye are saved, if ye keep in memory what I preached unto you, unless ye have believed in vain.
3 For I delivered to you first, that which also received, how that Christ died for our sins according to the Scriptures;
4 And that He was buried and rose the third day according to the Scriptures:
5 and that was seen of Cephas, then of the twelve:
6 After that, it was seen by over five hundred brethren at once, of which most remain to this present, but some are fallen asleep.
7 After that, he was seen of James, after all the apostles.
8 And last of all I too was seen as one of those born out of due time.
9 For I am the youngest of the apostles, who do not meet to be called an apostle, because I persecuted the church of God. "
I Corinthians 15 included, because even in that Paul does not want to include women who were the first to see the Risen Jesus. Paul became a disciple later, not to see first hand the path of Jesus … women treated with respect, dignity and honor. It appreciates his intelligence and speaking with them. The Church is still the mindset of Paul, although they have advanced cultures and recognize that women are equal … something that was not made at the time of Jesus. Women should have the right to be active full members of the Church. It is male dominated hierarchy that is still in its view archaic. However, there are many women who have grown up with the concept that women can not be priests and are afraid to take that leap of faith forward that this is what the Church should do. I believe Jesus would be in heirachy of the Church of today with the same view of the Pharisees who had … "blind guides" (Matthew 23)
BTW, the women most likely have not been taken within the twelve, because of the social life at that time … had nothing to do with their abilities. Definitely would not have been considered appropriate for women to travel with Jesus in this way.
First, women were not second class citizens. Women's work is known to be so important. Women were not able to do the hard work for the harvest, small crops, raise children, the house and do the work needed to be done.
Secondly, it says in the bible that women should not become preachers.
I do not think you want to attend a Mass that is said about a woman preist.
I am sure the Church accuding of 2000 years of machismo makes you feel better, but that in itself does not help advance the cause of women in the priesthood.
Instead of relying on the secular society of gross negligence misunderstanding of Catholic doctrine, would not it be better to examine the belief of the Church, and discover why the priesthood is only for men?
Before coming to that, not make the mistake of assuming that a priest may be simply because I am a man. Does not work that way.
All are called to live in some form of consecrated life. I was called to married life. Others are called to be unique. However, few are called to the clergy.
Become a member of the Catholic clergy is not a man to exercise a "right". It is the acceptance of a privilege given by God. God decides that this is a privilege, not us.
The women in the priesthood
Gen. 3:15, Luke 1:26-55, John 19:26, Rev. 12:1 - Mary is the greatest creation of God, was the person closest to Jesus, but Jesus did not choose to be priest. God chose only men to be priests to reflect the complementarity of the sexes. As the man (the royal priest) gives life to the natural woman in the conjugal partnership, the ministerial priest is the supernatural life in the New Covenant sacraments.
Judges 17:10, 18:19 - fatherhood and priesthood are synonymous. Micah says: "Stay with me, and my father and a priest." Fathers / priests give life, and mothers receive and nurture life. This reflects our Father God who gives the life of grace through the priesthood of her Divine Son, and Mother Church receives the life of grace and feeding their children. In short, women can not be priests because women can not be parents.
Mark 16:9, Luke 7: 37-50, John 8:3-11 - Jesus allowed women to join in their unique mission, beyond the glorification of cultural norms. His decision not to order the woman had nothing to do with culture. The writers of the Gospels is also clear that women participate in the ministry of Jesus and, unlike men, never betrayed Jesus. Women have always maintained the highest esteem in the Church (eg, the holiest of the Church and the model of faith is a woman, the constant teaching of the Church on the dignity of motherhood, the Church of understanding of humanity united as the bride of Christ, etc.).
Mark 14:17,20, Luke 22:14 - the language "the twelve" and "apostles," shows Jesus Eucharistic holy priesthood in charge, giving orders to men.
Gen. 14:10, Heb. 5:6,10, 6:20, 7:15,17 - Jesus, the Son of God, is both king and priest after the priest-king Melchizedek. Jesus embodies both the priesthood and monarchy parentage.
Gen. 22:9-13 - as announced, our redemption God chose to be secured by the sacrifice of love that the Son is the Father.
Matt. 26:26, Mark 14:22, Luke 22:19 - because the priest acts in persona Christi in offering to the Father, the priest can not be a woman.
Mark 3:13 - Jesus selected the apostles, "as he desired," according to his will and not according to the demands of their culture. Because Jesus acted according to His will was perfectly united to the Father, we can not criticize Jesus' selection of men to be his priests without criticizing God.
John 20:22 - Jesus breathed only the male apostles, the first bishops, giving them the authority to forgive and retain sins. In fact, the male priesthood of Christianity was a distinction of the priestesses of paganism that existed at the time. A female priesthood would be a return to non-Christian practices. The sacred tradition of a male priesthood and the Church has existed for 2000 years.
1 Cor. 14:34-35 - Paul says a woman is not allowed to preach the word of God in the Church. It has always been the tradition of the Church by the priest or deacon only (ordered a male) to read and preach the Gospel.
1 Tim. 2:12 - Paul also said that a woman is not allowed to hold authority in the teaching of the Church. Can you imagine how much Mary, Mother of God, would have been able to teach Christians about his Son Jesus in the Church? However, he is not allowed to hold this kind of teaching authority in the Church.
Rom. 16:1-2 - while many Protestants point to terminate this verse in the tradition of the Church, the priesthood of a man, Diaconis, like Phoebe, were assistants to the priests (eg the preparation of naked women for a baptism order to avoid scandal). However, these helpers were never ordered.
Luke 2:36-37 - prophetesses, like Anna, the woman who was devoted to religious life, but were not sorted.
Isaiah 3:12 - Isaiah complains that the priests of ancient Israel had their authority usurped by women, and this was at the height of Israel's covenant apostasy.
No, women should not be allowed to become Catholic priests. Jesus did call any woman when he named his 12 apostles?
I get very tired of the argument that because women can not be priests, we are somehow second-class citizens in the Church. Nothing could be further from the truth. After all, the Father chose a woman to give birth to her Son, the Messiah, the Savior of the world.
Women are capable of serving in any capacity within the Church. The opportunities are endless. Personally I feel overwhelmed sometimes with all the opportunities they face today as a woman in the Roman Catholic Church.
Absolutely not.
This is what the Catechism of the Catholic Church says,
"Only a baptized man (vir) validly receives sacred ordination." The Lord Jesus chose men (viri) to form the college of the twelve apostles and the apostles did the same when they chose collaborators to succeed in his ministry. The college of bishops, priests with whom we are united in the priesthood, makes the college of the twelve an ever-present and ever active reality until Christ's return. The Church recognizes herself to be bound by this choice made by the Lord Himself. For this reason the ordination of women is not possible. "CCC 1577
No, nobody should be a Catholic priest