Comments on: Why Women Cannot be priests in the Catholic religion ??????

By: James N

James N — Thu, 06 Aug 2009 04:06:20 +0000

I think Mary is the model for women, and priests dedicated their lives to the service, as a model for men. Therefore, women should be worshiped by their relationship with God, through the ability to create new life. Are most useful for this and other reasons as men. On a practical level a woman can have a harder time running the day to day physical activities (in the old days it was more difficult maintenance work then today) … it became instead Nuns.

By: tacs1ave

tacs1ave — Thu, 06 Aug 2009 04:06:20 +0000

LOL … must be tired … the first thing that came into my head is: "It's pretty hard for a lady called" father "…..
Peace be with you … I hope someone has a clear answer for you lol Good night everybody!

By: ForeverS

ForeverS — Thu, 06 Aug 2009 04:06:20 +0000

Good question. I was born and raised Catholic. But I can not fulfill my mission for Christ in the Catholic Church. So I fear it will have no choice but to leave. My father believes it has a spiritual being called a minister and has been a dream since the highest first mentioned.

By: silver wings

silver wings — Thu, 06 Aug 2009 04:06:20 +0000

Sexist attitudes in the Christian scriptures are seen as God-sanctioned and perpetuated the tradition rather than simply recognized as obsolete and immoral.

By: Paladin

Paladin — Thu, 06 Aug 2009 04:06:20 +0000

This is not biblical:
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.
Do not be fooled by the modern (supposedly enlightened) society. The Church has been around for some 2000 years. Obviously, the Church has flourished with his Biblically-above all men priesthood.
Only in the last forty years or so that society has become much more open sexually. Now I am supposed to believe that the Church has been an error of 2000 years based on the latest social fad "?
To be blunt, modern views of sexuality is a false god in your life. The true God has given a back seat to their social idealism.
Do not allow to define social and political trends of his theology. It is supposed to be upside down. Let Catholic theology to define their views on social / political trends.

By: Daver

Daver — Thu, 06 Aug 2009 04:06:20 +0000

Religious leaders come from a long line of male power and control fans. They are not going to give that up.

By: valcus43

valcus43 — Thu, 06 Aug 2009 04:06:20 +0000

Because we set it up to the total control of men who are really afraid of women power.

By: Lady Morgana

Lady Morgana — Thu, 06 Aug 2009 04:06:20 +0000

Read the book of 1st Timothy … I believe that Chapter 3

By: Alleycat

Alleycat — Thu, 06 Aug 2009 04:06:20 +0000

Women can not be priests because that is not the way Jesus established his Church. However, while on earth, Jesus did give other important roles for women.
From "The Rock" magazine:
"There are other features that Christ had in mind for women. For example, played a key role in spreading the Gospel, being the first to spread the news of the risen Christ. They are also allowed to pray in the church and prophecy (1 Cor. 11:1-16), but not to assume the role of education in the Christian assembly (1Cor. 14:34-38, 1 Tim. 2:1 -14), which is limited to clerics. "
And do not forget that God created women to give life. He chose a woman to give birth to her Son, our Lord and Messiah, Jesus Christ.

By: Faustina

Faustina — Thu, 06 Aug 2009 04:06:20 +0000

Catholic or Roman Catholic?