Are female bosses allowed?

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Hey! This is a really quick question but I couldn’t find any real discussion about it. I don’t know much about Catholicism but are women allowed to be bosses? And have authority over men that way? I know the Bible has some verses about women not having authority over men but I’ve been told they just mean the priesthood. thanks!
 
Marinakeer said:
Hey! This is a really quick question but I couldn’t find any real discussion about it. I don’t know much about Catholicism but are women allowed to be bosses? And have authority over men that way? I know the Bible has some verses about women not having authority over men but I’ve been told they just mean the priesthood. thanks!
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I don’t understand how anyone in this day and age could ask this question. The answer is a clear and unequivocal YES.
 
Believe it or not- most of the world oppresses women still. Rape, fgm, honor killings, arranged marriages, lack of education, lack of proper menstrual products, laws that inhibit the basic human rights of women, et cetera. So- I’m no surprised someone is asking. I- very recently- came across some guy on an Orthodox board who was all against young women being allowed education and jobs if it got in the way of what the men in their lives thought they should be doing instead. These regressives that don’t see women as legal persons that should have basic human rights can be found everywhere. They love using religion to justify their misogyny.
 
Are you a woman wanting to be a boss? Have you received a promotion ?
 
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Not only can they be, but they should be bosses and have authority in situations where they have superior skills of governance. Angela Merkel, the German Chancellor since 2005, comes to mind. Former Chancellor Helmut Kohl recognized her extraordinary talent early on and promoted her political career.

For spiritual authority over men, the church follows the specific example set by Jesus and the instructions of St. Paul: women are not permitted to have authority over men in the governance of the sacraments or the liturgy — so they cannot be ordained clergy. We don’t really know why, exactly. Cardinal Ladaria, prefect of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, affirmed the infallibility of this dogma again in 2018.
 
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I know the Bible has some verses about women not having authority over men
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The verse (singular) that you’re referring to specifically says “in church”, and we aren’t even bound by that today, as it was a disciplinary instruction for that particular time and place.
 
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I don’t know much about Catholicism but are women allowed to be bosses? And have authority over men that way?
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Yes, of course women can be “bosses”, a.k.a managers, directors, CEOs, owners of companies, heads of companies, abbesses of convents, and more.
Marinakeer said:
I know the Bible has some verses about women not having authority over men but I’ve been told they just mean the priesthood
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Sounds like maybe you need some more bible study in your life.

Yes, those verses about authority are talking about in the assembly, as in the magisterium and hierarchy of the Church.

Even within the Church, women can be “bosses” such as in the various Vatican offices and congregations, within women’s religious orders, and in lay ministries and charities, as university professors and deans, hospital directors and more.
 
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Yes

You’ve never heard of nuns who run hospitals, schools or orphanages?

Have you been hanging around the Christian Reconstructionist websites?
 
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CoffeeFanatic said:
They love using religion to justify their misogyny.
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If religion didn’t exist, they’d use another reason as a cudgel.

I’ve met atheists who have used evolutionary biology to justify the mistreatment of women.
 
Marinakeer said:
I don’t know much about Catholicism but are women allowed to be bosses? And have authority over men that way?
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Yes and yes.

The Catholic Church does not restrict the career paths of women. A woman might be a CEO or a queen or whatever and have all sorts of authority in her work. The Church doesn’t care, and in fact has many saints who were women of authority, such as many queens, and St. Joan of Arc who was a military leader and led men into battle.
 
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Marinakeer:
I don’t know much about Catholicism but are women allowed to be bosses? And have authority over men that way?
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Yes, of course women can be “bosses”, a.k.a managers, directors, CEOs, owners of companies, heads of companies, abbesses of convents, and more.
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We are not amused.

God save the Queen! 👑
 
She isn’t Catholic though.

The Church of England may not have a problem with her being the monarch but what about the Catholic Church?

OP must have been looking at the Christian Reconstructionist websites which says women exerting authority over men is a curse of God. Examples are a female state trooper handing a male motorist a speeding ticket or a female professor teaching Hebrew to men at a Christian university.

He may have been at the Traditionalist Catholic websites which are against women being financially independent of men and attending university.

By the way, there was a female professor of Hebrew at a Southern Baptist University who was fired because the higher ups didn’t like the idea of a woman teaching men. This happened in the early 2000s.
 
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Sarcelle said:
The Church of England may not have a problem with her being the monarch but what about the Catholic Church?
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As I said, the Church has many saints who were queens, such as St. Hedwig, St. Helena, St. Margaret of Scotland, St. Matilda of Ringelheim, St. Olga of Kiev.
The Church has no problem with queens.
 
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