How do pro-women's ordination deal with the 12 male Apostles?

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Why didn’t Christ choose women? Maybe he simply didn’t find any that He wanted to choose. It may have nothing to do with gender or genitalia.

Also, there’s a very practical reason. Peter was for sure to be the head of His Church. So already there had to be two men. It makes perfect sense to have a same-sex endeavor. What if there had been six men and six women, ostensibly to make some grand statement about affirmative actions or gender equality? Can you imagine what kinds of sexual attractions and petty jealousies could have emerged and undermined the mission of spreading the Gospel?

Christ chose men to join Him during His lifetime. But that factor, in and of itself, does not signify that He wanted only men in the priesthood.
 
But the OP was asking about people who were in the movement and what they thought.

It is not a question of whether or not woman can be priests, but what women who were in the movement thought.
 
This is another argument that never made sense. Christ supposedly had a beard, and my priest doesn’t. Christ was poor, where a lot of seminarians and priests had middle-class or affluent backgrounds. Christ was of a different ethnicity than probably any of our priests. Do people have to by exactly like His physical self in order to pursue the priesthood?

FTR, I remain uncertain on the issue of female priests.
 
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Anytime i see/hear someone say that the Catholic Church doesn’t value women I think of Mary, and Mother Angelica. You don’t need to be a priest to be a valuable person to the Church.

For a simple nun, Mother Angelica was pretty awesome and did a huge service of spreading Catholicism in the 20th century to distant countries with her radio/tv productions, as well as reaching every day Americans who were hungry for her message.

Mary-- well, Mary is Mary and needs no further comment from me. Rather than focusing on the things that women are not chosen to do within the church, why not focus on the things we have been chosen to do and DO those things be they small or large, with love.
 
I have no doubt that one day the Catholic Church will have female priests. God has this beautiful way of designing his creations so they evolve, and this includes priesthood. We just aren’t there yet, judging by the posts on this topic. In due time.
 
Put aside for the moment the notions of infallibility, and the fact that it is currently a “definitive” teaching by the magisterium.

For many other reasons, we wouldn’t see it in our lifetime.

The many other circumstances (such as believing in its alleged infallibility, the inevitable schism such decision would cause, the relations with Orthodox churches – who do not ordain women – and the way the bishops operate) would lead us to believe that such a natural evolution won’t happen for another 200 years.

Again, and that’s apart from the idea of it being settled infallible teaching.
 
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This is a Catholic forum. Answer from Pope John Paul II.

In the Apostolic Letter Mulieris Dignitatem, I myself wrote in this regard: “In calling only men as his Apostles, Christ acted in a completely free and sovereign manner. In doing so, he exercised the same freedom with which, in all his behavior, he emphasized the dignity and the vocation of women, without conforming to the prevailing customs and to the traditions sanctioned by the legislation of the time.”(5)
 
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So that’s how pro-women ordination Christians answer the question??
 
The Catholic Church has no authority to ordain women. Period.
 
So that’s the answer a Christian in support of women’s ordination would say?

“Member of a progressive church, why do you support women’s ordination?”

Member of progressive church: “I support women’s ordination because the Catholic Church has no authority to ordain women.”

See how you’re not really addressing the subject of this thread?
 
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Was Mary Magdalene at the table at the Last Supper?
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Mark 14:17-18 states “And when evening was come, he cometh with the twelve. And when they were at table and eating, Jesus saith: Amen I say to you, one of you that eateth with me will betray me.”

This would seem to specify that Jesus sat at table with the twelve at the Last Supper, and not the twelve plus others.
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A pope already said that they don’t have the authority.
 
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Right. But in 500 years another Pope may say something else. There is nothing to preclude that from happening. Evolution.
 
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That sounds naive considering how the Church works.
 
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From an agnostic theistic perspective like yours, of course, that’s true.

But from the traditional Catholic view, no, since it seems the teaching on women’s ordination falls under the ordinary and infallible magisterium. I.e., that’s unalterable.
 
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