Theological Divisions within Mormonism

[iepuras]

A woman can’t be a priest but the reasoning for it within the Catholic Church and with the LDS church is very different. I’m a woman and very Catholic. I have zero embarrassment about the fact a woman can’t be a priest. However, it is my opinion that women are valued far more in the Catholic Church than they are in the LDS Church.

Think about how women in the Catholic Church are valued regardless of their marital status. If a woman’s vocation is marriage wonderful, if it’s single life, wonderful, if her call is to religious life, wonderful.

In the LDS church a woman’s call is to marry and have children. Even to the point that there is a belief that an unmarried woman in life will be married off as a second wife in the eternal life.

I have always been impressed with the treatment of women in the Catholic Church.

Many years ago when I was still LDS, I visited Ireland with my parents and went to the Book of Kells exhibit at Trinity University in Dublin, which had a heavy focus on monoasticism. I told my mother that if I were alive back then, I would have wanted to become a nun. She was shocked and appalled that I would want anything other than a husband and children.

 

[Marie5890]

I have always been impressed with the treatment of women in the Catholic Church.

Many years ago when I was still LDS, I visited Ireland with my parents and went to the Book of Kells exhibit at Trinity University in Dublin, which had a heavy focus on monoasticism. I told my mother that if I were alive back then, I would have wanted to become a nun. She was shocked and appalled that I would want anything other than a husband and children.

MANY women** preferred **becoming nuns over marriage. Many marriages were arranged and women were treated as property. Within religious life, women were far more likely to get a really good education etc etc.

For many women who wanted to enter into religious life but couldn’t were disappointed.

I know that St Teresa Martin “The Little Flower”, she and 2 of her sisters entered the convent over marriage, by choice. Many of those women who could not become nuns often became Third order members of various orders. I believe Catherine of Sienna was one of these?

 

[Horton]

To me it seems that in Mormonism all women are expected to conform and be exactly the same. But human are reamarkly diverse.

At least in our church women can be Sisters or Nuns. Not all pressured to be Mothers.

And even some women can do both. There are several religious community that take late vocations. For example I was married and had children. My first husband passed away and I divorced my second. I was able to obtain a decree of freedom for the second marriage (it was also his second marriage but his first wife was still living). My children are all raised and I have very little obligations, financial or otherwise, so I could enter a religious community and have the best of both lives. Marriage & family AND serving God as a religious.

 

[zaffiroborant]

And even some women can do both. There are several religious community that take late vocations. For example I was married and had children. My first husband passed away and I divorced my second. I was able to obtain a decree of freedom for the second marriage (it was also his second marriage but his first wife was still living). My children are all raised and I have very little obligations, financial or otherwise, so I could enter a religious community and have the best of both lives. Marriage & family AND serving God as a religious.

And again we see the Church as “expert in humanity”, I see nothing of that in the LDS church.

 

[Horton]

I wish our LDS friends would come back and speak to the last few posts. I understand it may be very uncomfortable, especially since we have a number of ex-LDS posters here to interpret what is meant by certain phrases. It would be nice to have their personal opinion of it.