What does the Bible say about women pastors? Also your thoughts please

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That is false. No women can become priests in the Catholic Church. The Church has no authority to ordain women.
 
Pope John Paul II:

"4. Although the teaching that priestly ordination is to be reserved to men alone has been preserved by the constant and universal Tradition of the Church and firmly taught by the Magisterium in its more recent documents, at the present time in some places it is nonetheless considered still open to debate, or the Church’s judgment that women are not to be admitted to ordination is considered to have a merely disciplinary force.

"Wherefore, in order that all doubt may be removed regarding a matter of great importance, a matter which pertains to the Church’s divine constitution itself, in virtue of my ministry of confirming the brethren (cf. Lk 22:32) I declare that the Church has no authority whatsoever to confer priestly ordination on women and that this judgment is to be definitively held by all the Church’s faithful.

“Invoking an abundance of divine assistance upon you, venerable brothers, and upon all the faithful, I impart my apostolic blessing.”

Source: Ordinatio Sacerdotalis (May 22, 1994) | John Paul II
 
Lifeisbeautiful3 said:
Haven’t made up my mind, but am saying that the interpretation may relax to be more inclusive
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You should know by now as a Catholic that women will never be priests in the Catholic Church. It is infallibly taught that God did not give the Church authority for that and so the Church cannot ordain women.
All the jumping up and down will NEVER change that.
 
This is not a “very heated subject”. The Church has spoken. Women cannot be priests. Any attempt to ordain them would just be illicit and invalid. They cannot be ordained.

Anyone who thinks that this can happen is denying the truth of the faith. It will never happen. EVER. EVER. EVER. EVER.

And I am so happy!
 
I also add that women have many roles in our Church. Consecrated life, family life, Extraordinary Ministers, Lay Pastoral Workers. We love the role women have, but we know what roles are acceptable and what are not.
 
Let’s not forget that today, women DO teach in the Church (not during the Liturgy of course.) But they are Professors in Theological Seminaries and teach priests and seminarians!
 
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I also add that women have many roles in our Church. Consecrated life, family life, Extraordinary Ministers, Lay Pastoral Workers. We love the role women have, but we know what roles are acceptable and what are not.
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Keep in mind, too, that of the estimated 1.2 billion Catholics on the planet, only about one in 14,000 is a priest. The vast majority of us are not and never will be priests, yet as Pope St. John Paul II wrote: Every disciple is personally called by name; no disciple can withhold making a response: “Woe to me, if I do not preach the gospel” (1 Cor 9:16).

The role that every one of us ought to be anxious to pursue is not priest nor pastor, but saint, and we have been supplied with both Our Lord and Our Lady as models towards that end. It was not by accident that Our Lord chose a Mother for the Church who was not a pastor nor a leader as the world is accustomed to account people to be leaders, but one who by her unfailing obedience to the Holy Spirit was always the Queen of the Apostles. Even priests, then, should not be ambitious to hold places of honor but always ought to be willing to do what is needed by their bishop in the pastoral care of the faithful. Anyone who is hungry for the priesthood because he (or she) sees it as a position of power is showing how unsuited for the vocation he is.
 
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