Why can't women be ordained, when they can be baptized

[adamhovey1988]

“All the baptized participate in Christ. Since Christ is the fulfillment of the priest, prophet, and king that means that all the baptized are those as well.” Bishop-elect Robert Barron

1. Women are baptized.
2. Anyone who is baptized is the fulfillment of the priest, prophet, and king through Christ
3. Women fulfill the priest, prophet, and king through Christ
4. Anyone who fulfills the priest through Christ may become a priest and perform the acts Christ performed as priest (such as offering his sacrifice in the eucharist).
5. Women may become priests and perform the acts Christ performed as priest (such as offering his sacrifice in the eucharist).

It is true that all Christians share in the priesthood of Christ however only men can be ordained to the sacramental priesthood the reason for that is because all twelve apostles were men. With all due respect and I’m glad you’re asking questions I think you are reading things that aren’t there there is a difference between ministerial priesthood which is conferred only to men and the priesthood of all believers which is conferred to every baptized person

 

[SerraSemper]

The logical fallacy of composition is one where you assume that because the whole is made of one thing, that each individual part is made of the same thing. That is the logical fallacy I was referring to. It does not mean that some of the individual parts couldn’t share a feature of the whole.

Let me give you an example: a military unit has uniforms. It would be a fallacy of composition to assume that each member of that unit has uniforms just because the unit as a whole does. Some of the employees could very well be civilians or contractors who come to work in plain civilian clothing. Even though some of the members wear uniforms, not all do.

In the same way, the Church is the Bride of Christ. That doesn’t mean that all members are individually Brides of Christ, even though some members (like yourself) may be. It would be a fallacy to assume that all men are the Bride of Christ simply because they are subordinate members of the Church, which is corporately the Bride of Christ.

Hopefully that clears up your confusion about what I was getting at.

All baptized men are brides of Christ in the sense that they belong to the Church and the Church is the Bride of Christ. All baptized men are priests, prophets, and kings in the sense that the belong to Christ’s body through baptism. However, only certain humans (men) can receive the fullness of the priesthood (Orders) and only certain humans can receive the fullness of bridehood (sacred female virgins).