Why doesn't God want women to be priests?

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Let me first start of by saying that I 100% assent to the church teaching that woman cannot be priests and I’m sure there’s a good reason behind it. Jesus didn’t ordain women after all. I am just curious as to why this is so. I know God created men and women to be different, and there surely is some reason why He chose the priesthood to be for men. I have found that not just knowing what the church teaches, but also understanding why it teaches what it does has been extremely helpful to me for growing in faith. I always accepted masturbation and contraception were wrong, but when I came to truly understand why the church teaches they are wrong, it made a lot more sense. Is there a similar good explanation for why God doesn’t want women to be priests?
 
I admire the mindset but I don’t know the answer to the question

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I suggest JPII’s Ordinatio Sacerdotalis, which discusses this in depth.
 
The Church respects natural law, which positions men as leaders and governors. Thus, since priests have a role to govern and/or direct souls, they must be men.

Besides, it is also part of Sacred Tradition. Since the age of the patriarcs, men, not women, were the ones to offer sacrifice to God. Adam, Abel, Noah, Abraham, Jacob, Aram, levites, temple priests and now Church priests. Moreover, don’t forget Jesus Christ, a man, offered the sacrifice on calvary. He is the ultimate priest model.
 
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At this point and any point God never supported women priests regardless of human ‘threats’ to walk away from Him.
Many therefore of his disciples, hearing it, said: This saying is hard, and who can hear it?
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After this many of his disciples went back; and walked no more with him.
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I have to admit that the annoyingness of many if not most female clergy in the Episcopal Church is enough to turn one off to the concept right there.

My mother warned me about that too.
 
The reason is not simple. First we need to understand what it entails to be an “Alter Christus”. Which literally means “In place of” or “Another Christ”, this is not saying that the priest is replacing HIM but that he is IN REPRESENTATION of HIM, Jesus who has died for us on the cross.

GOD will not crucify a woman for the sin of man. Man was created to be the head of the family, on his shoulders HE put the burden and at the first trial he quickly discharged his guilt on the woman.
Genesis 3:12 And Adam said, “The woman, whom you gave to me as a companion, gave to me from the tree, and I ate.”
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As a result Jesus came down from Heaven as a true man to restore the human race to GOD.
Genesis 3:3 Yet truly, from the fruit of the tree which is in the middle of Paradise, God has instructed us that we should not eat, and that we should not touch it, lest perhaps we may die.”
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That is enough of a reason. There are others.

Peace!
 
In addition to the primary spiritual and sacramental reasons (men are fathers, and the priesthood has been directly associated with fatherhood since the Levitical priesthood; Jesus is the groom and the Church is the bride) there may also be secondary reasons in biology, in that men are callous and object-oriented enough to better hold onto and maintain socially unpopular doctrines.

Protestant denominations with female clergy seem to collapse rather quickly on doctrine in the name of compassion and kindness (albeit this was happening beforehand as well) and the membership collapses with it. I realize this might sound sexist but it is a fact that men and women are psychologically not the same and it doesn’t seem surprising to me that if God appointed a male-only priesthood, that it would be for reasons; that it’s more than just an artifact of ancient Judaism.
 
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OP, the Eastern Orthodox do not ordain women either. Also, the Blessed Virgin Mary was not ordained a priestess, and yet she is first among saints. God is wiser than any of us.
 
This is not church teaching but my observations. It seems that women are very involved in all aspect of church life, willingly and joyfully serving in many capacities. There are many times I wonder where the men are. If the women are doing it, it seems like they are happy to step aside and let that continue. This culture also seems to have many fatherless families. I think we are in the midst of a crisis of fatherhood. Good, loving and serving Christian fathers. This is a time when we really need shining examples of men serving in all kinds of capacities, and certainly as a priest on the altar. Both our boys and girls need this modelled to them.
 
The difference here is that the priesthood isn’t just another profession, but a vocation.
 
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Protestant denominations with female clergy seem to collapse rather quickly on doctrine in the name of compassion and kindness
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I’m not too sure about what’s the cause and the symptoms here, although I share the diagnosis. As a (for now, but probably not very long anymore) female Reformed minister, I feel like I’m one of the few ones holding to doctrine, while quite a few male colleagues are firmly in the “compassion and kindness” camp.

I think I told that before on the forums, but a priest friend once said to me : “the main difference between our churches is that your church’s identity is looking for the truth, mine’s is knowing what it is and defending it”. To me, belonging to a Reformed tradition which was heavily influenced by 19th-century Protestant liberalism, his analysis is spot on. We, as a denomination, simply do not think any longer that we have a right to affirm what is true, but we rather see truth is some faraway inaccessible good we will never reach in this life. When you have that outlook, then compassion and kindness are pretty much the only moral compass you’re left with. I’d say the way we gave up on truth is the root of the evil.
 
A lot. It’s not just about doing a job, but being the man God called into the priesthood.

A priest at Mass is Christ on the altar and Christ was a man and therefore the priest must be a man.
 
I opened that but then read one reason is it is linked to homosexual activism. I appreciate it is one woman’s opinion but.
 
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