No one can ever explain to me why so much in the Catholic Church always goes to being based on sex. Sex. Sex. Sex. The Church seems completely obsessed with it.
Do you mean ‘sex’ or do you mean ‘gender’? The two are different concepts, in the way you’re writing this, right?
Jesus never said anything about priests needing to be male. He never implied it through any of his actions.
He lived in a time when picking females for his apostles could have had disastrous results, for many.
That holds up only inasmuch as you believe the “Jesus was afraid to break social convention” meme. However, Jesus
seriously broke social conventions! (That’s why it’s important to understand Scripture before making claims about Jesus.
)
Do you remember the story of Jesus with the Samarian (aka ‘Syro-Phoenician’) woman at the well? Jesus was
way out there:
- He actually conversed with a Samaritan! That was absolutely verboten in that day.
- He actually conversed with a woman who was not his wife or mother or sister or daughter! That, too, was a strict social taboo!
So, if you want to make the claim that “Jesus would
never have picked a female apostle, but wouldn’t have minded doing so”, then you’re going to have to make a much stronger case, since we know that Jesus
didn’t kowtow to social conventions!
(Therefore, then, we conclude that since He chose twelve men, His intent was
to choose twelve men. It’s really not about “man-made gender bias”; it’s about following the decision Jesus Himself made.
)
This “policy” is man-made. And yes, I do mean “man” made. No female (name removed by moderator)ut whatsoever.
Right. 'Cause Jesus never interacted with women. 'Cause Jesus never allowed women to give (name removed by moderator)ut and never listened to the things they said, and sometimes changed his actions based on them or let them do things that weren’t ‘politically correct’. (You’ve really got to read the Gospels more closely…)
I guess with a position like the Church has regarding the place of women within the hierarchy, there can’t be complaining aboutt a shortage of priests.
psst… mainline Protestant denominations allow female ministers. You realize, don’t you, that
they have a vocations crisis too, right? So, “allowing female ministers” doesn’t solve the problem that you suppose it’ll solve.
Sorry for my rant. But not really sorry. I think it is important for Catholics to understand why most find this rule so objectionable.
And it’s important for non-Catholics to realize that the priesthood is a ‘vocation’, not a ‘job’, and therefore, any of the disagreement on this rule that comes from a “equal rights” perspective misses the point of what the priesthood is.
