Why women cant be Catholic Priests

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I knew that Fr. Longenecker would get some flak for this article—not so much because he reaffirms that women cannot be ordained priests—but because he notes that the human race consists of two sexes, and that they are not the same. That is the way we are created.

To the modern world, it is a heresy even to acknowledge the difference, let alone to consider it of any importance or of divine origin.
 
The date on the calendar is not important, only people change things. Including ways of thinking.

"2. Recent years have seen new approaches to women’s issues. A first tendency is to emphasize strongly conditions of subordination in order to give rise to antagonism: women, in order to be themselves, must make themselves the adversaries of men. Faced with the abuse of power, the answer for women is to seek power. This process leads to opposition between men and women, in which the identity and role of one are emphasized to the disadvantage of the other, leading to harmful confusion regarding the human person, which has its most immediate and lethal effects in the structure of the family.

"A second tendency emerges in the wake of the first. In order to avoid the domination of one sex or the other, their differences tend to be denied, viewed as mere effects of historical and cultural conditioning. In this perspective, physical difference, termed sex, is minimized, while the purely cultural element, termed gender, is emphasized to the maximum and held to be primary. The obscuring of the difference or duality of the sexes has enormous consequences on a variety of levels. This theory of the human person, intended to promote prospects for equality of women through liberation from biological determinism, has in reality inspired ideologies which, for example, call into question the family, in its natural two-parent structure of mother and father, and make homosexuality and heterosexuality virtually equivalent, in a new model of polymorphous sexuality.

“3. While the immediate roots of this second tendency are found in the context of reflection on women’s roles, its deeper motivation must be sought in the human attempt to be freed from one’s biological conditioning.2 According to this perspective, human nature in itself does not possess characteristics in an absolute manner: all persons can and ought to constitute themselves as they like, since they are free from every predetermination linked to their essential constitution.”

Taken from:

LETTER TO THE BISHOPS OF THE CATHOLIC CHURCH
ON THE COLLABORATION OF MEN AND WOMEN
IN THE CHURCH AND IN THE WORLD
 
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phil19034 said:
Finally, if Jesus wanted female priests, he would have simply appointed them. Jesus was NOT afraid of challenging societal norms. And God was not limited to coming 2000 years ago. He could have come at a different time if He wanted women (assuming He needed to do select female priests at a different time).
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He was vilified and crucified coming as a man in short enough order as it was. As Paul said, women were not to speak in those times. Times have changed.
 
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Then I will again re-state that those women who are under the notion that being a priest or bishop denotes some kind of superiority ought to join one of the many denominations that allow it, and leave the Catholic and Orthodox Churches alone. They need to go find something that will bend to their wishes instead of ones that only bend to God’s.
I’m rather salty on this subject because I’ve seen the devastation wreaked upon ECUSA because they chose (by the narrowest of margins) to eschew canon law, and they’re paying for it in dwindling numbers.
Also, it’s the world that’s perverted sexuality, not the Church.
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I never understand when dwindling numbers of non Catholic faith communities are brought up on a Catholic board. I’ve been in plenty of Catholic churches and never have had a problem finding a seat. At Christmas and Easter I’ve found they can be more crowded. But there are plenty of Catholics who have dropped out of the practice of the faith.
 
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Sy_Noe said:
I never understand when dwindling numbers of non Catholic faith communities are brought up on a Catholic board. I’ve been in plenty of Catholic churches and never have had a problem finding a seat. At Christmas and Easter I’ve found they can be more crowded. But there are plenty of Catholics who have dropped out of the practice of the faith.
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It’s because the people who promote these things claim that it will help the Church grow, but when we look at the communities who previously made such changes, we don’t see an increase in faith… we only see an increase in fundamental Protestantism
 
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Brendan_64 said:
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Can intersex persons be priests?
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There are only two genders, male and female.
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Galatians 3:28 There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither bond nor free, there is neither male nor female: for ye are all one in Christ Jesus.
 
Hoho? Who do you think informed Eve of the matter of the fruit and the tree?
 
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He was vilified and crucified coming as a man in short enough order as it was. As Paul said, women were not to speak in those times. Times have changed.
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And as another poster already made clear, Jesus was no stranger to challenging the social norms of His time. If He wanted to do it, He would have- but He didn’t. End of story.
 
Yes end of story to the Catholic faithful and you express the Catholic pov well.
 
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I’m just asking but what if tradition has had something wrong? Do you dismiss any possibility of reason and human finite understanding of an infinite being potentially growing and evolving over time?
 
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There is possibility of tradition being wrong, but not Sacred Tradition.

You’ll note much of Tradition points to historical events and not understanding of God per se.

Mere tradition with a small t is of man, but Sacred Tradition is not merely that.
 
Never heard of the Kolbe Center before, but it’s not quoting anything, so it could be making that supposed facet of “tradition” up for all I know.
 
The simple fact of the matter is that Adam was told of the tree when and with whom? He seems to be alone. Then Eve knows about it…
I have heard it before, that Adam was to catechize her. It’s not just them that say similar things.
 
Kei said:
The simple fact of the matter is that Adam was told of the tree when and with whom? He seems to be alone. Then Eve knows about it…

I have heard it before, that Adam was to catechize her. It’s not just them that say similar things.
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Hearsay. Totally traditional.

Know who else could have told her? God.
 
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Galatians 3:28 There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither bond nor free, there is neither male nor female: for ye are all one in Christ Jesus.
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Of course that is true, but I don’t think St Paul was talking about modern gender perceptions there.
 
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