Evanescence:
What is the belief on women in the Catholic Church?
That they are equal creations to men. Actually, the Catholic Church recognizes God’s Greatest Creation was a woman, not a man; Mary the Mother of God.
is men considered more important than women? and is women thought of as dirty and seductive?
Nope, On this I would really suggest reading Pope John Paul’s apostolic letter on women
“Mulieris Dignitatem”
Also why isn’t women allowed to be priests?
Equal does not mean “the same”. God created men and women to have different roles, different functions. Since these roles were created by God, the Church has no authority to change them
For example, the Pope has no Authority to declare that males may now bear children. God ordained that women are the bearers of Biological Life. The Church cannot change that.
Humans are made up of two parts though, Body and Soul, Biology and Ontology,
corprae et anima unis (body and soul united), to quote St. Thomas Aquinas (who was quoting St. Augustine). Without either one, there is no ‘human’.
To be equal, as God created females to be bearers of Biological Life, He created males to be the bearers of Ontological Life, the Eucharist and Confession.
Like Biological Life, the Church has no Authority to declare that women may now bring forth Ontological Life.
God created both sexes to be equal partners in the creation of human life, though each sex has a particular, unique contribution to Life that is decidedly seperate from the other.
And this seperation cannot be changed by the Church.
Sorry if this has been discussed over and over…please link me to the threads if they have been
Evanescence
No problem at all
