Female Catholic priests?

[Brigid]

I say, "why not." Even though the Church insists that it has nothing against women serving in just about any other role, which we do, and deeply appreciates our contributions over the centuries, I still do not buy the arguments they use against ordaining us.


What say ye?

[Tangerine LaBamba]

1. ME FIRST!!!!!!!!

I got a good outfit already!!!

"Mother LaBamba." Tell me that doesn't have a ring to it.........

[Xipe Totec]

2. That could potentially save the Catholic church from oblivion

So, my answer is no.

[ejpoeta]

3. not gonna happen. the catholic church is just too patriarchal

and they aren't going to have women as priests. they should, but it's not going to happen. look at the structure. look at all those bishops kissing that pope's ring. women are less than in catholic church. nothing more than glorified baby factories. much the same as most other religions. their goal is to keep us all in our place. what do girls wear at first communion? it looks kind of like a bride's dress, doesn't it. at least when i went through it it did.

[rurallib]

4. which first? Single-payer health care or female Catholic priests

I say both are fantasies that will never happen.

[glinda]

5. Will never happen. I am for it but will never ever happen. You might have to become Episcopalian.

[Why Syzygy]

6. For men who

at their first counsel, voted on whether or not women have souls, I don't anticipate the change.

[JerseygirlCT]

7. I say I'm no longer a R. Catholic in large part

because the boys in Rome will ordinate a monkey (male, of course) before they allow the ordination of women.

Of course women who are called to the priesthood should be priests. Anything else is just stupid.

Fortunately, I've had several wonderful female priests since becoming an Episcopalian. And a marvelous example they've set for my children, too.

I admire those who are able to stay and fight, but I'm convinced that any change will be a very long time coming - several lifetimes at the least.

[ZombieHorde]

8. Wouldn't they just be called, "Catholic priestesses".

[RetiredTrotskyite]

9. I Sure Do't See It Happening...

I was Roman Catholic for 8 years and Eastern Orthodox for sixteen...and I know that neither church will ordain women in the foreseeable future. Of course women make perfectly good priests and bishops, but the RC and EO churches are glorified "good ole boys' clubs" where women are wanted mostly to do the work the men consider beneath them and to produce more believers. This is why I bailed out on both and went to the Old Catholic Church. I think any woman who feels a calling to the priesthood should consider the Episcopal or Old Catholic Churches. It's about time that women quit taking this sexist bullshit sitting down and vote with their feet!

[CatholicEdHead]

10. I am 100% for it

but do not see it happening anytime soon. It upsets the "Good Ole Boys Club". Even the first step, allowing married priests is like pulling teeth in this neo-retro movement. :crazy:

[Brigid]

11. A wonderful experience today on this topic.

It has often occurred to me that one of the biggest reasons there are no women in the priesthood is that not that many women are very concerned about it, really. Earlier this evening I had a wonderful experience that gives me an idea why. I missed Mass this morning, so I went to another one at a different parish this evening instead. It is staffed by the Franciscans. A franciscan sister, Sister Barbara, was there, telling us about her work many years ago in Papua New Guinea. She said her work most consisted of teaching the Gospel to women and girls. She was needed in that role because in that culture it is not considered worth the trouble to educate them. She said they wanted her to teach them the Gospel so that they could in turn teach their people. An elementary school, high school, and even college were established. When she returned briefly a decade later, she found that the girls she had taught were teachers, nurses, and even missionaries by that time. When I thought of the wonderful work she and the other sisters had done, I realized that had I asked her about ordination of women, she probably would have told me it was irrelevant; she was just too busy doing the Lord's work to even think about it, and not being ordained certainly wasn't stopping her. That's the way it's always been for women in the Church; we just do it. :)

[skepticscott]

12. And what makes you think you have to "buy" them?

The Catholic Church has never been, and will never be a democracy. They are not remotely interested in, or responsive to, opinions on this subject from the subservient masses. As far as the ordination of women, you will get what they tell you, which is same thing you've always gotten....nothing.

[dmallind]

13. The trouble is...

...by their own doctrine and magisterium, there is no room for reversal. The bases for their arguments, whether they make sense to you or not (outside the context of church law they don't make sense to many people), lead inescapably to the conclusion of an all-male clergy. It's not even something that they could do a slow shift on like other social issues.