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I'm sure many of you who read the news know that the Catholic Church has deemed the ordination of women a sin comparable to molestation and sexual abuse, raising the ire of many women groups across the globe, and some religious groups who oppose this ruling. The Catholic Church (via Wikipedia!) has said that the ordination of men is only permissible due to the fact that "the example recorded in the Sacred Scriptures of Christ choosing his Apostles only from among men; the constant practice of the Church, which has imitated Christ in choosing only men; and her living teaching authority which has consistently held that the exclusion of women from the priesthood is in accordance with God's plan for his Church." Furthermore, they cite "that masculinity was integral to the personhood of both Jesus and the men he called as apostles. The Roman Catholic Church sees maleness and femaleness as two different ways of expressing common humanity." (Again, all taken from Wikipedia, I'm pretty ignorant on the subject here but curious about it). But I don't see any reason why the ordination of women actively blocks the work of Christ or is detrimental to it. I don't see how the argument the apostles were all male, means that women thus cannot become priests.
Does anyone want to shed light on the subject, or talk about other reasons why women SHOULD be ordained?
Link: http://www.thestar.com/news/gta/art...law-labels-sex-abuse-female-priests-as-crimes
Does anyone want to shed light on the subject, or talk about other reasons why women SHOULD be ordained?
Link: http://www.thestar.com/news/gta/art...law-labels-sex-abuse-female-priests-as-crimes