Posted on 09/13/2009 8:29:54 PM PDT by Paycheck
In light of these different foundations, therefore, it is important to point out to our opponents that their very conception of equality is fundamentally different than our own. There is a false assumption that both sides view equality in the same way. As we can see, however, that is not a valid assumption at all. It is no surprise, therefore, to find that there is a divergence of opinion on the issue of women’s ordination. Feminists believe they don’t have equality in the Church because they are denied a function, but this is a distortion of what true equality is. Catholics say women already have equality because of their intrinsic dignity as human persons. Women complement men but are not the same as them.
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Because the Roman Catholic church says so.
my mother once told me that men were allowed to be priests to make it up to them that they couldn’t do the most important thing in the world: bring a new child to life.
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