[OLD REGGIE]

also SD, what would your response be if tomorrow the Catholic Church decided to ordain female Bishops and Priests. Would you accept it because the Church is to be obeyed? Or would you question this decision??
If you question it, then my question to you is, why? Why would you question it??

You really don't understand the idea of an infallible Church. You might as well ask what I would do if tomorrow the Church announced that this "Jesus thing" was just a lark. "Everyone go back to being Jews." Won't happen. Can't happen. Try to understand that for a minute. SD
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The "infallible Church" has never declared "infallibly" that women cannot be ordained. There are very, very few "infallible" declarations.

Can happen. May happen.
Married clergy: Can happen. Will probably happen.

There is no biblical prohibition to women clergy. It is nothing but "tradition".

[RobbyS]

It is nothing but "tradition". That is like saying that the role of judges in the common law is nothing but "tradition." Married clergy is another matter: the Eastern rites in union with Rome already have married clergy.

[pegleg]

The "infallible Church" has never declared "infallibly" that women cannot be ordained. .....Can happen. May happen.

Has already been decided. See my link on post 105 on thread 150. The will NEVER happen.

Married clergy: Can happen. Will probably happen.

Has already happened with the exception of the Latin right. And there are exceptions to that rule for some Anglican converts. This might happen.

[Conservative til I die]

Women will never be anointed as priests...ever.

[poet]

If true, how do you explain I Corinthians Chapter 14, Verses 34 & 35? 34: "Let your women keep silent in the churches, for they are not permitted to speak, but, they are to be submissive as the law also says"<
35: "It is shameful for women to speak in church"
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