[muawiyah]

See Post #5. That's what I was making my response to.

There are some really, really, really serious differences in the ways Catholics and Protestants read the Bible.

BTW, the opportunity for a woman to become a Roman Catholic Bishop is roughly identical to the opportunity for a woman to become a Grand Ayatollah. Check it out!

[AgThorn]

There are some really, really, really serious differences in the ways Catholics and Protestants read the Bible.

Of course anything Christian that is not the same as Catholic can be labeled Protestant but such a simple 'grouping' of all non-Catholic churches makes the wrongful suggestion that "Protestant" is a denomination or something, denoting some organized belief system other than just being 'non-Catholic'.

On this particular point (men only as priests/pastors), many of the Protestant denominations seem to parallel the Catholic stance. Any denomination that takes a 'literal' read from the bible, Pentacostal for example, agrees with the ROC on this. Oddly enough, Aimey McPherson's denomination (4 square) is one of them.

[Wessex]

"BTW, the opportunity for a woman to become a Roman Catholic Bishop is roughly identical to the opportunity for a woman to become a Grand Ayatollah. Check it out!"


There are now:

1) Altar girls
2) Female gospel readers
3) Female eucharistic ministers
4) Female lay preachers in lieu of priests
5) Female seminarians and theologians
6) Female Vatican and diocesan officials at a high level

Just a question of time .....