[jo kus]

Women are quite "capable" of being a priest. Certainly, they can present homilies and execute the sacraments, humanly speaking.

However, this whole idea forgets the fact that Catholics are sacramental people. We don't use motor oil to baptize babies...We just don't get the picture mentally that an infant is being washed. We don't use broccoli and root beer to confect the Body of Christ. And we don't use woman to be "in the person of Christ" simply because Jesus was a man. This is not a dig on women's capabilities, but the idea that God works THROUGH the person. We are supposed to call to mind the visible sacramental action is happening in the Spiritual world. How can this be if we see a woman saying "take and eat, this is my Body"??

Regards

[sitetest]

Dear jo kus,

"Women are quite 'capable' of being a priest."

Actually, that's not Catholic teaching.

"Certainly, they can present homilies and execute the sacraments, humanly speaking."

Actually, no, they can't execute most of the sacraments. A woman can certainly baptize, but according to the Magisterium, a woman cannot ontologically receive Holy Orders, and thus, cannot absolve in the confessional, celebrate Mass and consecrate the Eucharist, nor confirm, nor marry two Catholics together, nor ordain others, nor give last rites.


sitetest

[annalex]

It is not mere church law regulating the sacraments that is violated. Female priests destroy the fundamental nature of the relationship between Christ and His Church. That relationship is nuptual, when the essentially male energy of Christ penetrates the Church as they unite in one mystical body and produce the offspring of Christendom. The Church is essentially female in it as she is the nurturing mother to us and the obedient partner to the head of the household Christ the Bridegroom. A woman cannot marry Christ's church and cannot be a father to the flock, it puts the entire theology of St. Paul's epistle to Ephesians upside down.

[Cronos]

Women are quite "capable" of being a priest. Certainly, they can present homilies and execute the sacraments, humanly speaking.

I agree whole-heartedly: reminds me of the Godfather where he says that all women will get into heaven, but we men have to work hard at it!

Sitetest: all jo kus was saying was that if someone looks at things superficially and says that all there is to make someone a priest is that that person should be able to present homilies and execute the sacraments, then women could be made priests -- even a 9 year old probably.

However, that bypasses the deeper meaning as Jo kus pointed out: you and Jo Kus and I all agree on the same thing, we're just pre-empting people who would say that by not making women priests, we are considering them not "holy" enough.