But it is so applicable -- living a chaste and holy life as a priest, just as couples are expected to live a holy and dedicated life.
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From book by the same name by Pope John Paul II.
The ordination of women was the first big issue to split the American Episcopal Church (revision of the prayer book and refusal to convict a couple of bishops of heresy were the other main ones). It has also created problems in England.
The traditional/orthodox view in the Anglican church is identical to the Catholic view, and for the same reasons. The Anglican church traditionally has held itself to be in the Apostolic Succession and part of the Catholic Church. Although Catholics disagreed (see Apostolicae Curae, this remains the orthodox position.
I'm a Presbyterian-becoming-an-Anglican, so I hope you don't mind if I pipe in.
I wholly agree with the article--and other than C. S. Lewis's (old) essay "Preistesses in the Church"(which really is superb) it's an aspect of the "women's issue" I've never seen addressed by conservative Protestants. Even in classical Protestant circles (though of course more in more liturgical churches) the mediator-function of a minister is acknowleged, if sometimes begrudgingly (from a priesthood-of -all-believers perspective). Ancient Israel was referred to as a "kingdom of priests" and yet they had formal priests, too, so I see no reason why--while affirming no two classes of people (those with a calling and those without...ALL have a calling, to do what God wants you to do)--the go-between nature of clergy cannot be recognized--and why a woman should not be in such a position over the whole Church (in St. Paul's words "I do not permit a woman to teach or have authority over a man" (I Tim. 2:12))
Naturally, coming from the Presbyterian/evangelical Anglican perspective, I'll put scripture first, over reason (found in this article) and tradition, though, being more Anglican, I'll not neglect as 2nd and 3rd, reasonable and traditional arguments as well.
You'd be surprised by the number of thoughtful conservative evangelical Reformed theological types (I'm a seminarian in a conservative Presbyterian school) who firmly believe in male leadership in the Church. I'd say among the under 35 crowd, it is largely not even a major issue--so deep is the conviction on it. Funny how solid reason, true tradition, and scriptural exegesis can end in the same place, isn't it my Roman Catholic brethren?