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To: NYer

Seems like the women could seek out the many modern Protestant Christian religions that worship a Savior that welcomes women as human beings of equal capacity and value to males and that welcomes women to the priesthood. Run to the Christ with the open arms.


18 posted on 07/30/2011 10:57:07 AM PDT by marsh2
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To: marsh2
"...welcomes women as human beings of equal capacity and value to males.."

The Catholic Church considers laypeople and priests, women and men, adults and children, born and unborn, to be fundamentally equal in their human dignity. Ordaining some adult men as deacons, priests or bishops does not mark them as fundamentally superior, as you, perhaps, assume.

That mistaken assumption comes from seeing the priesthood as a status thing. And it's almost an inevitable mistake in a society where so many are concerned about status --- who can claim immunity from this tendency? --- and where so few are interested in being poor, chaste, and obedient.

Many would roll their eyes at this, which, of course, illustrates what I mean.

Yet the really important and really interesting people in Catholicism are not the priests, nor the popes, but the saints.

29 posted on 07/30/2011 12:32:41 PM PDT by Mrs. Don-o ("There is only one tragedy in life: not to have been a saint." - Leon Bloy)
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To: marsh2

Just because men and women fill different roles doesn’t mean that women are “less valued”.


45 posted on 07/30/2011 2:14:36 PM PDT by Politicalmom ("President Fox's vision for an open border is a vision I embrace"- Rick Perry)
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To: marsh2; Pollster1; NYer; Salvation

I am an Evangelical and I have serious issues with women as ministers and priests. It isn’t biblical.

Women in other areas of ministry I have no problem with (I am female and work in counter cult ministries) but women should be constrained to axillary ministerial functions (like nuns in the Catholic church) rather than being head of congregations.

My inlaws attend a church with a woman ‘pastor’ and while I like her, and her sermons, when we attend with them, I think of it more as Sunday School rather than see her as a ‘pastor’. It would be unbiblical for me to submit myself to a woman pastor so I will not do it.


47 posted on 07/30/2011 2:26:22 PM PDT by reaganaut ( "I once was lost, but now am found; was blind but now I see")
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