[NYer]

Kenneth D. Whitehead is a former career diplomat who served in Rome and the Middle East and as the chief of the Arabic Service of the Voice of America. For eight years he served as executive vice president of Catholics United for the Faith. He also served as a United States Assistant Secretary of Education during the Reagan Administration. His most recent book is Affirming Religious Freedom: How Vatican Council II Developed the Church’s Teaching to Meet Today’s Needs (St. Paul’s, 2010).

[NYer]

They just won’t throw in the towel, will they.

[Vaquero]

there are other churches, the Church of England for instance, that will gladly ordain them.

The Catholic Church says no deal, so go elsewhere if you don’t like it....

[yldstrk]

Lesbians as ordained, great

[yldstrk]

“Still, Jesus did not include any of them in the special group of apostles that he appointed, not even his mother, the Blessed Virgin Mary, the human being whom the Church exalts above all others. Jesus seems to have believed that women and men, although equal in their human dignity, had somewhat different roles in the family and in society”

Uh dumb argument, what about Mary Magdalen? Yeah, she was pretty much an apostle. Not that I think women should be ordained, but don’t use stupid arguments to shore up your position.

[E. Pluribus Unum]

They should found their own religion.

That way they can do anything they want.

[SumProVita]

We CATHOLIC women don’t want to be ordained.

We prefer the will of the Father.

[Nemoque]

The Scriptures make it perfectly clear that women were NEVER priests, nor did Jesus choose to call them into the apostolic ministry, as re-presenters of Jesus, the man. All the arguments FOR women's ordination are based upon contemporary views of justice and equality, not theological or biblical foundations. The provocative studies have to do with not whatthe Scriptures state, but rather on why God established a male only priesthood. The issue comes down to theology proper and the very nature of God Himself. Those that want to ordain women see the Holy Minstry in terms of functionality rather than a divinely instituted ministry connected with the essence of God.

[RobbyS]

Pointing to the Protestant churches is profoundly misleading. For one thing, the evangelicals reject the very idea of a sacerdotal priesthood, an order of Christians separate and distinct from others. Their ministers are just that: functionaries, deriving their authority from the congregations.

[onedoug]

Leftist claptrap.

From a Noachide trained in Catholicism from his youth.