maybe i should giv a few details this time: why are catholics soooo sexist?

Question

a woman cant be pastor or pope. yada, yada, yada. is that enough for u catholics?

Answer 1

The Catechism of the Catholic Church states:

The Lord Jesus chose men to form the college of the twelve apostles, and the apostles did the same when they chose collaborators to succeed them in their ministry.

The Church recognizes herself to be bound by this choice made by the Lord himself. For this reason the ordination of women is not possible.

With love in Christ.

Answer 2

The Catholic Church is dominated by male authority figures that claim to have a direct connection to God. The Church also deify certain women in the Bible, and give Sainthood to a handful of others. That is supposed to pacify all the women into leading a life of servitude to men. The Catholic Church is very successful in most Third World Countries with this dogma, and has lost membership where the rights of women have been liberalized. I personally believe that most Christian religions are doomed to failure in the future because of their short sightedness in important social matters.

Answer 3

Only a baptized man validly receives sacred ordination. The Lord Jesus chose men to form the college of the twelve aspotles, and the apostles did the same when they chose collaborators to succeed them in their ministry. The college of bishops, with whom the priests are united in the priesthood, makes the college of the twelve an ever-present and ever-active reality until Christ's return. The Church recognizes herself to be bound by this choice made by the Lord himself. For this reason, the ordination of women is not possible.

Answer 4

I am a Catholic woman and I do not want to see female priests or God forbid a female Pope. Christ chose 12 male disciples to be his followers women followed and cared for him but he did not choose them. Women and men have different roles and ways to serve. Different yet equal is true. Women should be happy being women and men should prefer being men. Why can't we all just be happy with the way God made us?

Answer 5

the veneration of women the power they hold as nuns and their place in the catholic church is way more visible and recognizaed then most males in the catholic communities

pope means father so its impossible for a woman to fill that role

its a patriachal heirarchy men have more visible power or authoriy on the surface but in most of the churchest the women are called to do more although its unofficial

Answer 6

I can't be part of ANY Orthodox religion (like Muslim Fundamentalist, Catholic, Orthodox Jewish) because they don't treat women as equals.

I can't be part of any non orthodox religion, because they are all heretics.

If you want to be religious and not be contradictory, you can't add man made rules (like the Protestants) -- you have to accept what is believed to have come from God. Only the orthodox religions do this. The rest add man-made rules because it makes them feel more comfortable.

To me the choice is clear -- orthodoxy or no religion. No religion makes more sense to me.

Answer 7

You assume too much. Perhaps you could replace your assumptions with a solid understandinging of the Catholic Faith:

Women in the Priesthood
Gen. 3:15; Luke 1:26-55; John 19:26; Rev. 12:1- Mary is God's greatest creation, was the closest person to Jesus, and yet Jesus did not choose her to become a priest. God chose only men to be priests to reflect the complimentarity of the sexes. Just as women give forth natural life, men (as priests) give forth supernatural life. Women also participate in giving supernatural life by bringing forth priests from their wombs.

Judges 17:10; 18:19 – this is why fatherhood and priesthood have always been inseparable. “Stay with me, and be to me a father and a priest.” Women cannot be priests because women cannot be fathers.

Mark 16:9; Luke 7: 37-50; John 8:3-11 - Jesus allowed women to uniquely join in His mission, exalting them above cultural norms. His decision not to ordain women had nothing to do with culture. The Gospel writers are also clear that women participated in Jesus' ministry and, unlike men, never betrayed Jesus. Women have always been held with the highest regard in the Church (e.g., the Church's greatest saint and model of faith is a woman; the Church's constant teaching on the dignity of motherhood; the Church's understanding of humanity as being the Bride united to Christ, etc.).

Mark 14:17,20; Luke 22:14 - the language "the twelve" and "apostles" shows Jesus commissioned the Eucharistic priesthood by giving holy orders only to men.

Gen. 14:10; Heb. 5:6,10; 6:20; 7:15,17 - Jesus, the Son of God, is both priest and King after the priest-king Melchizedek. Jesus' priesthood embodies both Kingship and Sonship.

Gen. 22:9-13 - as foreshadowed, God chose our redemption to be secured by the sacrificial love that the Son gives to the Father.

Matt. 26:26; Mark 14:22; Luke 22:19 - because the priest acts in persona Christi in the offering to the Father, the priest cannot be a woman.

Mark 3:13 - Jesus selected the apostles "as He desired," according to His will, and not according to the demands of His culture. Because Jesus acted according to His will which was perfectly united to that of the Father, one cannot criticize Jesus' selection of men to be His priests without criticizing God.

John 20:22 - Jesus only breathed on the male apostles, the first bishops, giving them the authority to forgive and retain sins. In fact, the male priesthood of Christianity was a distinction from the priestesses of paganism that existed during these times. A female priesthood would be a reversion to non-Christian practices. The sacred tradition of a male priesthood has existed uncompromised in the Church for 2,000 years.

1 Cor. 14:34-35 - Paul says a woman is not permitted to preach the word of God in the Church. It has always been the tradition of the Church for the priest or deacon alone (an ordained male) to read and preach the Gospel.

1 Tim. 2:12 - Paul also says that a woman is not permitted to hold teaching authority in the Church. Can you imagine how much Mary, the Mother of God, would have been able to teach Christians about Jesus her Son in the Church? Yet, she was not permitted to hold such teaching authority in the Church.

Rom. 16:1-2 - while many Protestants point to this verse denounce the Church's tradition of a male priesthood, deaconesses, like Phoebe, were helpers to the priests (for example, preparing women for naked baptism so as to prevent scandal). But these helpers were never ordained.

Luke 2:36-37 - prophetesses, like Anna, were women who consecrated themselves to religious life, but were not ordained.

Isaiah 3:12 – Isaiah complains that the priests of ancient Israel were having their authority usurped by women, and this was at the height of Israel’s covenant apostasy.

Answer 8

I don't really know... But have you looked at the Islamic faith? How much are their women "allowed" to do? In reformed Judaism women can become rabbis. In the Protestant faiths, many allow women to preach.

Its hard to say why, other than that's the way its always been, and its part of the faith.

Answer 9

Most Catholics I know wouldn't have a problem with ordaining women to the priesthood.

Answer 10

Catholicism was organized in a time when women did not have the same roles and rights as men.