do you think that is right for females to become cathlic priests?

Question

i read in a newspaper that females are self-proclaiming themselfs cathlic preists and that they are kicked out of the cathlic church.

ok sorry about spelling. not everyone is good at spelling

Answer 1

Actually, Marcus and Nowhere Man, Scripture is contradictory on the subject of women in the priesthood.

For example, in the early Church, Paul designated only two church offices, Biship and Deacon. Deacons encompass what we know today as Priest, Minister, or Pastor.

That's why his letter to Romans is so intriguing. Towards the end of Romans he expects his audience to welcome Phoebe who is a DEACON of the church, and do what she requests of them. Now if women are not supposed to be in authority, why is a woman holding church office, and why is Paul expecting the Romans to do as she requests? Paul also goes on to name other women in the church who also hold positions of responsibility such as Junia, positions that are not confined to what would later be traditional women's roles such as those of nuns. Further, Mary, the mother of John Mark led a congregation in the scriptures.

And, there is sufficient archeological evidence to support that the original church had women as priests and Bishops. Artimedora in Egypt, Epikto on the Greek island of Thera, and Bishop Theodora.

Finally, there are abundant church records demonstrating that women were allowed to lead congregations throughout Christendom all the way until at least the 10th Century.

So, despite what some might believe, there is abundant scriptural and historical evidence to demonstrate that women were church leaders in worship.

Answer 2

It's true that not everyone is good at spelling, but everyone who owns a computer CAN learn how to use a spell checker function.
As far as women priests in the Catholic Church are concerned, well, I'm not Catholic, but I do know enough about Catholicism that I can say that becoming a priest in the Catholic Church is viewed as an act of surrender of one's own self, and will, and is to be a life of obedience to the Church. However, there's too much work to be done, to stay in the Catholic Church and challenge the status quo. If a woman feels strongly enough that God is calling her to be a priest, then He will certainly make a way, and it may not be in the Catholic Church.

Answer 3

You know something I remember the 1970s and the women right movement when I was a little kids and now look at the world today ,men have left their's family women is raising their's children along and especially the black men are in prisons they was raise with out a father,and the Young ladies do not know how to connect with a man ,if they do they get mentally abuse or phyical abuse ,no I don't think females should be Priests and I am a female

Answer 4

I believe woman should be able to become priests and priest should be able to marry. The catholic religion is still in many ways still in the dark ages. I am not saying that they should forgo tradition and cave into the pressures of today. But they at least have to admit that the bible was written at a time when women were just possessions and in many ways equal to the cattle.

I am catholic and because I am catholic it doesn't mean I have to believe that we are only put into this world to serve men.

I pray for the day that the pope will recognize this one thing and help change this atrocity so that one day we will truly be equal under God as I believe God has intended.

Answer 5

All the arguments for the male priesthood are specious. A female is as capable of representing Christ liturgically -- and in every other way -- as a male. The only reason the Catholics and Orthodox still have an all-male priesthood is evident when you read Patristic sources. They believed women were inferior to men, irrational, and unclean. Those were the original arguments. Time for a bit of housecleaning... the Reformation wins on this point, I'm afraid.

Answer 6

As a Christian who has more faith in the Bible than in Catholic tradition I find the case for singleness and maleness as the only ways to be a church leader not to be how the early church did it. NIV Romans 16:7 Greet Andronicus and Junias, my relatives who have been in prison with me. They are outstanding among the apostles, and they were in Christ before I was. Junias was a woman's name and yet called by Paul as an Apostle. Peter the "first pope" had his Mother in law healed by Jesus, NIV Matthew 8:14 When Jesus came into Peter's house, he saw Peter's mother-in-law lying in bed with a fever. I don't know how you can have a mother-in-law without being married.
The worst part is that this doctrine has forced the Catholic Church into a corner that the Bible does not make necessary. In the current crises the church is going through how much of it could have been prevented if men who wanted to both dedicate their whole lives to God and yet had strong sexual desires could have just gotten married to women who wanted to dedicate their lives to God also. Strong desires are easier to fight when there is a legitimate outlet.

Answer 7

I see nothing wrong with someone self-proclaiming themselfs as

"cathlic preists". It's not like the Catholics will care.

Answer 8

I think all religions need to be more inclusive of women at all levels. If any religion bars women from advancing, that religion is FALSE. We need all the priestesses we can get. I can only hope that the next step will be bringing back the sacred hiero gamos ritual that was the original sacrament of the Christian church where the divinity of the male and of the female were united as One.

Answer 9

It depends on whether or not a woman wishes to promote a religion based on a bible that in itself promotes the rape, pillage and murder of innocent women under the edicts of 'God'.

(Judges 21:10-24 NLT)
(Numbers 31:7-18 NLT)
(Deuteronomy 20:10-14)
(Deuteronomy 22:28-29 NAB)
(Deuteronomy 22:23-24 NAB)
(2 Samuel 12:11-14 NAB)
(Deuteronomy 21:10-14 NAB)
(Judges 5:30 NAB)
(Exodus 21:7-11 NLT)
(Zechariah 14:1-2 NAB)

Read the passages yourself from the "Good" book. I think that any woman who wishes to be a Catholic priest should also read these passages to understand what the 'word of the Lord' actually says about women in the bible.

I think if a woman is comfortable with teaching brutally misogynistic and archaic ideas,...who knows...maybe it's just right for her.

Answer 10

I hope the self-proclaiming action will convince the dictatorial oligarchic leadership of Catholicism to revise their position.
Pessimism is a must. Vatican recognized that Galileo could eventually be right some four hundred years after having classified him a criminal heretic.