Why are women not alowed leadership positions in the Catholic Church?

Question

What is the Catholic Church's reasoning for not allowing women to be priest, bishops, cardinals, etc ? Are there fewer nuns now because of the limited roles women are allowed to pursue?

Why can the church change some its interpretations and not others. Were the past interpretations incorrect and if so could there stance on women be incorrect?

Are women less like Jesus because they are not men?

Answer 1

The Catechism of the Catholic Church currently 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

It has to do with the Church not having the authority to ordain women. It's like marriage: the Church is the bride and the priest is the bridegroom, just like the Church is the bride to Christ and He is the bridegroom. A priest operates in persona Christi - the person of Christ - when he uses his priestly duties. Through the Holy Spirit, the priest becomes like an instrument for Jesus, becoming the bridegroom for us, the Church (the bride). If a woman tried to fill that role, it would be like the bride with the bride, which would be homosexual.

I hope this isn't confusing but it's the best way I know how to explain it. The Church simply does not have the authority to ordain women. Today that's considered a very unpopular stance, since women occupy nearly every position that men do, but when it comes to the priesthood, it requires a man. Always have, always will.

God bless.

Answer 3

Women are not priests because the Apostles chosen by Jesus were not women. The Church is following the example of Jesus by not allowing women to be priests. If there are fewer nuns now it would not be because of limited roles. If the roles are limited to just being a nun wouldn't that cause an increase in the number of nuns?

God bless,
Stanbo

Answer 4

The stance is women can not hold the special priesthood set aside for those with a vocation.

Mary, Christ's mother was available for him to pick if he wanted women to hold that role.

Christ established the priesthood, Catholics didn't. We just follow along what He correctly established.

Why not change? Why change is really the question. There are fewer nuns? Really? Please cite your source because ALL sources state otherwise; an explosion of novices and those make vows of religious life.

Answer 5

Actually in the Catholic newspaper in my area there was a report that there are more novices--future nuns entering the convents during this past year.
The women in the Catholic Church may not hold the Heirachy positions, but we are not unheard......
A friend of mine who is a priest told me once when he wants something done he goes to the women, because we are the force behind the Church.....
Catholic women are not subserviant.....

Answer 6

Because the Catholic Church is an archaic dinosaur of an institution and men made the rules. The best thing we can do for the Catholic Church is to leave it alone and let it wither on the vine and become extinct.

Answer 7

First you may desire to comprehend that the Catholic Church is the achievement of the previous regulation (i.e. the Jewish faith). The Jews strove to maintain the previous Covenant yet whilst Jesus got here He wide-unfold the recent Covenant which fulfilled the previous one. 2nd you may desire to comprehend that there won't have the ability to be any actual Jews from now on because of fact area of the responsibilities which made one a real Jew grew to become into to bypass to the temple as quickly as a 365 days and supply a sacrifice of atonement. because of fact the temple is destroyed that makes it somewhat complicated. Thirdly you may desire to comprehend that in the process spite of the shown fact that there have been persons withing the Catholic Church who have been and regrettably are against Jews, the Church never grew to become into. The historic occasion that somebody before referred such because of fact the inquisition have been a political circulate not religious. Isabella and Ferdinand wide-unfold the inquisition b/c they concept the Jews have been working with the Muslims, who have been attempting to invade Europe on the time, to infiltrate and weaken Spain's defenses. Such subject grew to become into greater suitable whilst some Jews who faked a conversions to Catholicism abducted and crucified a youthful Catholic boy and cut back out his coronary heart mutually as he grew to become into nonetheless living in mockery of crucifixion of Christ. the human beings have been in panic and riots broke out each "converso" grew to become into being attacked. The inquisition grew to become into wide-unfold to root out people who weren't dependable to Spain to not break any and each Jew. finally, Jesus, the only Son of God, who has 2 finished natures, one God and one guy, yet remains basically one person, grew to become right into a training and dedicated Jew. he's the pinnacle of the Catholic Church. He did set up the Catholic Church. the only reason Catholics are actually not all additionally training Jews is because of fact the Messiah has come. God meant for all Jews to persist with the Messiah into the recent Covenant yet many might desire to not comprehend that Christ fulfilled all the prophesies of previous and additionally they did not persist with him. So now Jews right now are waiting around for a Messiah that has already come.

Answer 8

Catholic apologists, spin doctors and PR merchants will tell you it is because Jesus was:
(a) celibate, and
(b) all the apostles were male.

Of course, even in the official Catholic scriptures, there is heaps of circumstantial evidence to suggest that Mary, Martha, Mary Magdalene and the mother of Jesus were active members of the Nazarene community around Jesus, at least on equal status with the apostles.

Now, if we briefly step outside of the Paul of Tarsus Bubble of history and consider the original gospels of the apostles, such as Thomas, we see that women were not only considered equal, but many considered Mary Magdalene to be at least as important in status as the brothers and sisters of Jesus.

See:
http://one-faith-of-god.org/new_testament/apocrypha/nazarenes/nazarenes_0010.htm

The real and only reason the Catholic Church continues to suppress women and consider them subordinate is because its founder, Paul of Tarsus hated women and considered them worse than slaves.

So all the excuses in the world, all the bamboozling words, just hide this simple fact.

By the way, its also why the Catholic Church has been behind the murder of millions of women over the centuries through mock witch trials to keep them down.

Answer 9

In Catholicism women were born as siners because of Eve
So the reason is the believers of Catholicism themselves because of some stupid myth

Answer 10

I am not Catholic, but I am guessing they follow this scripture "Let your women keep silence in the churches: for it is not permitted unto them to speak.... 1 Corinthians 14:34
I am Baptist and this is our belief.