catholics! why don't you all allow women to become priests or popes??

Question

why don't you all allow women to become priests or popes??

i mean there were FEMALE prophets.

Queen Esther was used by God mightily as a leader who speaks in front of the king!

Mary was used to conceived the Son of God!!!! she was the spiritual PARENT of Jesus!

even the prostitute was used as a spy for ISrael!

even Mary Magdelene could go near to Jesus Himself to worship Him face to face!

so what make you catholics think and decree that women cannot be priests and popes!?!?

are you "HOLIER" than Christ Himself who allowed Mary to go near Him and worship Him?

i wan catholics to tell me!

WHY WHY WHY! or is it just a power hungry based religion?

excuse me Yeow Ten

there was Queen Esther who spoke in front of the king. she ultimately saved a whole generation of Jews.

we know that Jesus Himself stands in defense of us too.

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

Check my last answer ..... do some research too .....

Moreover, if you check carefully, Mary Magdelene was NOT EVEN classified as J.C. Disciple ...... do the logic ..... if the man himself does not accept a woman as a disciple, what is the rational behind it?

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Halo .... I am just telling you the truth .... J.C. DID NOT RECONIGISE MARY MAGDELENE AS HIS DISCIPLE .... .which part of the above you do not understand.

Who is Queen Esther what she does bear no consequences to the catholics, she is before the birth of christs. Catholics are christians, not Judaism, just in case you do not know, catholics follows J.C. and things J.C. does not do, chances are most conservative catholics will not want to do too ..... but there ARE female priests ......

You should perhaps use Joan of Arc and her piety to god and died at a young age of 19 as a better example ......

Read this for your knowledge ....

http://www.romancatholicwomenpriests.org/

Now Which part of the word Christian you do not understand?

Answer 3

The answer is very simple: Jesus believed women were equal and entitled to the same spiritual leadership as men. he founded the Nazarenes, also known as the Gnostics.
See:
http://one-faith-of-god.org/new_testament/apocrypha/nazarenes/nazarenes_0010.htm

Paul of Tarsus and the Sadducee Jewish High Priests formed the parasitic religion of christianity including the false scriptures listed as the "Bible", especially the New Testament. Paul hated women, hated them with a passion and considered them worse than slaves and domestic animals.
See:
http://one-faith-of-god.org/new_testament/apocrypha/founders_christianity/founders_christianity_0010.htm

So when Catholic apologists, pr agents and spin doctors say Jesus chose men and so the church follows his tradition, it is really Paul they follow.

And when christians quote the Bible that only men were the founders of christianity, they refuse to acknowledge the true teachings of Jesus in the gnostic texts and his demand that women be treated equally in all matters.

WWJD? What would Jesus Do?
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+ Jesus has been continually mis-represented thanks to Paul of Tarsus for 2000 years.

+ He would hope that people who believe in him, would listen to his plea for women to be treated as equal and with respect in all matters rather than just follow whatever they are told by a religious organization with vested interests.

+ Above all that people who falsely claim to be speaking in his name stop.

Answer 4

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 the man (the royal priest) gives natural life to the woman in the marital covenant, the ministerial priest gives supernatural life in the New Covenant sacraments.

Judges 17:10; 18:19 – fatherhood and priesthood are synonymous terms. Micah says, “Stay with me, and be to me a father and a priest.” Fathers/priests give life, and mothers receive and nurture life. This reflects God our Father who gives the life of grace through the Priesthood of His Divine Son, and Mother Church who receives the life of grace and nourishes her children. In summary, 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 5

I suggest you go back and read the letters from Paul.

He was pretty specific on this. We do not claim to be holier than Jesus. Rather, we follow what was specified in the Bible, and Paul was quite clear on this point.

So just suck it up and deal with it: who are you to contradict the Bible?

Also, please work on your grammar: it's atrocious.

Answer 6

You already asked this.

Answer 7

We obey the Bible. Shoot we wrote the bible.

Answer 8

http://catholic.com/library/Women_and_the_Priesthood.asp