The World Needs Women Priests

[SkyWriting]

The concept of women priests is the church conforming to the world. We have our mandates and commands, if you want to be part of the church the body of Christ and follow Him you need to follow what scripture say.

Treat others in their calling just as you would want others to treat you in your calling.
Anyone who gets in your way for any reason can take a hike.

 

[SkyWriting]

Does the world need women priests?

Are woman called to be priests? Treat them with the respect you'd want others to offer you.

People ignore this passage and yet they offer no loopholes around it.

 

[SkyWriting]

Was John the Baptist a priest?

Was he a Baptist?

 

[SkyWriting]

Well, his father was a (Jewish) priest, so that would make John one too, but he wasn't a priest in the Christian sense.

Or was:
1 Peter 2:4-5 As you come to him, a living stone rejected by men but in the sight of God chosen and precious, 5 you yourselves like living stones are being built up as a spiritual house, to be a holy priesthood, to offer spiritual sacrifices acceptable to God through Jesus Christ.

 

[Love365]

Was he a Baptist?

He baptized Jesus.

 

[Albion]

Was he a Baptist?

He was a baptizer, that's right.

 

[bbbbbbb]

He was a baptizer, that's right.

I once knew a lady who, in complete sincerity, informed me that she belonged to the Nazarene church rather than the Baptist Church because John the Baptist was, after all, a Baptist, but Jesus Christ was a Nazarene.

 

[Love365]

Women priests would solve the priest shortage in two ways.

1. Women are 50% of the Catholic population.

2. Women priests could adopt children.
Some of those children would grow up to become priests.

 

[Strong in Him]

Women priests would solve the priest shortage in two ways.
2. Women priests could adopt children.
Some of those children would grow up to become priests.

Sorry, I'm all in favour of women being ordained, but that is a nonsensical argument and doesn't help.

A woman does not need to be a priest to adopt children - atheist women could adopt children, a few of whom might grow up to be priests. Or a priest might adopt children who grew up to be atheists.
Or non priested Christian women might adopt children, some of whom might be ordained when they grew up.

The issues of female ordination and adopting children are not related.

 

[bbbbbbb]

Sorry, I'm all in favour of women being ordained, but that is a nonsensical argument and doesn't help.

A woman does not need to be a priest to adopt children - atheist women could adopt children, a few of whom might grow up to be priests. Or a priest might adopt children who grew up to be atheists.
Or non priested Christian women might adopt children, some of whom might be ordained when they grew up.

The issues of female ordination and adopting children are not related.

Yes, this is a really odd argument. One might equally say that male priests could adopt children of whom 50% could become priests.

 

[Albion]

Women priests would solve the priest shortage in two ways.

1. Women are 50% of the Catholic population.

2. Women priests could adopt children.
Some of those children would grow up to become priests.

There are a dozen other ways to solve the priest shortage more easily, however.

 

[bbbbbbb]

There are a dozen other ways to solve the priest shortage more easily, however.

Only a dozen?

 

[Love365]

There are a dozen other ways to solve the priest shortage more easily, however.

The vow of celibacy is in the Catholic Church at nearly every level.
The monks, the nuns, the priests, the bishops, the cardinals.
Even the Pope can’t get married.

It’s not just baked into the cake.
It is the cake.

 

[bbbbbbb]

The vow of celibacy is in the Catholic Church at nearly every level.
The monks, the nuns, the priests, the bishops, the cardinals.
Even the Pope can’t get married.

It’s not just baked into the cake.
It is the cake.

Thank you!

 

[Albion]

The vow of celibacy is in the Catholic Church at nearly every level.
The monks, the nuns, the priests, the bishops, the cardinals.
Even the Pope can’t get married.

That's more or less correct, but as for the question being discussed, all those regulations/prohibitions could be eliminated by the church if it wanted to do so.

 

[bbbbbbb]

That's more or less correct, but as for the question being discussed, all those regulations/prohibitions could be eliminated by the church if it wanted to do so.

The problem then becomes a very thorny issue in regard to Tradition. However, as we both know, Tradition in the RCC can become quite flexible.

 

[Love365]

That's more or less correct, but as for the question being discussed, all those regulations/prohibitions could be eliminated by the church if it wanted to do so.

Women priests, bishops, and cardinals
are more compatible with the existing system.

 

[bbbbbbb]

Women priests, bishops, and cardinals
are more compatible with the existing system.

As are married priests, bishops, and cardinals. In fact, some of our Catholic friends here at CF are proud of the fact that certain small segments of the RCC permit marriage of priests. Thus, marriage is probably a more compatible possibility than the gender issue.

 

[Albion]

The problem then becomes a very thorny issue in regard to Tradition. However, as we both know, Tradition in the RCC can become quite flexible.

Celibacy for those positions is not a matter of Tradition in the Catholic Church because it's not a matter of doctrine.

And it could hardly be a matter of Tradition anyway since monks were not part of the Apostolic Church and the requirement for celibate priests and bishops didn't come until well into the Middle Ages.

 

[Albion]

Women priests, bishops, and cardinals
are more compatible with the existing system.

Not according to your church.