Title: Why Can't Women Be Priests? | Catholic Answers
Headings: Why Can’t Women Be Priests?
Why Can’t Women Be Priests?
2. Wouldn’t ordaining women take care of the vocations crisis?
4. Didn’t the early Christians ordain women?
5. But isn’t it possible that the Church could come around on this issue?

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Why Can’t Women Be Priests? Jason Evert • 1/1/2002
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1. Why doesn’t the Church allow women to be priests? I know plenty of women who could give a more moving homily and be more understanding in the confessional. There aren’t many issues within apologetics that require as much sensitivity as this one. In a culture where opening the door for a woman can be seen as an act of misogyny, it’s no surprise that male-only ordination strikes some as sexist on the Church’s behalf. It can’t be denied that there are women who could be more moving orators than some priests and provide more consolation within the confessional. But the debate over ordination is not over who could be a better priest but over who could be a priest at all. So, if a woman’s abilities are not in question, what’s keeping the Church from ordaining her?