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?

Content: This is my body. This is my blood.”) There were other roles that Christ had in mind for women. For example, they played a key role in the spread of the Gospel, being the first to spread the news of the risen Christ. They were also allowed to pray and prophesy in church (1 Cor. 11:1–16), but they were not to assume the function of teaching in the Christian assembly (1Cor. 14:34–38; 1 Tim. 2:1–14), which was restricted to the clergy. Two thousand years later, no one—including the pope—has the authority to change the designs of the Church that Christ instituted.