Title: Why Can't the Church Ordain Women?
Headings: WHY CAN'T THE CHURCH ORDAIN WOMEN?
WHY CAN'T THE CHURCH ORDAIN WOMEN?
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The fact that the Catholic Church does not ordain women to the ministerial priesthood is no secret. In fact of all the Church's policies it is one of the most widely criticized! Yet the actual reason why the Church confers the Sacrament of Holy Orders only on men is less well known. Is Sexism the Reason? One usually hears the charge that this policy arises from a deeply entrenched "sexism". Yet our Faith is not sexist! The Catholic Church teaches that women are equal to men in human dignity, capacity for salvation and potential for spiritual growth and holiness - not bad for a "patriarchal" religion. She also teaches that the highest creature is the Blessed Virgin Mary - a woman! It is difficult to find "sexism" in such doctrines. Though a few medieval writers tried to argue against women priests on the basis of an allegedly "inferiority" or "state of subjection" to man, this was only their personal opinion, not the Church's official dogma.