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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Content: Why Can't the Church Ordain Women? WHY CAN'T THE CHURCH ORDAIN WOMEN? "Only a baptized man (vir) validly receives sacred ordination." The Lord Jesus chose men (viri) 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. ( 1)
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".