Activist group ordains women Catholic priests

I believe it is long past time for women to be priests. We need priests desperately. TIMES HAVE CHANGED. I know in my heart if Jesus were choosing the apostles today several would be women. This prejudice on the part of the church at this late date is a shame. I am a cradle catholic and love so many things avout the church. I watched the last pope's ceremonies when he became pope with a heavy heart. It is still a boy's club. What does this grave inequality say to all women especially the young ones? They are growing up in a world where women do everything else. Women serve as rabis priests and ministers in so many other faiths. I pray the pope will rethink this and do what I and so many others believe is the right thing.

Annette:

I agree that we 'need priests desperately', but how do you 'know in your heart' that Jesus would choose woman apostles if he were doing so today? Do you have a closer tie to God's mind than does the Holy See?
I have a question, why do you remain Catholic if you think that the Church is 'prejudice?' If you watched the selection of the Holy Father with disappointment, I don't believe you are a true Catholic; If you support these renegade women becoming ordained in a protestant Church, despite what the Vatican says on the issue, you are certainly not a Catholic.

Perhaps you would better serve God as you understand Him in another church all together.

Ordination of women is un-Biblical and it never happened in the Jewish priesthood. The Catholic priesthood evolved from the FACT that Jesus called only men to come follow him and be fishers of men. Yet Jesus called everyone to listen to his message. Why would Jesus, Who is God the Son and Second of the Blessed Trinity, change what was established in the Jewish traditions. God at any time could have made women priest and even his own Mother was more worthy of priesthood than any man could ever be, yet she did not chose to be a priest in her son's service, because she obyed God in his Laws and Traditions. Through Sacred Tradition when a man becomes a Catholic Priest he is actually married to the Church who is his bride, also the Church is the Bride of Christ. For Jesus Christ himself is the ONLY True High Priest. So a woman becoming a priest is like allowing for a lesbian marriage to exist. Like Genesis says about a man and a woman, the two become one, and a woman is subjected to her husband, so to is the church subject to Jesus Christ. Women not being allowed to be priest is more of a Devine law and not a Human man made law.
Given the Church is guided by the Holy Ghost it is wrong for Humanity to change any thing that the Church has established because we see it differently today. How would the 10 Commandments be today of they kept changing over the centuries because humanity thought it was time for a change to bring the 10 commandments up to date for each century? GOD's Commandments haven't changes it almost 6000 years so why should his church try to do differently if GOD himself does NOT want the change. These women are no better than Luficer himself, saying they know better than what GOd Commanded. PRAY FOR THE CATHOLIC CHURCH TO ONCE AGAIN BE A BEARER OF TRUTH AND JUSTICE to the world.

The hetrodoxial make three errors:(1) that in order to be equal they have to occupy the same positions,(2) that it is progress to ordain women and (3) the Church is a Divine institution not a political institution. In a political Institution they can say to be equal one has to occupy the same position, but NOT in the Church.
Really, the old pagan religions had women priests known as priestesses.
The women in question are not called by God to be Priests they are called by themselves to establish a liberal agenda with issues that abortion is not a mortal sin and inequality of women is a mortal sin. They are like everywhere else liberal women go, they spread confusion and division and it's always about themselves not the Church. A la Episcopal Church.

Sam, the Church is a divine institution, I think you meant to say that the liberals are treating it as a political institution when in reality it is a Divine one.

I am conflicted on this. While I believe that women can do and be all that they want in this country and that they should be able to do pursue whatever job they want, I feel that this is not it. There was a time when I thought there would be a day that we'd see women ordained as priests in the Catholic Church. I'm a feminist and it breaks my feminist heart to say that I hope to God that we never see a women "officially" ordained as priests in the Catholic Church.

Sure, most often women can do the same jobs as men, there are a few that are physically impossible for a woman to do, however, I accept the Church's position on the reasons why women cannot be ordained as priests. I would truly be uncomfortable seeing, hearing a woman celebrate the Mass. There is something that brings me comfort every Sunday and every time I go to Mass when I see a man celebrating Mass.

We definitely need priests, but I think God will take care of His Church. I think in time we'll see a surge in vocations to the priesthood again. I think young Catholics are finding their Catholic identity and discovering that they just may have a vocation to the priesthood or religious life. I'm hopeful. I'd rather have fewer but good, solid priests than many. I don't want to see the Catholic Church fall apart because of women's ordination. It's sad watching the Anglicans struggle over the issue now. Thing is, the ones wanting to flock to Rome now, should have left when they first started ordaining women to the priesthood in the 70s.

Ah, the Bible. The book written and edited by men. If there were women disciples, and some historians believe there were, would they have told us? I think not.

No matter the cost of the Vatican's excommunication, I say it is about time that women be allowed to serve as priests. My reasons are 1:) there is an extreme shortage of priests within the Church, 2:) I find nothing in the teachings of Jesus himself prohiting the ordination of women or even suggesting that they may not serve in the same capacity as men. The fact that the all of the so-called original disciples were men does not show Jesus intent that women be excluded. In reality there were many women who, along with the original 12, dedicated their lives, bodies and souls, to the service of spreading the Gospel. 3:) If a case can be made for the prohibition of women priests, it is due entirely to the teaching of Paul. Most of the theology and doctrine of the Christian Church is due to the teachings of Paul than they are of Jesus. Although I am a Roman Catholic, I think the Church has been chauvinistic long enough.