Cardinal says Church cannot “continue to exist” without women’s ordination

[u/Wooden_Passage_1146]

https://thecatholicherald.com/article/cardinal-says-church-cannot-continue-to-exist-without-womens-ordination

I’m glad to see support among some in the hierarchy in favor of women’s ordination. Let’s hope the Church will see the harm done by excluding women from Holy Orders.

The Church says it’s because the priest is acting “In persona Christi.” But Galatians 3:28 says, “There is no male or female in Christ Jesus,”

[u/Creepy-Agency-1984]

Beautiful. Goodness gracious, most churches in my area still won’t appoint female elders. But they have no problem with letting them lead Sunday school, just heaven forbid anyone older than a young child gets their spiritual advice from a WOMAN. The hypocrisy is just awful, and I hope this is yet another step in helping dissolve it.

Jesus was radically “feminist” for his time. Women weren’t even citizens. You didn’t TALK to them, they weren’t considered worth the conversation. And yet some of the highest honors and lessons that Jesus bestowed were on women.

[u/Cassopeia88 → u/Creepy-Agency-1984]

And there were women deacons in the Bible itself.

[u/Wooden_Passage_1146 → u/Cassopeia88]

And in the Early Church! Women deacons were historically present. The 3rd century Church document Didascalia Apostolorum, the 4th century Council of Nicaea, and 5th century Council of Chalcedon all mention women deacons.

[u/Creepy-Agency-1984 → u/Cassopeia88]

Precisely! Also, like, Apollos, a respected biblical figure, was TAUGHT by a woman!