Catholic Church Views Of Ordaining Women

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CATHOLIC CHURCH VIEWS OF ORDAINING WOMEN

Sexism in the Catholic Church

Abstract

The purpose of this brief is to provide you with an overview of how the Catholic Church view women being ordained in the church. The views are based on the traditional and doctrinal references that the Catholic religion is based on. The views are from various resources such as the Roman Catholic Church in the Vatican, Pope John Paul II, and the newly elected Pope Benedict XVI. The views described in this brief are based on the traditions of old and their refusal to change the traditions to fit for the twentieth century.

SEXISM IN THE CATHOLIC CHURCH

Sexism in the Catholic Church can be described in various ways. Sexism in the Catholic Church can be described as favoritism toward gender, Slavery, Ethnicity, even age. The dictionary term for sexism is defined as “discrimination against people on the basis of sex; discrimination against, and prejudice stereotyping of women.”(Webster New World Dictionary, 1988)

The focus of this paper will deal with the issue of women in the Catholic Church not being able to have a ministerial role in the church. The catholic doctrine belief is based on the fact Jesus Christ only chose men to be his disciples and apostles. Being that the catholic beliefs are doctrine and tradition this is the base for their reason to keep women from becoming ordain ministers as well as priest. The Roman Catholic Church and the Pope refuses to ordain women based on these facts. The Church always followed this example of Christ, both in the apostolic times and even now in the twentieth century.

A whole ideology was evolved very early in the European history to justify the suppression of women. Christianity was g...

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Ann Pezullo and Donna Quinn

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Jani Roberts

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Victoria Newfeldt and David B. Guralnik

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Did Christ rule out women priests? The Catholic Church does not admit women to Sacred Orders.

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