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The greatest in the Kingdom of Heaven is not the ministers, but the saints; and -excluding the humanity of Christ- the highest of creatures in honor and sanctity, the Virgin Mary, was not clothed by God of any priestly character. The Virgin Mary is more important than the apostles and the bishops and deacons and priests, giving her a divine and glorious power, however, on earth the powers of the woman are null, eclipsed by the ego of man and male ignorance. The arguments about women priests have been repeated unchanged for centuries and are exposed in three documents of identical content, to which the bishops appeal every time that the critical Christian movements insist on claiming the priesthood for women: the declaration of the Congregation

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