Should women be priests

Answer 1

women should be priest because they are just life other people. We live in a world were men can do anything, but women can't?

Answer 2

Yes, in Anglican/Episcopal churches and other Protestant churches with apostolic succession, they can be. In Roman Catholicism and Eastern Orthodoxy they cannot currently.
*Of course man and woman are equal, it does not matter what type of person you are you can be female and male.

Answer 3

Some Catholics believe they should. Many believe they should not. The hierarchy of the Church has strongly opposed any suggestion that women should be ordained.

Answer

In the Anglican community, both High Church (Catholic) and low church, there are already women priests. In the American Episcopal Church (Anglican), there are also women bishops.

This presents many challenges; for years, the Catholic Church and a portion of the Anglican Church have worked in earnest to bring themselves closer together, even towards the goal of inter-ecumenism where Catholics may share the Eucharist (Holy Communion), in an Anglican Church and vice versa.

That the american Episcopal (Anglican) Church has been quite progressive in its policies, such as the ordination of women Bishops and the ordination of Homosexual Bishops is axiomatic. However, these actions have had profound repercussions, particularly among the Anglo/Catholic communities in Latin America, Africa, and certain areas of Europe. Rather than drawing people closer, it has created a vast schism to a point where the divide now appears even greater than ever.

A large number of Anglican Priests ask, if they're bound by their Holy Orders and the Scriptures, how can they be compelled to either ignore or pick and choose elements for adherence and elements to ignore. Consequently, Anglican Priests have written to the Archbishop asking to be excluded from Episcopal oversight (governance) by women, or from being compelled to concelebrate (share) the Holy Eucharist together.

Their justification is clearly centred upon the Scriptures. Following 1 Timothy 3:1-2. Often these justifications are packaged with the argument over homosexuality where Leviticus 18:22 and 20:13 and Romans 1:26-27 are invoked.

The debates (and arguments) continue, often becoming highly emotive in both the Catholic and Anglican Church, and doesn't appear to being anywhere near a clear resolution, except through those denominations who have chosen, whether rightly or wrongly, to substantially homogenise, interpret, and occasionally, wholly ignore the Scriptural foundations.

Answer 4

There aren't many issues within apologetics that require as much sensitivity as this one. In a culture where opening the door for a woman can be seen as an act of misogyny, it's no surprise that male-only ordination strikes some as sexist on the Church's behalf.

It can't be denied that there are women who could be more moving orators than some priests and provide more consolation within the confessional. But the debate over ordination is not over who could be a better priest but over who could be a priest at all.

So, if a woman's abilities are not in question, what's keeping the Church from ordaining her? For one, it should be noted that Jesus did not ordain any women. He selected all of his apostles, and none were women.

Some say that he was bound by the cultural norms of his era to suppress the roles of women, but no one has been able to prove that this was his motive. Furthermore, this accuses Jesus of sexism and it paints an inaccurate portrait of Christ, who had no qualms about shattering the cultural norms regarding interaction with women (Matt. 9:20; Luke 7:37; John 4:27). The idea of priestesses was not unknown to him, since it was a common practice in religions of his time and culture, though not Judaism. (If Jesus had wanted women as priestesses, he would have had the ideal candidate in Mary. Here was a woman who could have spoken the words of consecration literally: "This is my body. This is my blood.")

There were other roles that Christ had in mind for women. For example, they played a key role in the spread of the Gospel, being the first to spread the news of the risen Christ. They were also allowed to pray and prophecy in church (1 Cor. 11:1-16), but they were not to assume the function of teaching in the Christian assembly (1Cor. 14:34-38; 1 Tim. 2:1-14), which was restricted to the clergy.

Two thousand years later, no one-including the pope-has the authority to change the designs of the Church that Christ instituted. Specifically, the Church is unable to change the substance of a sacrament. For example, a person cannot be baptized in wine, nor may a substance other than bread be used for the consecration at Mass. If invalid matter is used, then the sacrament does not take place. Likewise, since the priest acts in the person of Christ, the Church has no authority to confer the sacrament on those who are unable to represent the male Jesus Christ.

Answer 5

The reason for this is because the Orthodox Church follows the teachings of Jesus Christ, The Bible and the practices of the Holy Apostles. When Jesus chose people for His Ministry on earth, He called twelve male disciples to go and preach to the whole world. Then they chose another 70 male disciples, and so on for over 2,000 years. This is also in keeping with the Old Testament practice of choosing men to become priests of the Temple and rabbis of synagogues.

So from this we conclude that Christ has called certain men (but not all men) to become His priests. He could have chosen women, such as His own mother Mary, or Mary Magdalene, but did not. We are in no position to say that Christ was wrong in doing this, because Christ is God, and therefore He is without sin and makes no mistakes.

This does not in any way mean that women are inferior to men. On the contrary, women were given the same possibility of salvation as men for the first time in history, by Jesus Christ. Baptism in Christ now enables both males and females to be equally saved (Galatians 3:27-28). Christ also broke many of the social Jewish customs of that time, for example, by speaking with the Samaritan woman at the well, which was not permitted for any Jew to do. So Christ elevated women to the same status as men, but maintained their different roles in society. In other words, women are seen as equal, but having different roles.

Answer 6

Because Jesus did not give the Church the authority to ordain women.

Answer 7

in some religions no it kind of matters in the church or religion, i want to become a minster to, in my religion or Church you can. Ask your pastor.

Answer 8

no