Why Can't Women Be Ordained in the Catholic Church?

[@veronika4606]

Mother Theresa said to this topic: "Mary was the most holy person on earth and no one would have been more worthy of being a priest than her. But nevertheless Jesus didn't make her a priest because she had another assignment: Being the mother of the church." God has another assignment for women which does not mean, that this is any less important! Holy Edith Stein said:"If you manage to become a bride of Jesus you don't have the wish to become a priest any longer" which refers to the mystical way of becoming a bride of the Lord which is a way for women. God has great plans for women as well which are equally important as the tasks for men.

[@TheRennDawg]

Mary was not holy.

[@GratiaPrima_]

Kiwi Ananas that’s beautiful!

[@JM-740]

Mathew Renner she never sinned and was saved from sin. Why do you speak Ill of your spiritual mother?

[@dansedevie123]

@@TheRennDawg But the angel Gabriel said she was "full of grace".

[@donjon2023]

Jess I. Most people don’t understand that statement

[@miliniumo147]

Interesting thing a Priest once told me. Back in the day, when there were a lot of nuns, most church's not only had a Father (Priest), but also a Mother (the leader of a group of nuns). The Mother was not only in charge of a group of nuns, but she helped the Father with a number of duties and helped run the church. Unfortunately, there aren't many nuns nowadays, so we don't see the influences of a Mother in most churches. (Interesting how the church was set up as the House of God and has Fathers, Mothers, Brothers, and Sisters.)

[@aje2366]

I've actually heard of that! I think the exact position is called "Mother Superior". Pretty powerful title.

[@aje2366]

@@TheSaraManal It is a modern misconception that the lack of Nuns is because of the lack of respect for them as there is also a 'shortage' of Priests in the West as well. (Which I can only imagine reflects our culture). The Church has always held them in high regard and so have we. They are not consecrated Priests, they are special Lay people who have taken an Oath to God and the Church, and they do not need to serve every function of a Priest to be respected. Because respect and power is not the goal of becoming a Nun, nor a Priest. It is Humility, Chastity, and Servitude for Christ, and his One True Church.

[@aje2366]

@@f9054 I don't know where you got that. But while I'm sure such a thing has happened, it is definitely not scandal after scandal. And a Priest alone does not have that type of Authority over Nuns. Second of all, you are correct. Nuns do not recieve Salaries. This is because of a Vow of Poverty they PERSONALLY take. If they did not feel comfortable not recieving a Salary, they have more than enough opportunities to back out. Years infact. First they take Temporary vows, and then they decide if they want a permanent vow. That is their decision to make. Priests have that too. 8 years to decide if they want to take a vow of Chasity. So, that has nothing to do with respect. There are some Priestly fraternities with the Vow of Poverty as well. And finally, most Priests are Misogynists? Really? I think you have the picture of Priests demanding Nuns around like maids, but that is not reality. They answer to their own respective leaders who are Women, not men.

[@miliniumo147]

@@f9054 Scandal after scandal? I think not, but the church certainly has them. Plenty of them. The church is made up of people, do you really expect them to be so perfect that there are no scandals or bad decisions? Scandals are everywhere and every profession has them. Teachers, doctors, priests, managers. Just because there are scandals, doesn't mean there isn't any respect, it means there's humans. Believe it or not, priests go to confession too, so yes they sin, yes they make mistakes, and yes, there are scandals.

[@rudybernal7735]

FATHER is GOD only! mother/father anyway you chose.

[@goodbanter4427]

Keep your back straight, Roman Catholics. Blessings from an Orthodox brother

[@flordemaga8497]

Thank you 🥰

[@TradRaider]

As with you my brother

[@ullupdrost4740]

Salve Brother. May Rome and Byzantium rise again.

[@DavidBustamanteda-bu-sa]

Females wanting to become Roman Catholic and Orthodox Christian priests are just female supremacists that want us males to be second-class citizens, especially straight males.

[@jritte1968]

@@DavidBustamanteda-bu-sa You nailed it my brother!

[@tereselittleflower]

Priesthood is not a gift which God will give me. He has given me the gift of being a woman, and I could not ask for more. Without women, we would not have priests in the first place.

[@magisterhpp]

What a great gift it is......

[@deaconbilcarter5210]

Succinct, and perfectly worded.

[@JohnDoe19991]

Men don't have the gift of being a mother ..... Why don't people understand this

[@Ignasimp]

So woman's greatness always comes from who they relate with? I dislike today's feminist movement a lot, but this is a sexist mindset.

[@Ignasimp]

@@JohnDoe19991 not all women have that gift and a lot of men have the gift of being a father. Edit: spelling

[@DoctorLazertron]

Being equal to men does not mean being exactly like men or to become men. The feminine spirit is special and has infinite value in our lives. Different does not mean better or worse!

[@awuriefnejqwjmnwn4960]

Finally someone gets it.

[@ranitafeliz2987]

Doesn't equality to men mean equality of opportunities (dignity) though?

[@DoctorLazertron]

@@ranitafeliz2987 As a man I don’t have the equality of opportunity to be a nun. That does nothing to my dignity.

[@awuriefnejqwjmnwn4960]

@@ranitafeliz2987 people are treated according to gods law and the circumstances of reality. Before god we are all the same, that is crucial

[@ranitafeliz2987]

@@DoctorLazertron There are roles equal in power as a nun, not in the other way though

[@Degeasofficial]

I'm from Indonesian and I was converted to Catholic Church in 2009. I Proud to being a Catholic.

[@josemariademanila677]

Welcome to the family of God!

[@neocrusader736]

I joined in 2013 my brother.

[@vincenzorutigliano5435]

Amen, God bless Indonesia 🇮🇩🇻🇦

[@HJKelley47]

De Gea's Official: Now that you are Roman Catholic, how do you plan on serving?

[@thomashogan16]

God open His arms to you! In blessings from your brother Catholic in far away California.

[@hannahawbrey2294]

Based on my understanding of this video, it seems as if priests must be men largely because of the apostles’ gender. I have a few questions about that. I ask this not to argue against the point of the video, but to further my own understanding. First of all, if priests must be men in order to remain obedient to Christ’s decision for the apostles, why don’t they have to be like the apostles in other ways as well? The apostles were of a different race, age, marital status, social class, and lifestyle than many priests today. Why is it that we copy their gender but not other important things about them? Also, how do we know that Christ specifically chose them because they were men? According to the information in the video, women are equally capable of doing the spiritual job of a priest. So couldn’t it be possible that all the apostles happened to be men because of the way women were treated back in Jesus’s day? Would it have been realistic for a woman to safely travel, preach, and have the same social influence that the male apostles did? Again, I’m not trying to argue. I’m sure there are reasonable Catholic answers to my misunderstandings, and I would really appreciate help finding them. Thanks and God bless!

[@Ignasimp]

The thing is that I also thought there were reasonable explanations about this. But i've been asking them for years, and still haven't found them. Not even from bishops.

[@francismlelwa5766]

The most important point why woman can not be ordained to Priest they can not act in " Persona Christo" during consecration of Eucharist.

[@rawr7022]

@David Ohlhaut Thank you so much! Though I am a Catholic, I still have so many things to learn. Your explanation has definitely helped me understand better.

[@robertj.4152]

Phoebe in Revelations was a Deacon, ordained by Christ.

[@rodrigohuaman4912]

"Would it have been realistic for a woman to safely travel, preach, and have the same social influence that the male apostles did?" Yes. The Bible specifically mentions that women traveled with Jesus. Had Jesus wanted only women to become apostles, he could've done so. You also said it yourself about the apostles having different ethnic and marital backgrounds compared to modern day bishops and priests, but also amongst themselves, and that is because they were chosen as jewish men to behold the fulfilment of the Davidic prophecy. The issue with race was resolved once it was revealed that gentiles could partake in the plan of salvation of the Gospel, so naturally they needn't follow rules about only middle eastern jewish males being allowed to be ordained, though the very clearly implicit rule of all ordained being men persisted. Keep in mind jews back in the day weren't "ethnically pure" so there is some chance the apostles varied somewhat in hue. From there it's only logical to accept that gentiles of more contrasting skin tones could also be ordained.

[@gillianc8106]

I understand that one of the reasons for excluding women from the priesthood is due to the biblical example set by Jesus in choosing only male apostles. But didn’t he also only choose middle-eastern apostles? It’s easy to argue that this wasn’t by way of excluding, say, blond men or Caucasian men from ordination, and was more due to the circumstances of the time - that the world was less easily travelled so the available men would naturally be from that geographical area. However, the same could be said of the choice of men over women. In that period, women had less freedom, were taken less seriously and were less likely to be available to take on evangelistic or discipleship work. Perhaps the choice of men as apostles was as non-prescriptive as where they came from. How do we know that when those middle-eastern men were made apostles, Jesus meant to indicate that their gender was definitive, but not their heritage? Or even their colouring (since it’s likely they all had, say, dark hair)? I’m genuinely curious here. Why was the line drawn at their gender, rather than any of their other characteristics?

[@nellielamcis7545]

Very well said..That's what running through my thoughts too..

[@buedro143]

Except that both the books of 1st and 2nd Timothy make it clear that women may not serve in the Presbytery or Episcopate. It specifically says that [in the context of the church] women are not permitted to have the authority of teaching over a man.

[@nellielamcis7545]

@@buedro143 Yes its True, it is because of the context of that time.

[@buedro143]

@@nellielamcis7545 If it was at the context of the time, it would also render the rest of the book meaningless. I understand that books such as Leviticus and other laws of the old testament were meant for specific people at specific times, but the epistles of Paul are instructions to the Church. Those instructions were not simply for the time but as a foundation of how the Church of Christ would be run forever. We can not take the rest of the book as an eternal and inspired principle but pick out the ones we don't like and proclaim they they are not right for our generation.

[@nellielamcis7545]

@@buedro143 Wow..maybe you can help me out also trying to find out the truth about women deacons in the early Christians. It was said that it has biblical accounts but I have no time to see. Thanks

[@varianeng9668]

Very insightful. I'm not a Catholic but I find much of what you teach, preach and practice to be very sound, even if I don't always agree with it.

[@Garbanzo884]

No woman can be a father just as no man can be a mother.

[@Ashey1690]

No statue of Mary can be worshipped but yet roman catholics pray to Mary, statues, saints, dead popes etc Timothy 2:5 For there is one God, and there is one mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus,

[@Garbanzo884]

@@Ashey1690 I don't know how to get you to understand but Catholics and Orthodox worship God alone. The Saints, including the Most Holy Theotokos and Ever Virgin Mary are in Heaven praying for the whole world.

[@Garbanzo884]

@@Ashey1690 you ask your friends on Earth to pray for you, why not ask our friends in Heaven?

[@Ashey1690]

@@Garbanzo884 Yes I do, to pray to God for me. The power of prayer it's called. Praying to The Only One who can actually answer. How hard is it just to pray to God through the one and ONLY mediator, Jesus. Praying to anyone/anything else is idolatry

[@Ashey1690]

@@Garbanzo884 Popes over the centuries have taken books from the Holy Bible and even manipulated the Ten Commandments. God wants our prayers directed at Him through the One and ONLY mediator Christ Jesus, Mary or anyone else can not mediate on our behalf.

[@lowenwelle1044]

We have a so called "catholic women`s rights movement" here in Germany. They call themself "Maria 2.0" (second version of Mary) and they are on average very old ladies. Of course they want female priests. You know, what they don´t want at their 'catholic' gatherings? Holy Mass with the eucharist. They prefer a 'word service' ("Wortgottesdienst") without the eucharist. And there is a counter-movent too, called "Maria 1.0" (first version of Mary) and ironically they are wayyyy younger and they want a stable catholic church. They have Holy Masses at their gatherings. Guess who is attacking these fine young women and call them "medieval"?

[@oimss2021]

This Maria 2.0 are just protestant boomers

[@setarita]

Wow. I pray for the Church in Germany.

[@dansedevie123]

I think it is possible to have a discussion on the role of women in the Church, without starting a group, breaking away, and protesting, no?

[@flyingdutchman3860]

Wortgottesdienst is just a service held when no priest is available I thought? In principle "pre-consecrated" communion can be received during this, assuming that a priest has consecrated the bread beforehand. I don't mind this so much, since where I am from we only have 3 priests for 11 churches. I do not like when it turns into a form of secular activism like what you are describing in Germany. It is nice that our generation is trying to make the mass more reverent.

[@nieves8160]

Löwen Welle why can’t they just go anglican or lutheran. I doubt they care for theology

[@bongwaygirl5266]

I'm sorry, but 2000-something years ago, Jesus also did not have a KZbin channel. Why accepting changing times only it suits the Church?

[@patricksoares6253]

Your statement does not make sense.

[@SirThyrm]

@@patricksoares6253 i think it does. It asks the question of why some things can and others can not be changed. The "we always did it that way" does not apply because as he pointed out other things did change. Calling it out to be just something that is convenient to the church that changes, makes clear that it needs an answer that is based not on what the church likes and don't likes and that the reasoning for something not to change it needs a batter answer than tradition. I would think that it does change tho, Today the Pope did give women more rights in the conducting of mass.

[@patricksoares6253]

@@SirThyrm The pope did not change nothing in this aspect. This fact concerning the Catholic Church has to be very clear: She is not driven by the ideas of the current time and by people's opinion. She is the body of Christ and mantains her 2000 years teaching despite of what the world wants. Tradition is one pillar of the Church, so "we always did it that way" is indeed important. What may be changed is what CAN be changed. The central aspects of the faith are not into question, and this is one. "Jesus Christ did not call any women to become part of the Twelve. If he acted in this way, it was not in order to conform to the customs of his time, for his attitude towards women was quite different from that of his milieu, and he deliberately and courageously broke with it." - Declaration on the question of admission of women to the ministerial priesthood

[@gillianc8106]

@@patricksoares6253 Jesus also didn’t call any, say, Americans to the Twelve. And yet we have American priests.

[@patricksoares6253]

​@@gillianc8106 But it is explicitly stated in the Scriptures to evangelize the gentiles and spread the gospel to them. In the writings of Saint Paul that is notorious. And at the same time, there's no evidence (not in the Scriptures nor in the early, medieval and modern Church) that women could be priests. The Church is Catholic, universal to the human genre, and it would be irracional to deny other races the sacrament of order. And it would be irracional to lift the Church, Scripture and Tradition teachings because of man made tendencies.

[@Gabilondia12345]

Fr. Casey, I am a woman and I believe in tradition. Tradition is the cornerstone of why Catholicism is true and strong. Why would we want to change that? I was hoping you would've also explained and emphasized the importance of women's roles in the church. Our mother Mary, is the queen of the church...if anything, that is by far one of the most important roles ever existed! And her example is enough to represent what a woman's role in this world should be and what an honor it is to be able to even become an inkling of what our mother is. Why don't we just focus and emphasize the importance of the roles of women in our church now? There are so many, and one of them being a mother. Why change that? When it is the most beautiful role ever!

[@kimthetruthofit6965]

Mary Magdallen was accepted by Jesus Christ as an equal to the other disciples . Why do we discrimate now.

[@gregorybrian]

Stoning, polygamy, and slavery were also traditions. Tradition is not synonymous with righteousness, as was evidenced by the Pharisees. Traditions change over time. Life is change. The only condition in which nothing changes is death.

[@logicallyfallacious4151]

gregory brian heresy.

[@_MysticKnight]

@@gregorybrian You are committing the sin of Modernism. Please, I hope you realise this before you go to Mass and partake in the Eucharist in the future.

[@derekr1013]

@@kimthetruthofit6965 I anxiously await your scriptural evidence of Mary Magdalene administering the sacraments.

[@Elijah_Al-Naysaburi]

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[@Ssookawai]

Be careful. I'm muslim myself and I have nothing against converting to another religion but don't forget the laws of the land. There are some countries that forbid proselytism as the state religion is different (like my own country and also UAE) and the rulers want to keep it the only powerful one. If you're foreigner, you might also risk extradition to your home country. Keep your faith, learn more about it and avoid talking about it in a public space. That's a sincere recommendation from me. I personally have a bible in my home despite the fact that I'm muslim and I'm not against christianity. Good luck.

[@rudybernal7735]

Suhail, read THE BIBLE ! Following or reading it in someone’s presence makes a difference! 🙏

[@Perririri]

Israel is not Christian.

[@nbayoungboyneverbrokeagain6520]

Do not be afraid and become a martyr if you must, spread the word of Jesus Christ!

[@hiderunbride8431]

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[@BreakingInTheHabit]

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[@hojoinhisarcher]

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[@walterhigo7658]

Women do have a role and a MISSION in the Catholic Church. Just think of all the wonderful mysteries the world have come to know, almost exclusively through various saintly women. St. Faustina, St. Teresa of Avila, St. Clare of Assisi, St. Teresa de Lisieux, St. Bernadette, Sister Lucía of Fatima, Mary Magdalene and so on and so forth.

[@adinameyer6716]

Walter, have you ever read The Story of a Soul by St. Therese of Lisieux? She says she felt a call to priesthood from a young age. Because girls were not allowed to be priests, she decided her vocation would be to pray for priests. But she seriously felt God calling her to be a priest and the Church standing in her way.

[@walterhigo7658]

@@adinameyer6716 She may have "FELT it", that doesn't mean that was God calling her to Priesthood. She was a little girl when she felt that calling to a RELIGIOUS life that she may have confused with the priesthood.

[@adinameyer6716]

@@walterhigo7658 She was literally one of the greatest saints who ever lived. She is revered as a Doctor of the Church. And you're saying she may not have known what God was saying to her? That she was "confused?" Or that you know better than she did?

[@walterhigo7658]

@@adinameyer6716 GOD would not call you to do something that goes against Church Doctrine. Only men can be "IN PERSONA CRISTI" because Jesus Christ was a MAN. GOD in his infinite wisdom decided from all eternity that the second person of the Holy Trinity would come to this earth as a MAN, and that for all eternity He would be a MAN. Women are equally important in the Church, but they play other SACRED & IMPORTANT ROLES. Think of the VIRGIN MARY, the pinnacle of GOD's creation (including the Angels). As spiritually elevated as St Therese was, she was still a human being affected by original sin, so it is completely possible that she may have made a mistake. Even Abraham "mis interpreted" God's will for him at one point.

[@adinameyer8367]

@@walterhigo7658 actually that was the old argument from Inter Insegnores that was overturned by the church. The most recent argument is from Ordinatio Sacerdotalis- where JP II wrote that the reason women can’t be priests is not because they can’t stand in persona christi but because Jesus only appointed men as His apostles. Therefore the Church can’t go against that.

[@aye05jaye]

Hello Father Casey! I don't believe Women were called to be Priests, Bishops, or even Deacons. In my Women of Grace class at Church, I've learned that Women are called by God to be Mothers (in all shapes and forms) so that we can aid society and humankind from falling. Only Women have the ability to bring forth life from our Bodies...something Men will never be able to do. And let us not forget that there is a someone who holds far more Grace, Mercy, and Divine Love than any Apostle, and serves as an Intercessor for us to Christ. She is our Blessed Virgin Mother. A Woman.

[@emilierose9402]

I respect your perspective but wonder what you think of women specifically named as deacons in the early Church? Romans 16:1 Phoebe was the only person specifically named as a Deacon in the original Greek New Testament. I'd recommend Phyllis Zengano books. She's serving on the group reviewing female deacons in the Church's history appointed by Pope Francis.

[@sondoisnotdead]

Exactly! They also say "If God want to make some heroic thing He chose Man, if He want to make impossible then He chose Woman" :)

[@archangelmichael5908]

It is possible that they can be called to the priesthood.

[@Marysservant]

@@archangelmichael5908 Fr. Casey just presented why women cannot. be priest.

[@jessr1698]

@@emilierose9402 deacons of back then played a completely different role than that of modern day

[@mslitchick]

Hi Fr. Casey, I'm Catholic but no theologian. Yet this confuses me. Christ appeared to Mary Magdalene first. She was at his Crucifixion and tended his tomb. The apostles were in hiding. Mary told the Apostles Jesus was resurrected. For me that says women can be priests. Jesus didn't seek out his disciples. He appeared originally to Mary Magdalene. She told them Christ has risen.

[@captainlebowski241]

Mary Magdalene wasn’t an apostle, she was a disciple

[@vincentcoppola9832]

An Apostle is one who is called AND sent - Jesus commisioned 12 men to spread the gospel. Mary Magdalene was called and did follow Jesus, but she was not sent as the Apostles were.

[@paulb3507]

I’m sorry Father, you can spin it any way you like, it’s still anti-woman. Doesn’t St. Paul say that there is no longer woman or man for we are all one in Christ?

[@paulb3507]

@Al Strider Thank you. I’ll pray for you, please pray for me.

[@adaobiezeodum3913]

I really don't know too much about other types of ordination, but I see this fight to want to do everything men can do as actually anti-women because it presupposes that a woman's purpose/role is only valid when is taking up the role of a traditionally male role. It's placing the male roles over female roles which I would believe to be sexist??

[@TuberoseKisser]

Agree but at the same time there shouldn't be a limit, It should be based on who's better at the task.

[@dansedevie123]

@@TuberoseKisser I think the point is, the Church's reasoning is not that men are better at the task.

[@dansedevie123]

I'm not talking about the priesthood and I get where you are coming from-- but lot of roles that are considered male or female can and have changed. Women didn't insist on the right to vote, or go to university, or become doctors, so they could be like men. Not allowing women to do those things really limited them and perpetuated the inequality of women in society. Not being able to work made it hard for single women to support themselves. Not having the right to vote meant women's voices were not considered in law making and government decisions.

[@flyingdutchman3860]

I agree in part. I do not think it is anti-woman, but it does presupose that male roles are better than female roles, which is of course nonesense. For example society often times view doctors (a male dominated profession) as more important than nurses (a female dominated profession). I have seen people get upset about artists who draw a female nurse + a male doctor because it instills negative gender stereotypes. The implication of this sentiment is that doctors are better than nurses. I don't think it is true that one is better than the other since the whole system fails if one of the two stopped coming into work. Society, including many feminists seem to value male dominated professions more than female dominated professions. It is an easy trap to fall into. After all male dominated professions do offer higher pay and often yield a higher degree of power (trad masculine values btw, which become damaging if they become the goal).

[@dansedevie123]

@@flyingdutchman3860 We also have to wonder... do women just pick lower paying jobs, or are they lower paying because they are female dominated? Part of the reason why we have so many female teachers was because schools decided it would be cheaper to hire women-- back then you could pay them less-- and it became one of the few acceptable jobs for women. Computing in its early days used to be a much more female profession- once men started entering it more, wages went up.

[@DragonBloodShepherd]

And what about Mary Magdalene being allowed to follow AND was chosen (in a way) to do so by Jesus? She was a woman that followed him, am I right? Prove me wrong.

[@andresarpi1143]

JPII does sound definitive, no matter how liberal theologians want to slice it.

[@polemeros]

If he had used the very same language but decided that women COULD be priests, liberal theologians would want you excommunicated even for asking a question about it. The culture war in the larger society exists in exactly the same way within the Church.

[@michaelmonsoon3919]

You are correct Andres and it might be why he wrote it. He knew the " winds of change" for the worse was rising and had bee percolating for several decades prior.

[@deaconbilcarter5210]

Very true. The language used by St. John Paul II in Ordinatio Sacerdotalis (1994) is unmistakably infallible, but for reasons we can only guess, he used the vehicle of an Apostolic Letter to convey this teaching. Normally, such a definitive statement would come in the form of an Apostolic Constitution. For example, Ineffabilis Deus (1854) and Munificentissimus Deus (1950) are both infallible papal teachings. Respectively, they promote the dogmatic teachings of the Immaculate Conception of Mary and her Assumption into Heaven. Both of them are in the form of Apostolic Constitutions, lending weight to the papal pronouncement in each. Because of this, many have opposed the infallibility of Ordinatio Sacerdotalis. However, a year later, the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith (the Vatican's chief theological authority), then led by Joseph Cardinal Ratzinger, who would later become Pope Benedict XVI, declared that Ordinatio Sacerdotalis, irrespective of the form of the letter, contained teaching that was "ordinary to the universal magisterium", that is, infallible due to its universal adherence by the Church. It further added that this teaching was intrinsic to the Deposit of Faith. In other words, they were saying that John Paul II's teaching was not his own idea, but a reflection of the teaching of the Holy Spirit throughout the life of the Church. In practical terms, that essentially makes it infallible, even if Pope John Paul II didn't explicitly say so.

[@andresarpi1143]

@@deaconbilcarter5210 thanks for that extra info!

[@jaredxtian1]

@@deaconbilcarter5210 perhaps it is because infallibility only applies to matters of faith and morals. the ban on women priests falls under the category of church discipline and therefore cannot be declared infallible,

[@sallybartholomew8470]

The parish secretary runs everything

[@ryanleclaire3948]

LMAO it's true

[@michaelcraig9427]

As a Protestant minister I can say we also have that experience! What a blessing. Great channel this.

[@sassulusmagnus]

I wonder who the parish secretary is at St. Peter's in Rome?

[@jaredxtian1]

@@sassulusmagnus HIS name is Fr. Gonzalo Aemilius from Uruguay. (personal secretary of his holiness Pope Francis)

[@dawnlapka2433]

That's right. And sometimes to the point of hurting fellow women due to jealousy of the priests they serve. It's a slippery slope and priests need to be careful who they hire....

[@TheShereen1964]

Iam a woman am very happy being one a d I don’t to compete with men am made by God he knows best His will not mine 🙏🏽

[@patricksoares6253]

And I wish you the very best of the world, sister. I always feel sad and in revolt when good women like you get mistreated by irresponsible men who forget their duties towards women. May the Lord always guide and bless you!

[@canadiankewldude]

God bless.

[@r.j.whitaker]

Priesthood is not a competition.

[@gowdsake7103]

Sad weak and subservient doormat to probably a violent husband

[@animayz7706]

Except it's not his will. In book of revelation, it's the only time priest, an equivalent to the word, is mentioned in the new testament and it says almost the first resurrection people will be priests. Do you really only believe men are a part of the first resurrection?

[@fbrlajes]

when the Roman pontiff speaks EX CATHEDRA, that is, when, in the exercise of his office as shepherd and teacher of all Christians, in virtue of his supreme apostolic authority, he defines a doctrine concerning faith or morals to be held by the whole church. Look again at JPII definitive statement. It fits in the Ex Cathedra category. Joseph Ratzinger (who became Pope Benedict XVI) was the Prefect of the CDF and issued a clarification saying that JPII exercised the charism of infallibility.

[@mcmemmo]

Ordinatio sacerdotalis is an Apostolic Letter which is of lesser authority than an Apostolic Constitution like Munificentissimus Deus - so a good case can be made that JP2 wasn't interested in declaring an infallible doctrine, and in his role as head of the CDF, Cardinal Ratzinger wasn't infallible either.

[@stockscalper]

Who died and left the Bishop in Rome in charge? Certainly not Jesus. The "pope" is nothing more than an instrument of Satan.

[@davidoneill9244]

@@stockscalper Sounds like a good solid Catholic - NOT!!!!!!!!

[@domo3699]

@@mcmemmo Well, Church explains itself. You have no authority.

[@anthonyhollands8004]

Isn't it just obvious that women wouldn't have been apostles/disciples at that time (being a very patriarchal society)? So of course they wouldn't have been included. But why be bound to the wrongs of the past?

[@joshuaeliasalva2774]

What about Mary Magdalene and Martha?

[@patricksoares6253]

Christ was not limited to the preferences of His time, brother. He chose men because this is the will of God, not because society was patriarchal.

[@anthonyhollands8004]

@@patricksoares6253 Not sure how you could possibly know that, but accept that it is your opinion. (I only accept the bible as a historical source but not an accurate or infallible one, so I'm ruling that out).

[@patricksoares6253]

@@anthonyhollands8004 It's quite obvious in fact. Christ was a perfect man, and entirely God. His will is infallible. If He was God, it is impossible that men and societies could in any approach constrain His will. Christ nor his apostles (that carried the church after the ressurection) did not act by convenience, they acted by faith and conviction (remember martyrdom).

[@joshuaeliasalva2774]

@@patricksoares6253 I suppose this story has to begin from Adam. Because God created a woman from Adam. Maybe it's due to the order of creation or that it was considered to be a bad world for women during Jesus' time. I disagree that women should be given the priesthood because it has been the doctrine since many years to have males as priests. Women have a greater role to build society either by working jobs, being mothers, activists etc. Somethings are inexplicable. In our churches mostly women conduct liturgy and they take part in church a lot like the leaders of associations, organising events ,etc.

[@mertmolina8312]

A great discussion about the Deacons. Thankyou for taking the time to explain the churches position

[@marktownsend3586]

Mother Superiors are respected. I saw one at my daughters school explaining her annoyance about the standard of workmanship to some contractors. I think they had the fear of God put into them.

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[@JM-740]

If Christ wanted women priests he would’ve made it so. No pope has the authority to allow it, as it is a sacrament. JP II’s Ordinatio sacerdotalis explains it pretty well. The genius of men and women are different and they are complimentary. Women and men have different callings and roles, I would question more the motives of one who wants to be placed in such role simply because they are roles of men. Do you believe that women can have genuine calls to the priesthood?

[@songbirds3712]

Well said!

[@cecectconnecticut344]

The Pope could change it.

[@LostArchivist]

@@cecectconnecticut344 The Pope is not God.

[@vinceeso9037]

Well said. Bergoglio is a False Prophet.

[@sorchaaislingoregan1000]

Considering the many female priests across Anglicanism and Protestantism, along with the evidence to suggest there was a female pope in the 13th century... The short answer is yes.

[@ScarlettOcean92]

Several problems indicated here. I would love it if these could somehow be answered in a future video. 1. While Jesus chose his apostles from men, he never made any explicit statement that his choice was in any way based on gender, or exclusionary towards women. 2. In fact, the idea that we, as God's imperfect creations, are somehow placing that inequity and inferiority onto God's female children based entirely on guesswork seems to me to be tantamount to "putting words into God's mouth", so to speak, which I find thoroughly repugnant in every way. 2. Jesus was not ordaining his apostles as "priests" and it seems to me like priesthood itself is a concept entirely fabricated by the Catholic church itself, separate entirely from scripture. As do the titles of bishop, deacon, and so on. How does the church justify its creation of hierarchical roles within the church with no Biblical direction, and then have the audacity to exclude half of God's children from it?

[@riograndedosulball248]

First Jesus only called upon men to be apostles, as the father only called men to be prophets. He could have called women, but he didn't. He chose not to, because he had a different mission for women. Mary was the holyest person in this world, she never sinned, and jesus praised his mother, but didn't made her an apostle, neither did to Mary Magdalene. It wasn't his plan. And also, when a woman has the divine call, she becomes a nun, which is no less than a priest, but with a different mission

[@riograndedosulball248]

2 This is a no question, cannot answer something that doesn't make sense

[@riograndedosulball248]

3 Priests are the continuation of the apostles, period. About the hierarchy, it's simple. It exists to keep unity and to administrate the fisical aspect of the Church, as priests must be paid, fed, new churches must be built, old ones be mantained, etc. A bishop or a cardinal aren't more important than a priest, it's just that they were chose, due to their capabilities, to administrate a diocese

[@anthonyburke3000]

My understanding is that the priest acts in persona Christi when celebrating the sacraments. Since Christ IS a man a woman cannot act in persona Christi. Mary serves as the penultimate role of women in the Church and should always be followed as that example. She is the Queen of Heaven. God is Father, Son and Holy Spirit. Two of the persons in the Trinity are explicitly male. This issue is not about equality. It's about power. I remember this same temptation played out in Genesis.

[@danielz4192]

Actually, all three are presented as explicitly masculine. The Holy Spirit is also exclusively referred to as “He”

[@jamesmccloud7535]

@@danielz4192 He is symbolic not literal

[@FatJoe98100]

This is also why concelebration is considered by some to be a liturgical abuse because Christ was one man not many.

[@josephcastillo1703]

You are exactly right about in persona Christi…I’m pretty disappointed that Father forgot to mention this in his video.

[@nicholaswhitman4620]

Long ago Mary of Magdelene was considered an apostle by early Christian communities.

[@bettyh.3280]

Exactly... what a terribly self justifying rationale from this well meaning priest for continuing the inequities of the early church, not of Jesus who on his return to the earth chose two women to appear to. How were women's roles written out of the Gospels? Who got to choose what Gospels were considered to be part of our bible? Sorry but Jesus had no hand in any of that...

[@nicholaspresberg3269]

@@bettyh.3280 did he chose to ordan them, or apper to them. Women play a huge role in the Bible, like Mary, Queen of Heaven and earth, this is no low praise. But God did not intend for women to be preists. Sacred Tradition proves this. We cannot destroy Sacred Tradition in the name of equality, for as st. Thomas Moore said when the devil comes knocking, what can we hide behind. Women and Men are equal in dignity, but not in responsibility. The role women play in the Church is huge, for with out a yes from One woman, there would be no Church. God chose a woman to be the Mother of God, so that we could become his children again. Now every mother is called to be the mother of a child of God. St. Augustins mother prayed for his conversion for over 30 years, now he is one of the best know theologians, this is the power of a mother. There are countless times in history when a man married a catholic woman, and she converts him. With out women. There would be no Church.

[@misty4937]

@Conner L Jesus didn't appoint anyone!!!! Men appointed themselves.

[@misty4937]

@@nicholaspresberg3269 I call BS, the patriarchal, sexist male dominated church established in 335 AD took away the priesthood of women that had been practiced for 300 years. In various sects of Christianity. The lies of Catholicism are too great to go over here. There was a COUP I'm 325 n the men won. MARY, Jesus's 1st n greatest disciple.

[@Ulice90]

@@misty4937 oh please cut the crap. Priesthood was never taken from woman what are you talking about ? Sexist male dominated. Seems you are a sola scruptura "christian" am I right ?

[@renato4183]

Greetings from an Orthodox to our Catholic brethren ! I love it when I see the catholics stand firm against all these worldly whims and trends in priesthood but would love it more if they had done the same with the heresies and trends of the past and would love it the best if they return to the origins so that we can become one again !!!

[@jaqian]

Greetings brother, we pray for the day when we are reunited but I think you need to take the beam out of your own eyes first 😉

[@renato4183]

@@jaqian it is not my own eyes !!! We all know the faith of the first millennium, lets go back to the first millennium!! All isuues can be settled then one by one !!! We check : was there a filioque or wasn’t in the first million etc etc etc

[@Milkman12345]

I pray we can reunite one day. I think that compromises can be made maybe, like getting rid of filoque but keeping the catechism

[@renato4183]

@@Milkman12345 we need unity

[@steffski1946]

We can and should work this out as followers of Jesus, putting His thoughts above our thoughts

[@YardenJZ]

I'm disappointed. You warned that this video will be disappointing, but I was disappointed to not be disappointed.

[@LuisReyes-sm7kc]

Hahaha

[@isaiah3872]

Oy vey 😂

[@roryocallaghan8395]

It's a pretty standard defence. Expedient rationalising to justify holding on to old ways.

[@Marysservant]

@@roryocallaghan8395 Catholism is based on Scripture and Tradition

[@erincassidy-cernanec9755]

Tammy Osborne how is tradition made if not taking into consideration the theologizing of the present?

[@cittiavaticano]

There is SO much more being left out of this about this. The theology of ordination is far more than the 3 reasons presented as though standing alone. not all men can be priests! the body of christ transforms into a perverted deformed figure when an arm tries to be a leg. this should have nothing to do with the 'anything you can do i can do better'. its the wrong starting off point.

[@Thomasrice07]

But why is sex singled out as a defining characteristic? Men can be members of the Bride of Christ (the Church). Why cannot a female be Alter Christus.

[@jeanrichard5850]

Most of the time his post are very controversial and causes divisions, even to the point of people sinning by saying bad stuff against each other or the Church etc... he knows it and I think he likes it, he should spend more time doing videos of him presiding at Mass, or leading the rosary or even teaching the catechism of the Catholic Church, witch would unite the faithful not divide them, we all know who divides. 😈

[@JM-740]

Thomasrice07 christ wasn’t female. So females cannot by definition be another Christ. I would recommend reading JPII’s encyclical and on ordination and the sacrament itself. It’s quite eye opening.

[@kimthetruthofit6965]

You are talking of some thing that was brought about by the Church not Christ. How where the disciples ordinated ?

[@Marysservant]

@@kimthetruthofit6965 The apostles were all men, chosen by Jesus and ordained at the Last Supper- Holy Thursday-just before His death.

[@wyrdaen]

Saying that woman are 'capable' but 'not allowed' is one of the most disriminating statement possible: you (church) do not want women not because of some logical impediment, but because they have one different pair of chromosomes.

[@patricksoares6253]

Christ chose men to the priesthood, the Church is just maintaning what Christ established.

[@Martin-id1ri]

clearly u don't understand the catholic church, before getting mad do some research first!

[@wyrdaen]

I'm not mad, and I like to believe that my understanding of catholicism is quite good. I'm just stating a fact. To make you an example: Christ chose only people from Israel and nearby regions to follow him, hence, if the Church wish to maintain traditions the priests could only be from those regions. You would say: "Dear lady or sir, this is non-sense, of course no people from any other region were chosen, how could have they?" To which I would reply: "Dear lady or sir, of course no woman was chosen, how could have they?". It was a mere cultural discrimination, a so common practice back then (not in every country, but it was in Israel) that doing otherwise would have been evidentaly regarded as too extreme.

[@patricksoares6253]

@@wyrdaen But it is written that the church is universal and must pursue the gentiles. But it is NOT written that the church must be open to the priesthood of women. Saint Paul didn't said to order women, but to evangelize the gentiles. The whole bible endorses the fact of the new convenant and of the life by faith in Christ (not by the law, hence not by the hebrew blood). The bible doesn't tell to extend the responsibilities of men to women. Cultural discrimination is not the reason by which the Church made it this way. If it was the reason, so matyrdom would never happen. Christ is not constrained by the power of men, cultures, societies etc. He chooses as He will, and He chose only men.

[@princepis]

This is a very shallow explanation of why women cannot be priests, even if the reasons Fr. Casey gave are correct. I recommend everyone to search up Ven. Archbishop Fulton Sheen’s explanation.

[@setarita]

His young and liberal and surrounded by student he probably does not want to trigger. We all know what triggered liberal students can do.

[@humphreyobanor866]

Please send the link of Fr. Sheen

[@BattleSword]

Potato ....But he loves God and teaches us to love God.

[@jaredxtian1]

@Potato and a liberal priest is.....? be careful. His holiness Pope Francis is considered to be liberal. :)

[@sideless6706]

inb4 it turns out Fr Casey is a secret Rad Trad. I am kidding.

[@D0csavage1]

Gen. 3:15; Luke 1:26-55; John 19:26; Rev. 12:1- Mary is God’s greatest creation, was the closest person to Jesus, and yet Jesus did not choose her to become a priest. God chose only men to be priests to reflect the complimentarity of the sexes. Just as the man (the royal priest) gives natural life to the woman in the marital covenant, the ministerial priest gives supernatural life in the New Covenant sacraments. Judges 17:10; 18:19 - fatherhood and priesthood are synonymous terms. Micah says, “Stay with me, and be to me a father and a priest.” Fathers/priests give life, and mothers receive and nurture life. This reflects God our Father who gives the life of grace through the Priesthood of His Divine Son, and Mother Church who receives the life of grace and nourishes her children. In summary, women cannot be priests because women cannot be fathers. Mark 16:9; Luke 7: 37-50; John 8:3-11 - Jesus allowed women to uniquely join in His mission, exalting them above cultural norms. His decision not to ordain women had nothing to do with culture. The Gospel writers are also clear that women participated in Jesus’ ministry and, unlike men, never betrayed Jesus. Women have always been held with the highest regard in the Church (e.g., the Church’s greatest saint and model of faith is a woman; the Church’s constant teaching on the dignity of motherhood; the Church’s understanding of humanity as being the Bride united to Christ, etc.). Mark 14:17,20; Luke 22:14 - the language “the twelve” and “apostles” shows Jesus commissioned the Eucharistic priesthood by giving holy orders only to men. Gen. 14:10; Heb. 5:6,10; 6:20; 7:15,17 - Jesus, the Son of God, is both priest and King after the priest-king Melchizedek. Jesus’ priesthood embodies both Kingship and Sonship. Gen. 22:9-13 - as foreshadowed, God chose our redemption to be secured by the sacrificial love that the Son gives to the Father. Matt. 26:26; Mark 14:22; Luke 22:19 - because the priest acts in persona Christi in the offering to the Father, the priest cannot be a woman. Mark 3:13 - Jesus selected the apostles “as He desired,” according to His will, and not according to the demands of His culture. Because Jesus acted according to His will which was perfectly united to that of the Father, one cannot criticize Jesus’ selection of men to be His priests without criticizing God. John 20:22 - Jesus only breathed on the male apostles, the first bishops, giving them the authority to forgive and retain sins. In fact, the male priesthood of Christianity was a distinction from the priestesses of paganism that existed during these times. A female priesthood would be a reversion to non-Christian practices. The sacred tradition of a male priesthood has existed uncompromised in the Church for 2,000 years. 1 Cor. 14:34-35 - Paul says a woman is not permitted to preach the word of God in the Church. It has always been the tradition of the Church for the priest or deacon alone (an ordained male) to read and preach the Gospel. 1 Tim. 2:12 - Paul also says that a woman is not permitted to hold teaching authority in the Church. Can you imagine how much Mary, the Mother of God, would have been able to teach Christians about Jesus her Son in the Church? Yet, she was not permitted to hold such teaching authority in the Church. Rom. 16:1-2 - while many Protestants point to this verse denounce the Church’s tradition of a male priesthood, deaconesses, like Phoebe, were helpers to the priests (for example, preparing women for naked baptism so as to prevent scandal). But these helpers were never ordained. Luke 2:36-37 - prophetesses, like Anna, were women who consecrated themselves to religious life, but were not ordained. Isaiah 3:12 - Isaiah complains that the priests of ancient Israel were having their authority usurped by women, and this was at the height of Israel’s covenant apostasy. *(Scripture Catholic Apologetics)*

[@inibeheudo3878]

As lucid as it could be!

[@danielfronc4304]

Excellent. Thanks much with what must have been a very time consuming upload.

[@jamesaberle2047]

0:16 St. John Paul II - Never going to happen

[@careydepass130]

Ridiculous excuse. Do you think God cares? Human beings care but God doesn't care. I am from the Anglican Church of Canada. We hired our first female priest two years ago. She is doing just fine. A few months later, a woman was selected to be Bishop of our Diocese. Nothing changed other than the leader had a different style. Why do you think God cares about such petty things?

[@deaconbilcarter5210]

You say "she is doing fine". But as the sacraments are "visible signs of an invisible reality", how can you know that? Can you see the ontological change from bread and wine to the Body and Blood of Christ? Of course not. I don't dispute that Christians of all varieties truly love Christ, but we are not free to make up the rules on our own. Scripture gives us all we need to establish the liturgical norms of the Church. Only a baptized man can accept ordination. I am not priest, but as a deacon who serves in Mass almost every day and who preaches a few times a week, I certainly know all the words the priest says, I know how to use the Missal, I know all the gestures, and I know where he hangs his vestments. I could certainly put on a priest's vestments, process to the altar and simulate a Mass that would convince anybody I was the real deal. But I'm not. It would be a charade and nothing would be sacramentally consecrated if I said the Eucharistic prayer over it. People might leave Mass thinking I was just wonderful, but all I would have managed to do was lie to them and incur sin upon my own soul. They might think they received the Body and Blood of Christ, but it would just be a cracker and some wine. My point is this. Just because it looks good doesn't make it authentic.

[@kvetamarie]

And we got a few converts from Anglicans

[@Colley_co]

Thanks for the video! I am an Episcopalian (in seminary for ordination), so I would obviously have a different view of this but I did not grow up Catholic so it is nice to have a better understanding of the Catholic perspective and learn about the important roles women can and should have in the Catholic Church. Love your channel!

[@prkp7248]

Well you know, 100 years ago episcopals would say the same.

[@ChristianHopchas]

@@prkp7248 Protestants don't flip-flop on theology challenge (impossible)

[@davidmehling4310]

I grew up Catholic and left age 19, no regrets. I'll give him credit for explaining in depth, but I've long believed in opening clergy to women. Now Episcopalian and recently attended a memorable consecration of a female Bishop.

[@thehippiecatholic]

I think the issue comes from the clericalism in the Church. One of my mentors as a kid was a Sister and she was honestly such a leader of our church. As I grew older, I learned that nuns and sisters do not hold very much organizational power in the Vatican and are still considered laypeople (which I’ve read people now distinguish them as leading “religious lives”, but still). Upon doing my own research, there’s cases for women clergy and there’s cases against it. One of the reasons I found that the early Church fathers didn’t want women priests was because they thought that having a woman priest was a denial of the literal nature of the Eucharist. In their context, and in the context of many ancient societies, blood rituals were always performed by men and was a parallel to pregnancy in women. Blood rituals were also used to establish lineages and we see this in the apostolic succession. Blood rituals were used to establish male lineages, which is interesting when you consider that the requirements of being seen as Jewish was to have a Jewish mother. Women didn’t need a ritual to pass down lineages because they could give birth. There’s a lot of things to consider when it comes to the tradition of the priesthood. Some argue that the blood ritual nature of the Eucharist means it has to be done by men. But we do live in a different societal context. Our society is not generally familiar with the gender-norms surrounding these rituals and that needs to be considered. Are we following tradition for tradition’s sake or are we looking at something more here? Would our society today think that the Eucharist isn’t the literal Body and Blood of Christ if the ritual was performed by a woman? These are all things to consider. Regardless, I think that women need to have more power in the Vatican, whether that come from the priesthood or elsewhere. I really hope that the office of women deacons are restored.

[@michaelcraig9427]

Thank you for this channel brother. It is a blessing to many of us at this time. On this matter I respectfully disagree. But then I am ordained in a branch of the Church that has ordained women to the eldership since the late 1960's and to the ministry of word and sacrament since the early 70's. I have experienced great blessing from these sisters in Christ. I trust that the Holy Spirit was involved. An Anglican sister taught me how to preside at an Anglican altar. I respect those who remain loyal to the Churches teaching on this. And I respect those who remain within the Church who are eager for change. Blessings to you all from Simon's Town, South Africa.

[@windsongshf]

In the secular world, I'm 100% on board for woman to take on any role. But one thing I'm attracted to the Catholic church is the hierarchy and different roles men and women play. Perhaps having grown up with a father... I like seeing a "father" as head of his household/church.

[@Jay_v.7]

Man I'd like to sit down and have a nice conversation with you about many things.

[@Jay_v.7]

I'm only 17, and I have many questions that I don't to just ask anyone. My parents try to explain along with showing me another priest but many things still don't make sense, and I know there are many things that take faith because its not always going to make sense, but I still want a solid explanation. A lot of the times I feel like I don't get one about any of my questions, like its not the full explanation that's there's more to everything.

[@Jay_v.7]

@@ruairi_d it would.

[@Jay_v.7]

@@cheeseymanish I don't even know where to begin. I have my own Bible my parents gifted it to me and I enjoy studying it. I love reading it I really want to understand why I'm catholic, why there are certain traditions, I can't speak to my local priest at the moment New York city doesn't seem like it wants to open its churchs at all.

[@Denise23451]

Jason Valerio I am glad you have questions at such a young age. Apologetics is the route you should take. Patrick Madrid has some great books as well as Scott Hahn. Although, if you ever have any questions? You could post them here, I know anyone on here would be glad to help you with them😃

[@jeremiahong248]

@@Jay_v.7 Perhaps you may like to find out from Catholic Answers?

[@SharonCullenArt]

Although I prefer a male priest if for nothing else, it is a comfort for me and a preference, aren’t we all forgetting that women of that time were homemakers and nothing else? There were no female rabi’s and that was part of the generation. As things evolved, eventually there were female rabi’s. It is still uncommon for women to hold leadership roles in business in general only because of discrimination in this day and age. Yes women do hold them here and there but it is still more common that a male hold a leadership role, and when a female does get that role her salary is a small percentage of her male counterpart. The way I see it is that Jesus was following a culture of his day and that was it. When he first chose his disciples he chose them as all Rabi’s did and they were male. Then he slowly revealed himself to them. I see this male only thing a silly rule. I respect the church and really don’t care whether or not women can become a priest or deacon. But, I will always hold true to my belief that it wasn’t an intentional thing Jesus did choosing his “men” except that it was cultural. I also feel that we each have a vocation in life and we as God’s children need to focus on trying to become the saint he wants us to be, and not to worry about these things. We should all try to be the best “human” we can be living as Christ lived. I will wake up every morning to start this all over again!

[@miranda4583]

Exactly! I am surprised that no one has taken into consideration that this is the first culture basically ever where women are allowed equal role in general society, outside of the church. Could it not be the case that Jesus, the Apostles, and the Church of the last two thousand years were all working within the culture of the time, rather than laying out an imperative for all time?

[@danieladangelo766]

If Jesus had chosen women he would have exposed them as these were considered inferior at the time and killed for very little

[@MM22272]

How about the privileged position that most women can have: bearing new human life and raising them on the altar of their life as mothers, raising faithful new souls up to God for eternity. For those who would go to Heaven, these mothers could then say: Lord, here are the bodies I bring to You and given up for You and Your glory. For many women, unfortunately, duped by the carrot sticks of feminism - exchanging the transient vain glory of some career, its material and popular glory for the children they may have had and may have raised instead of shuffling their children to be raised by strangers. Small wonder that by the time that many mothers are elderly, their children shuffle their parents off to nursing homes earlier than would otherwise be necessary, because they are chasing the same career dreams. True, some women are single not by choice, though they could marry or re-marry, but many choose the radical solo flight and bear its burdens.

[@awuriefnejqwjmnwn4960]

So called "enlightened free thinkers" on their way to come up with pseudophilanthropic ideas which disobey god and therefore are doomed to fail

[@servouk]

Not to mention the ones using abortion and contraception so that their unborn child doesn't interfere with their career

[@arinrumi]

The same "privilige" that caused most of them to live in abusive marriage or live in culture where they're not allow to do anything other than get husband quickly and bear children?

[@keithe3227]

By the same token, neither can men become nuns.

[@Ignasimp]

Nuns and priests are not equivalent. Nuns and monks and friars are.

[@TheLT704]

Why would a man want to become a nun ??? He is supposed to marry one...

[@emmaduerstock3794]

@@TheLT704 No. Nuns don't marry.

[@TheLT704]

@@emmaduerstock3794 it's an old joke... nun last week..nun this week.. perhaps next week...??? See my new comment...

[@Zartas17]

I say, whenever one involves a top-down approach towards religion the fallacies are spiraling out of control. If on the other hand, one applies a bottom-up approach, every piece falls safely and logically into place.

[@zeph6439]

Thank you for the video, and I appreciate your views concerning the rights of women. "All things have their back to the female and stand facing the male. When male and female combine, all things achieve harmony" ~ Lao Tzu Some may also add that whenever male and female work together, power is doubled :)

[@triroa]

Phoebe may have been called a deacon (diakonos) in Romans, but the same Greek word was used to describe Emperor Nero. It's unlikely that it had the same connotations then as it does today. We have to remain faithful to the Traditions, one of those being a male Diaconate. I'm not a fan of the tendency to (usually baselessly) claim "well the early Church did X" and ignore the other 2000 years of Church history/tradition. People need stability in the rapidly changing modern world, that's one of the reasons people cling to the Church, let's not marry Her to the age, lest She die in the next

[@deaconbilcarter5210]

Agreed! One complicating factor is that the word "deacon" is not just an ecclesial title, but in Greek it is also a generic word meaning "servant". The early Church had many people, men and women, who were servants in ministry. But as Acts of the Apostles demonstrates, only men were sacramentally ordained to clerical status.

[@pintoloyce]

Well yes we must realize that the whole hierarchy of the Church wasn't completely established perfectly in the early church but developed as time went on , also canon 1024 clearly states "A baptized male alone receives sacred ordination validly." I guess this is one thing left out from the video. Therefore, under the current canon law deaconate ordination of women is not allowed.

[@tudormardare66]

Woman deaconesses existed and their role is almost entirely different from that of make deacons. The order of deaconesses existed for a period of time until it became obsolete, and only a way to boost women's pride over other women, as to become a deaconess, the woman had to be over 40 years old, a virgin, and with a high level of faith and morality.

[@deaconbilcarter5210]

@@pintoloyce The hierarchy was there from the earliest days. We define hierarchy as the authority of the clergy, and the clergy consist of bishops, priests and deacons. bishops were established by Christ in the naming of the Apostles. Likewise, Christ established the modern priesthood at the Last Supper when he washed the feet of the Apostles. This was a sign of preparation for priestly ministry. Finally, those very bishops (apostles) ordained the first deacons. That structure hasn't changed. Incidentally, the very word "hierarchy" literally means "a structure of priests". "Hiero-" is a Greek prefix meaning priests or priestly (hieroglyphics - the picture writing of the Egyptian priests) and "-archy" means "structure", as in "architecture". Therefore, a leadership model is implied in the very establishment of the clerical order.

[@rudybernal7735]

The BIBLE states DO NOT FOLLOW TRADITION. Every Catholic follows 99% tradition and 1% BIBLE.

[@claraartnow6645]

I kinda accept that Jesus' apostles were all men, and that our tradition comes from the patriarchy. I just have a big doubt; one of the reasons you mentioned was because the Church doesn't feel it has the authority to decide this. But the apostles in the first Council of Jerusalem decided something transcendental and of upmost importance: decided that circumcision was no longer necessary for the salvation of gentile men. I don't know if the apostles thought about this temporarily, but it hasn't changed since, and circumcision is something very important. I'm not gonna start a fight for this issue, but I just feel openminded about women's priesthood, and I feel I need a deeper reason to deny women's priesthood, and I don't understand either why women can't have other ordinations like deaconate right now... I don't want it to be because of sexism (let's not deny that there is sexism in the church)... 🤔 Bear in mind that, at least in my country, priests use to have the help of a woman or some women in the parish for some works on the church too.

[@allyinherit7872]

I think you should read 1 Corinthians chap 24 verse 34

[@claraartnow6645]

@@allyinherit7872 Sorry I can't find the passage. Could you send me a link to the passage of the Bible? 🙏

[@allyinherit7872]

@@claraartnow6645 I'm sorry dear I meant chapter 14:34

[@claraartnow6645]

@@allyinherit7872 Thanks! I disagree with Paul in this particular letter, and here's my reasoning. I understand from the context that we can't apply this nowadays. I think Paul (as well as other Apostles) had a certain mentality, very rooted from the jewish traditions that we don't have now. This kind of mentality of the time, for example, put christians from gentile origins below judeo-christians. You can see an example also in the episode of Saint Peter and Cornelius (a christian from pagan origins) in acts chapter 10 and 11. Back then jews weren't allowed to eat with non-jews or stay at their homes. Women had also an unequal treatment, for example in the Resurrection the Apostles didn't believe Mary Magdalene (Mark 16:9-20) or that servant who announced Peter's freedom (Acts 12:6-19). But we know that the firsts witnesses of Christ's Resurrection were women, and that the Holy Spirit came to Cornelius: God doesn't make distinction with persons. That's why I believe we can't apply what Paul says to nowadays. Aside from that, I don't mind that Priesthood is only assigned to man. It just bothers me, how can we women serve the Church from the hierarchy, like others? What's our responsibility?

[@JuanmaAmagliani]

@Collins Anosike well, no. But you don't see the names of Sts. Joaquim and Anna, nor the formation of monastic orders, nor the use of the cross as an identity symbol and you know, a long et cetera. We Catholics recognize tradition and the magisterium of the Church as valid sources of faith. So women not being priests in the Bible doesn't mean that it is automatically forbidden, the reasoning behind that has to be found somewhere else

[@judylindstrom2100]

If women’s ordination is closed even into the future, doesn’t this mean that the Church isn’t open to the promptings of the Holy Spirit who might surprise us?

[@Bgpr48]

Don't forget that priests are "in persona Christi", so that means they are marrying the Church (their bride). Obviously, a woman cannot marry a bride.

[@skimilym]

Please remember that the Eastern Churches, both Catholic and Orthodox, have married priests. They are not being adulterous. Don't take the image of marriage too far.

[@josephlennertz6363]

Please. You belong in this church with that opinion. So does This priest.

[@darlameeks]

St. Paul says there is no male or female in Christ Jesus. Gender isn't important at all when referring to roles within the church, as gender is obliterated in Christ. In the Resurrection, there will be no marrying or giving in marriage, as we shall all be as the angels in heaven (no gender).

[@Bgpr48]

@@josephlennertz6363 Friend, what do you mean?

[@Bgpr48]

@@skimilym Friend, it is only an analogy. It is not meant to be taken literally. It is only in accordance with the analogy of a Bride/Groom that Christ and the Bible speak of all the time, when describing our relationship with God.

[@sassulusmagnus]

The fact that some theologians "believe" a teaching to be infallible doesn't make it so. The fact that the Pope and the College of Cardinals held back, quite correctly, from declaring this teaching infallible is very telling. To take another example, the rule of mandatory celibacy for priests, now considered traditional in the Church, was not formally adopted until the 12th century, and not broadly accepted in the Church until centuries after that. The nonessential tradition of priestly celibacy was intended to address a problem in the Church at that time. Some nonessential traditions may have expiry dates. Catholic Christianity is a beautiful expression of the Faith, but there is a tendency in the Catholic Church to veer in the direction of idolizing its own institutions. The time may or may not be right for female ordination, but that doesn't mean the Holy Spirit won't prompt the Church in that direction. If that were to happen, would the Church respond, or would she cling to her own nonessential traditions instead?

"nonessential"...who defines that, you? Freaking liberals, you are more poisonous than atheists.

[@SaintCharbelMiracleworker]

Re: celibacy. I don't know why people are wilfully ignorant of the Eastern Catholic Church. We have at least 250million Eastern Catholics who are in full communion with Rome, their priests are allowed to be married. Priests from the Western Catholic Church imitate Christ, He was not married and He was celibate. Jesus also said in Matthew 19:12 that "there are those who choose to live like eunuchs for the sake of the kingdom of heaven. The one who can accept this should accept it."

[@iippaa5184]

I'm a Lutheran priest from Finland and yes, a woman. And yes, it still raises some form of dispute still in my country and church. I only ask, why the Holy Spirit gives women the vocatio interna if it should be for nothing? Of course, every woman feeling the call could be wrong and selfish or something and understand the message from God in a wrong way, but I think that as a brother in ministry you know that it is a very cruel thing to say to anyone. I found your channel just recently and I enjoy it very much. May God bless you and your work!

[@jp_the_ai_guy]

That doesn't make it untrue. Though I think a more compassionate way of revealing this to the young girl courting this feeling is highly required.

[@Nurichiri]

I find it interesting that our Blessed Mother was specifically said to have been in the room with the apostles at Pentecost. Afterwards she is never mentioned again. I wonder what she did with her second dose of the Holy Spirit (the first being at the Annunciation).

[@MissyJ]

The first Marian Apparition happened while she was still alive. My guess is she spent a lot of time in prayer- being there for those who needed her.

[@davinciandiversity8823]

The celebration of the Assumption/ Dormition talks about her passing, so I believe tradition states she simply lived peacefully in Judea until her end.

[@Montfortracing]

Nurichiri, have you seen the movie Full of Grace? It's about Mary's life right before her Assumption. I think it's based on some writings from 1st century Christianity.

[@marountayar2831]

She taught saint Luke what he later wrote about the annunciation and Jesus`s infancy and probably many other things. And maybe ( probably too ) she also taught saint John because remember that she was living with him...

[@akirahojo2]

Not sure how much of this is conspiracy theory but I had read many years ago from religious history enthusiasts that early Christians were led by many women however there was a conflict amongst the Apostles about this in particular between Peter and James, with Peter winning the argument and thus women leaders were eventually marginalized within the church. One interesting argument was many of the early converts specially from pagans were women because early Christianity apparently treat women more equally than what we now have in the church. Take it with a grain of salt but I always wonder how different the church was in the first 200-300 years.

[@wayne96707]

I was waiting for you to reference Saint JP II “Theology of the Body” where he explains it so beautifully, and sensibility. Now days the younger generations won’t give in to “because that’s how it’s always been done” sort of answer. They need a deeply rooted explanation... “Theology of the Body” has it.

[@MegaGraceiscool]

Thanks Wayne. I'm researching Catholicism and I keep running into the tradition fallacy, which does nothing for me. I'll check out Theology of the Body

[@juanchicruz6551]

@@MegaGraceiscool How is a fallacy? If your town eats goldfish for centuries that's not a fallacy, that's a tradition. One of the points of the Church is also tradition

[@juanchicruz6551]

@@nothanks6549 I do know about the fallacy, but this one is not as the Catholic Faith is also based on Tradition, so it must keep being that way because one of the pillars of the Catholic Faith is Tradition This Tradition is only regarding to Faith and not other types of values which may change or not, and go on or not according to Catholic belief In this topic must be understand that something may be that something because it keeps being in one way or having those characteristics. We cannot say Sumerians must have different characteristics today (hypothetical case they were alive) and differ totally as how they were before because they wouldn't be Sumerians Some things may be allowed to change and others not depending on what that group is. If it were not, they wouldn't be themselves. This is antrophology. If Catholic Faith can't be based also in Tradition, then it is not Catholic Faith

[@linlouwho123]

As a lifelong Catholic, I love when men justify no women priests. There is no justification for this. There is NO command for this. The church is a boy’s club and the church does HUGE damage to women by maintaining this posture. Women have no voting power in the church. That is wrong and it sends a very strong message. I know that you love to say women have a different “role”. People have been leaving the Catholic church is waves. I have taught my children the equality of women and it’s really difficult to say that the church is doing the right thing when it is so egregiously wrong on this subject. My adult children have all left the the church because the just can’t accept this injustice. Jesus only picked men is a pretty flimsy argument- come on now. Jesus was radical for his time. It’s time for the church to be radical and just and be a beacon of hope for women instead of perpetuating a double standard. We need to truly live in the divine instead of selfish male desires.

[@fraochoco]

beautifully worded!

[@johnmiller7769]

Cry more

[@generizze6243]

Wut.

[@RafaEl-ne5ip]

So the apostles and The Lord himself were wrong, and you are right?

[@DenisOhAichir]

Jesus was radical yes and only chose men.

[@mariepositano4366]

I was surprised that you didn't mention "in persona Christi"

[@_MysticKnight]

@Felipe Parra While we use male pronouns for God, God is not male. He doesn't not have a sex since he does not have a body other than in the person of Jesus Christ. Some passages in the Bible refer to God in a feminine sense like as a mother or as wisdom personified 'sophia' (which is female).

[@_MysticKnight]

@Ian Jesus is male, because Jesus is both human and God. Do not fall into heresy of monophysitism. Strictly speaking, God the Son is not male since God does not have a sex or gender. Remember, "God the Son" is used because it is relational to the Father; that is, Jesus compares his relationship to the Father like a human father and son.

[@davinciandiversity8823]

@ian From the Catholic and Orthodox perspective, Christ fundamentally maintains two distinct natures. He is both entirely man and entirely God. What this means is that Christ was subject to the entirety of the human condition, meaning he had to work, hunger, face temptation, and yes, have a physical and gendered body. Christ’s nature is quite complicated when you delve into the deep theological components of the classical understanding of who he was, but it can be said that Christ reserved special roles for both men and women and the priesthood and all orders of ordination are reserved for men.

[@darlameeks]

@@davinciandiversity8823 By what you say, women cannot even be saved through God's divine grace, because they are female. Salvation, then, is only for men in Catholicism? All women are designated for hell? Or perhaps we are nothing but beasts who have no sentience and go down to the dust when we die? We know the medieval Catholic theologists held that women have only 1/3 of a soul. Is this your view? This seems more inherited from the Greek pagans, who named women as nothing more than "walking wombs".

[@_MysticKnight]

@Ian That still does not change the fact that Jesus is Christ. Jesus was not just a 'guy who lived on one planet' but he is also God. Christ either refers to Jesus, as a person or the title of 'Christ' which just means messiah or anointed one, which is used almost exclusively as Jesus's title. I can not understand how you can reasonably separate the two.

[@thesinfultictac5704]

My grandma, who part of the Oakland Parish actually was very involved with her Parish, she was an Usher and several other positions. My father said that it was said around her parish that "that she would have became a deacon if it was allowed"

[@alhilford2345]

Women can play an important part in parish life, but they cannot be priests or deacons.

[@ModernEphemera]

@@alhilford2345 The Church doesn’t currently allow women deacons, but the justification isn’t as strong. There were women deacons (deaconesses) in the early Church (but never women priests). By the Middle Ages, deacon was just a stepping stone to becoming a priest, but again, that was not the case in the early Church. Like Father Casey says, there’s reasons to believe the Church may decide to allow deaconesses while continuing to disallow women priests.

[@dwightschrute900]

@@ModernEphemera They were not sacramentally. They were used to help women get baptized.

[@dylanstuckey3824]

@@ModernEphemera the permanent diaconate was still around in the Middle Ages and even past the counsel of Trent. But I think it died out by Vatican 1. That’s why Vatican 2 again called for a renewal of the permanent diaconate.

[@jayciethompson2290]

Im part of the church of jesus christ of latter day saints. I found your channel and thought it was interesting to learn about catholics.

[@josephryan5949]

In my youthful days, I was an Altar boy. It was a position of privilege. We boys knew it and were proud of it. The girls could only look on in envy. At least, I presume they were envious. Consideration of their feelings would have been the furthest thing from our minds at that stage. We had more important things to worry about, like, whose turn was it to serve at the next wedding or funeral. Both days guaranteed a big pay-out, and we looked forward to both with similar eagerness.Eventually, my friends and I outgrew the surplice and soutane, and passed on our trade to the next generation of young men. On it went, this grand old tradition, until one fine day, there came a shock to the system ; girls appeared behind the Altar rails !First, there were one or two, but very soon, they practically took over the show. I guess they were making up for lost time. The boys, their 'special' status now a thing of the past, seemed to lose heart and almost disappeared from the scene.Indeed, it took a long time for things to balance out, and longer still for old warriors like myself and my childhood companions to accept the new scenario.However, while those memories will always be precious to us, we learned to live with the new reality, and if any of us have a daughter today, we would surely shed a tear of joy, to see her dressed in her surplice and soutane, serving Mass, behind the Altar rails.

[@deaconbilcarter5210]

What you describe is the very clericalism we are called to avoid. Just because a group of boys are lording their position over girls doesn't mean the girls deserve the position, too. it means those boys DON'T deserve it. They see it as an avenue to make money and to be held in esteem.

[@felisd]

Your altar boys got paid to serve at weddings or funerals?? In my church, it was all voluntary service. And honestly, from what I saw in my generation of altar servers, the priests started inviting girls to become servers because there weren't enough boys to do the job.

[@josephryan5949]

@@felisd Not really getting paid as such. More like a tip really, but it became a tradition. Nobody was going to get rich out of it, but it was one of the perks of the job.

[@dylanstuckey3824]

@@deaconbilcarter5210 exactly right. The Church allows girls to be altar servers but it doesn’t mean it’s good or it’s fitting. Being an altar server is preparation for holy orders. It seems to me like it would just confuse the young girls that become altar servers.

[@Poppy10years]

@ Joseph Ryan. Isn’t this how progress happens. The horrors of recent church history are because old habits and male privilege is clung on to by a frightened powerful group. Look what is happening with Bp Olsen in Fort Worth Texas. Please open your hearts and see how unfair the Church is to over 50% of the population.

[@WashingtonDC99]

I am a Hispanic Traditional Catholic woman who does not approved the Priesthood of women. The only thing in our historic church that I think women stay away from is Priesthood. Anything else is okay with me. We must continue preserving and respecting our 2,020 years of tradition. God is always good. I pray to God to allow me to die before witnessing our traditional Catholic Church being ignore by wickedness. God loves. God bless you. 🙏🙏💪💪👼😇🤓😎❤️❤️💙💙

[@jaqian]

@J Sheeba LGBT have rights. Being married in a church isn't a right.

[@dylanstuckey3824]

God bless you Marjorie

[@ranitafeliz2987]

says the woman that 99% sure only attends novus ordo masses. tradition only dies when it meets effortlessness and making things easier it seems! so mysterious!

[@wilsondaily826]

As an Episcopalian (the predominant American Anglican church, for those unfamiliar) with a mother who's a priest, I've always questioned the Catholic stance. This video helps me understand that, but I still wonder: is the history of women in the church, a precedent cited by the church for continuing with male-only ordination, not distorted by a misogynistic past? Not particularly by the church, but by broader society in general. The precedent is established in eras of gender-based power disparities, so it seems to me that considering it as a precedent that ought not be altered doesn't take into account the social context of that precedent.

[@c.m.cordero1772]

I went to a Protestant college and I really miss the female pastors and priests. I still call them up sometimes for counseling, as well as a female rabbi who is an old friend of mine from my younger days. Male priests are useless in many situations.

[@crusaderACR]

Social context is not relevant at all. Jesus, if anything, bent 99% of social paradigms of His era, as naturally He was beyond such things. Jesus was, is, and will be forever. The Church has no authority to bend the Will of Jesus, Our God, and it's absurd to even consider God's morality to be subject to things such as time, place or social context.

[@FrenchGalante]

Pope John Paul ll has declared once and for all, that "he was not authorized by Christ to ordain women".

[@mouseandryforever6848]

This is one of my major sticking points when it comes to the church. I was baptized in 1969 into the Catholic Church and I feel that I belong to the church but I don't go to church and I don't do confession and I feel in many ways left out. I also watched a great movie about the changes that Vatican too brought about regarding nuns. Cutting out the nuns role is a death blow to the church. Women also want to serve and I think having nuns at every Church and having a mother and a father is the way forward for the church.

[@jaqian]

If you aren't going to confession and mass you are leaving yourself out. Being Christian is about being part of a community. Nuns are still active in the church we have nuns in our parish and they are very involved.

[@MM22272]

@@jaqian 1000%

[@richlopez5896]

Nobody has cut nuns out. There's tons of them. Sounds like you are leaving yourself out by intentionally not going to Mass or Confession. Women serve numerous functions in the Church.

[@rorypinata265]

You should go to Mass and confession, you'll help shape the Church how you see fit. If you're unmarried become a nun. If you're married encourage your daughters to become nuns.

[@seniitaiao2656]

Lukewarm catholics😢

[@joakoherrera]

Brother Casey! In July is my diserniment experience in Mexico. Thanks for all your videos and books!

[@thecanadianmacadamian3018]

Good luck, God bless!!!

[@josea.colonmedina275]

May God bless and enlighten you in His will. You'll be in my prayers.

[@vincentinchoco5625]

I will for you now that God will enlighten you. Amen.

[@frcyriloffiongsdv3707]

@@fadaoluoma96Hello people, please know that this is a fake account and this imposter is not the Fr. Oluoma whose picture you see on this account. Fr. Oluoma is a popular Catholic priest and has his personal Facebook and KZbin accounts. You can contact him if you need to confirm. I am surprised that KZbin will allow such fraud. The wording of this fraudulent request reveals the fact that no Catholic Priest will ask for money or any support in this way. Please do not fall for this fraud and scam. Thanks.

[@jamesoconnor7143]

Comment by Carmencita; The apostles were men; prists represent Christ and the Apostles. Why are some women so determined to go against everything? There are many ways in which they are already helping; by being nuns, etc.

[@beatrizm.4361]

Father, I ask for prayer for the conversion of my family. Congratulations on the video. You are very wise. God bless. (sorry for the english, I am using google translate)

[@modestoca25]

Couldn't Mary Magdelene be considered an apostle and therefore legitimize women being priests?

[@BreakingInTheHabit]

Some argue this, yes.

[@paulb3507]

@@BreakingInTheHabit Couldn’t a woman deliver a homily at least? Mary Magdalene was the first person to proclaim the resurrection

[@ssshadowwolf6762]

So glad you said this as I was fixing to .

[@andrewolson8792]

@@BreakingInTheHabit They were Legit the first with the Good News (of the resurrection)

[@Noone765]

No

[@Slovakson1]

Ooooh, that's a tough one. Amazingly, Suprisingly well handled. Your humility on the issue was the key.

[@vinnygi]

So, we’re using the “this is the way we’ve always done it” argument to prevent women from being priests, hence bishops, cardinals or popes. Sounds an awful lot like “separate but equal” in that “equal” doesn’t actually mean equal.

[@zarathustrap2562]

Priests represent Christ in the Church, and Christ was a male. Equal doesn't mean same role.

[@mchristr]

The issue is salvific. One who truly doesn't believe the Gospel will look elsewhere for their foundational identity. If the ultimate worth offered at the Cross of Christ is rejected, the default position turns to the culture for a definition of human value. It should be obvious that the whimsical nature of culture provides no solid footing.

[@stayathomemarine]

Wow YES!! Couldn't have said it better.

[@sariputraa]

mary magdalena was the first to see christ after his death. women were there, with important roles, but constantin decided to filter the sources and erase their presence.

[@patricksoares6253]

Oh, c'mon!

[@srfrg9707]

Explain me how saint Constantine managed to erase the said sources from the Ethiopian Church, the Malabar Church in India and all the Churches that were not in the Roman empire etc...

[@toresanderify]

What about if Jesus only used men because people only listened to men at that time. Now it is a modern time and people have changed. If God really has made man and women equal with the same abilities, there should be no reason not to ordain women.

[@jonathanstensberg]

I would just like to point out that this proposition directly accuses Jesus of committing sin.

[@lizbueding2626]

@@jonathanstensberg Not at all. The human Jesus was a creature of His time and culture, just as we are creatures of the 21st century.

[@jakehibbard5409]

I’m Presbyterian (PCUSA). We believe women can preach and gay people can marry. #Reformed

[@JustSoLeopard]

I have no problem with women being priests. I'm a Catholic and I get tired of hearing about the priest shortage in the world when women are still not considered. I also find it odd that a woman can only receive six sacraments.

[@georgepierson4920]

The Church is the bride of Christ. Jesus is the groom. The priest acts in the person of Jesus Christ.

[@heavychevy396]

I believe that if the Holy Spirit calls a woman to the priesthood the church is in grave error if it denies that calling.

[@ani_n01]

They go around it by offering women to join the nuns

[@patricksoares6253]

Sorry, but it's just your opinion. I'm not despising it, but the Church is not moved by people's opinions, and will never be.

[@ani_n01]

@@patricksoares6253 it literally is. People who make up those canons are...... Wait for it..... People

[@patricksoares6253]

@@ani_n01 Except it is guided by the Holy Ghost. If you don't believe I'm sorry. You may not give your opinion about the Catholic Church. And no, the canon can't be altered by the opinions of layman, priests, bishops or popes.

[@heavychevy396]

@@patricksoares6253 The Episcopal Church has been blessed with women priests and bishops for over 40 years now. Like the Catholic Church the ordination of women to the priesthood was resisted rigidly for years with the same reasoning. Let’s all agree that the Holy Spirit is still at work in the Church today. We need to be prayerfully open to His will and not close our minds to the One who gives us wisdom and understanding.

[@avaphilson7243]

Maybe Jesus only chose men because of the treatment of women in that time period. We all know women's rights were not the most popular two thousand years ago. It's like the talk of slavery in the bible. It was appropriate then and is inappropriate now. Women being ordained should be viewed in that way also.

[@konyvnyelv.]

I agree. Above all, a Catholic can't consider Muslims as sexist. I imagine they reason in a similar way.

[@alhilford2345]

Jesus chose men because that was God's plan.

[@cabzxs]

This is wrong. You seem to misunderstand Jesus, his apostolate and his mission. Jesus did all sorts of things that went against the accepted norms of the time, several of which included women. That Jesus and the apostles did not choose women as priest, yet women were integral to the early church, is a testament to the nature of the priestly office.

[@bafimto]

@Texas Οὐκ ἔνι ἄρσεν καὶ θῆλυ· πάντες γὰρ ὑμεῖς εἷς ἐστὲ ἐν χριστῷ Ἰησοῦ.

[@bafimto]

@@cabzxs At which moment do you find Jesus choosing only men as priests? What about Gal 3:28? What about Phoebe the deaconess in Rom 16:1 What about Junia in Rom 16:7 being called the Apostle (some manuscripts had tried to change this woman's name to Junias - but such man's name does not exist in Greek)?

[@williammcenaney1331]

Father seems to ignore some important points. First, during most Traditional Latin Masses, the priest reads the Bible readings because he represents Christ, His authority, and the Church's authority. So by allowing lay lector, extraordinary Eucharistic ministers, and inventing the permanent diaconate the Church blurred the distinction between priests and the laity. Second, during theTraditional Latin Mass, the priest holds the sacred Host with his thumbs and his forefingers because a bishop consecrated them. Laymen hold the Blessed Sacrament with un-consecraated fingers instead. Third, extraordinary ministers can unwittingly promote sacrilege or suggest that the consecrated species merely represent Christ's Body and His Blood. Years ago, after a lay person hated a layman the Blessed Sacrament, he turned away from her, dropped it Into his breast pocket, and walked back to his pew. If a Catholic can get away with that, how easily could a Satanist take a Host to desecrate it at a Black Mass? At another vernacular Mass, I knelt in my pew where I bowed my head partly because I receive only the Host. A woman aimed a chalice at my mouth and asked whether I wanted some wine. That question probably was in innocent mistake. But if she didn't believe in the Real Presence, she shouldn't have been an extraordinary "ministerette." Someone even dropped a consecrated Host and left it on the floor where an usher's service dog could have eaten it. No one picked up the Blessed Sacrament, even after I kept pointing at it. Fourth, the priest. celebrates Holy Mass in the person of Christ. He sands in for Our Lord. So you might say Christ borrows the priest's hands and his voice. Christ. is the Catholic Church's bridegroom and she is his bride. So if a "priestess" celebrated Mass, it would be like a "lesbian marriage." Fifth, since Pope John Paul II ruled out ordaining women, it's unfair to let girls serve Holy Mass. Altar boys serve Mass, partly because the Church wants to attract them to thee priesthood. So since women can't recewiv the Sacrament of Holy Orders, altar girls may get false hope. In the Homiletic and Pastoral Review, a writer said that after altar girls began serving Mass, boys stopped volunteering to do that because they wanted altar service to be just for them. Last, two mental illnesses and my cerebral palsy disqualify me for the priesthood. But that's fine with me, though. Since God gives people their religious vocations, I have no God-given right to become a priest. Knowing what I know, I'd be sinfully proud to try to. be one. Catholics should remember Acts 5:29 when it says that we should obey God when we need to choose between doing that and obeying other people. My moral obligations determine my right. So since God hasn't called me to be priest, I have no God-given right to be one. Now. you know partly why I always attend the Traditional Latin Mass instead of Pope Paul VI's rite of Mass.

[@servouk]

spot on with all these points

[@williammcenaney1331]

@@servouk Thank you. That's reassuring.

[@jaredxtian1]

If the Church has no authority to ordain women to the priesthood, where does the church get its authority to declare that priests should live a life of celibacy? Peter was married. Early priests and even bishops were married according to the bible. So is it not God's will that priests and bishops should be allowed to be married? The fact that they are now to be celibate speaks to the Church's authority to declare it so, despite what the bible says. So, shouldn't the Church have the same authority to declare that women can be ordained to the priesthood. Using the argument that Jesus chose 12 men to be apostles may also lead to the conclusion that all priests should come from the Jewish faith since all the apostles were Jews. Biblical exegesis will point out that Jesus chose 12 Jewish men because choosing a pagan at that time would kill his message before it even took root. It is the same with women. Jesus did not choose women because, at that time, women had no status in society. No. the traditional reason which the Church gives for not ordaining women is that priests are "In persona Christi" and because Christ was a man, his priests should all be men. But the age-old weakness to this argument is that the Church, in not ordaining women, is saying that the Church cannot see the person of Christ in women. It is only a matter of time. The worldwide priest shortage will see to that. What makes a Roman Catholic a Roman Catholic is our belief in the True Presence in the transubstantiated bread and wine. When the time comes when there are no longer enough priests to do the Eucharist, the Church will have to look at options.

[@steveonmareisland5268]

@ Jose Babiera: Fallacy #1: Having a celibate clergy is a matter of Church discipline, not of the discernment of God's will, or if you prefer, correct dogma. The Roman church had married priests for centuries; for various historical reasons that didn't work out very well, and for various theological reasons the Latin Church decided it was not a good idea to continue. The Orthodox and the Eastern Uniate Chuches still have married clergy, where the local culture has supported the idea from time immemorial. But note that the priest must be married before he takes orders. An ordained man may not marry even in those traditions. In this matter their theology is consistent with the Latin Church's. Fallacy #2: The supposed inferior status of women in society had nothing to do with Jesus' choice of men as apostles. First of all, the status of women in the Jewish world was significant; after all, descent (and hence membership in God's Chosen People) was calculated through the female line. Second, in the pagan religions, it was commonplace for women to be way more prominent than men. They were typically the oracles (as at Delphi), or the shamans, or the most sacred ministers (as with the Vestals). And in the early years of the Church, the first thing any enterprising group of heretics did was ordain a bunch of women. The ancient world expected women to take the lead in many matters religious. Fallacy #3: That the God-Man who came among us to change the world was somehow subject to certain simple-minded prejudices in the world, and was unwilling to defy them or set them straight is an idea so absurd it's only necessary to spell it out to see the ridiculousness of it. Fallacy #4: the masculinity of the priest is a significant symbol of the priest's action "in persona Christi", but it is not the only one, and anyway the idea of "in persona Christi" is a category of priestly action, not of gender alone. Your premise that this is the justification for a male priesthood too simplistic. Fallacy #5: You're implying God's not smart enough to see He needs to do better recruiting, so we have to change the rules to make it easier for Him. Again, to state this is to refute it.

[@jaredxtian1]

@@steveonmareisland5268 Fallacy#1 - my point here is that the Church did have the authority to have a celibate priesthood, just like the church has the authority to ordain women. how can you prove that an all-male priesthood is God's will? In the early church, before what we know as the mass became reality, early christians had house churches where they would break bread (forerunner of our eucharist) and the one who would lead the worship service and initiate the breaking of bread was the host. and at times the host was a hostess. Fallacy #2 -- not true when it comes to the Jewish world. Women can not serve as witnesses, and the fact that the resurrected Christ appeared first to a woman shows Jesus entrusting the good news to a woman. also, jesus entrusted the good news to another woman...a samaritan. to the end of his life, 3 women stayed till the end. the apostles fled in hiding. Jesus rewarded women's faith and loyalty by revealing the good news to them first. if we talk about god's will, based on Jesus' words and actions, god's will is that women should have positions of leadership in the church. Fallacy #3 - you are right. jesus was not subjected to the prejudices in the world. as i stated in fallacy #2, he defied convention and for this reason if we discern god's will, i believe that it was jesus' will to have women in positions of leadership in his church. the problem is you are focusing on the fact that he chose 12 men. i'm focusing on the fact that he entrusted the good news first to women. Fallacy # 4 - the best justification is the simplest one. This has been the official teaching. i'm struck by your first words...the masculinity of the priest is a significant symbol of the priest's action (whatever the heck that means, hehehe). masculinity??? have you seen today's priests??? Fallacy # 5 - no way am i implying that. i'm saying...not implying...that the CHURCH is too stubborn to see that she needs to do better recruiting. it all boils down to your first argument...is it god's will? catholic apologists will say it is based on the fact that jesus chose 12 men. i believe that it is arrogance to conclude that it's god's will based on this alone. the fact is jesus never said he wanted an all-male priesthood. heck, he never claimed that he was god! we believe jesus is god because of the tradition of the early church and later defined as dogma by the council of nicea. based on what jesus said and who he said it to, i believe that it was and is god's will that women should be allowed to the presbyterate.

[@jaredxtian1]

@@steveonmareisland5268 1 last thing. i believe in the church's infallibility in matters of faith and morals. this infallibility is declared when the pope declares something ex cathedra OR when the magisterium declares it infallible within a church council. the prohibition of ordaining women cannot be infallible because it neither falls under the category of faith or morals. the church is a living entity. it is not static. it is because of the spirit who renews the church time and time again. this spirit of god is the source of continuing revelation and the correction of errors made by the church. and i believe, someday, this same spirit of god will correct this unjust error that has been perpetuated against women.

[@islandbest5837]

Men and women compliment each others not competing

[@patricksoares6253]

Perfect

[@deb9806]

Not always. Even the difference in what priests can do and how sisters/nuns were set up, wasn't fair. They have more freedom, money and power. Nuns have to ask permission for things, many orders had poor health care and elderly services and they worked their tails off for the priests and schools and public while they priests had much more given to him and freedom to travel and make some rules for his parish. I never saw it complimentary, I saw a hierarchy that wasn't always fair.

[@anthonyadams8668]

It should be noted that this is the Roman Catholic Church that is referred, not the Catholic Church. Who was present at the crucifixion, the women. Who was the resurrection revealed to First? The women. They have always held an important position in the Catholic Church just not the Roman Catholic church

[@dstinnettmusic]

But Jesus also chose women. The early church just edited this out. This is why I am an Episcopalian, scripture, tradition and reason guiding us towards God’s will. Women make fine priests.

[@jakebakey1]

Proud to be your brother and thankful for your wisdom Father. May Christ be with your spirit and the Holy Spirit guide you so that you may guide us to him and for him Amen. Keep up the amazing work for the kingdom!!!

[@alextopno332]

You have no right to call a priest a father. He is ordained as a priest and so to be called

[@VitoVeccia]

Only men being priests is just as important, as it is for only woman being able to become pregnant, and bear children....so long as you don't live in California.

[@walterroberts5694]

So, why is pope Francis playing around with the idea of consecrating women to the priesthood, starting by "ordaining" them as Deacons. Are there not enough MEN to be ordained as Deacons. Is the Church DRYING up where vocations are concerned. Is this a Chastisement of God? How did Pope Francis ALLOW Pachamama to come into the hallowed grounds of the Vatican and more so into St Peter's Basilica? And, he himself was SEEN praying to this Amazon IDOL. Is Satan influencing the holy father to destroy the Church by his LIBERATION Theology??

[@Artemisarrowzz]

That's like asking if water is wet. Pope Francis is a NWO heretic impostor.

[@loric4550]

Where I live in PA, YES! in less than 10 years, we will only have Sacramental Priests who come in on the weekends. We will not have Parish Priests. They are all dying off and not enough men are replacing them.

[@ppaaccoojrf]

Ridiculous bs that betray you didn't even watch the video.

[@utamihalliday2995]

As Catholic women, we could support the church in so many ways. We have an important role in our family as a praying pole. A Catholic family can stay faithful in their faith because of our constant prayers for our husband and children. In this world situation where the fast development of another religion and their teaching is so overwhelming, our prayers for our families for the sake of our Catholic church's future take a very important role. And I am privileged to take up that responsibility. I don't need female priests.

[@EzioAuditoreDaFirenze99]

The apostle Paul says that women shouldn't teach because Eve sinned first, which implies that women are more easily deceived or naieve. As a woman, would you agree or disagree with that statement? Would you entrust justice and recognition of good and evil, and authority, with a woman? And moreover, do you think many of these ultra liberal denominations such as Methodism are perhaps being governed by women with rose tinted glasses? I'm not saying this to the detriment of women. Of course, men are more violent and make more abuses of power, and are impulsive, from my experience. And for this reason God said, it is not good for man to be alone. Of course for drawing these distinctions, in the modern age, this is considered a sexist position. Do you think this is a sexist position?

[@glaceRaven]

Thank you for clearing this up, Fr. Casey. I'd been wondering about this (in part so I could answer the questions of my many non-Catholic friends if they asked about it) but I couldn't get a straight answer until this video. Seems New Advent was not to be trusted in this case. Nor were the few priests claiming that all other roles in the Church are lesser than the priesthood. This was helpful!

[@janettedavis6627]

Are you serious you couldn't answer ? Amazes me how little you Catholics know.

[@worldview730]

I think it also boils down in the end to acceptance

[@leilanigaston8434]

as a catholic i am thankful because i am being enlighten to some issues being thrown by other religion that now i can simply answer them with certainry in defense of my faith again thank you

[@lisamarie5149]

In the Bible, Jesus is called the Bridegroom and His Church is the Bride. If priests are 'in persona Christi' it makes perfect sense that only men are called to the priesthood, as women can't fulfill the role of Bridegroom. It's also been my experience that women are over represented in the average parish. They're lectors, altar servers, cantors and EMHC's. They teach catechism, are principals, teachers, run the choir, run the finances, head ministries, keep the calendar, are on the parish council, etc, etc. Take a look at the staff on any parish website and it's pretty much all women. As a woman, I'd actually prefer to see more men take on some of these roles. We're literally overrun with females!

[@alhilford2345]

AMEN!

[@paumiam8742]

Jesús chose men, but he never forbidded woman to do anything. That's following a rule that does not exist

[@lapun47]

Both women and men can become contemplatives/mystics in any walk of life. Why this clamoring to take on a priestly vocation simply in the name of "equality"?

[@iliya3110]

It's because of the error of feminism that took over the world beginning with communist propaganda in the early 20th century. The enemies of Christ and the Church hate the patriarchy of Christendom (and implicitly, any timeless traditional role that men have always had in society and the family until the 20th century). Most of the indoctrinated feminists of our time don't really have a good understanding as to why they think the way they do, but they've been conditioned from their youth to be feminists - and so they are. It's been a kind of brainwashing. Most Western people think gender equality means women are in charge and men shouldn't lead their families. They think as if feminism is a virtue, but it's quite the opposite. It's against natural law and it's a grave error that is destroying masculinity, the family, and society. It's nothing short of a demonic deception.

[@paolagrando5079]

@@iliya3110 You a bit confused on the feminism.

[@paolagrando5079]

@@iliya3110 What is natural law?

[@Ignasimp]

@@iliya3110 I'm not a feminist. And I think women should be able to be priests. Cathegorysing people as "feminists" instead of counterarguing their arguments only shows your ineptitude. And trying to make it look as if people say this is because of feminism instead of understanding that people can have their own ideas without having to be part of a sociopolitical movement is at least oversimplifying reality.

[@iliya3110]

@@Ignasimp God bless. It's possible not to be an ideologue in identification, but be imbued with a given ideology implicitly, even if it is unintentional because of the culture one grew up in. I am not accusing any given person of being an ideologue, only stating, perhaps with hyperbole, what is the likely reason for this. The bottom line is that it's the infallible teaching of the Church that only men can be priests. It cannot be reformed without breaking away from the apostolic Faith. One can go join a Protestant sect if they want women priests. But if they want the truth they must submit to the authority of Christ given to us through the successors of the [male] Apostles. Catholicism has given the highest honor to women, more than any other society. Catholicism recognizes that all women are equal in dignity to men so this has nothing to do with that. It has everything to do with order. Men are the heads of the family, according to way God has designed it. Similarly Christ is the Bridegroom of the Bride [the Church], according to how God designed it. Christ is the Head of the Church, not the other way around. Similarly, the bishop is the head of his flock, not in a purely existential sense, but in a spiritual AND material sense. Thus he possesses a natural and supernatural authority over the children of God. The priest partakes of the High Priesthood of Christ - which is a divine and, if you want, Jewish mystical priesthood. It is both spiritual and material. By God's design the Old Covenant Jewish priesthood was male. The New Covenant Priesthood in Christ is male, in His human nature, because Christ is male and priests partake of Christ High Priesthood. It's ontologically impossible, on a level we do not fully comprehend, for a woman to be a priest. She can wear his vestments, but that's where it ends. This teaching cannot change. Were it to ever 'change', such a 'church' would fall from the One, Holy, and Apostolic Church.

[@bernabeorig4920]

I'm a Catholic from the Philippines, Viva Iglesia Katolika Apostolika Romana!

[@mason7119]

Also, I understand that the Bible states in Timothy "I do not permit women to teach or to have authority over any man." and that Paul stated in Corinthians "Women should remain silent in Churches. They are not allowed to speak, but must be in submission as the Law says." Now I'm asking the question - Is this still enforce or has it changed because society has changed? Do we follow the Bible to the letter or are some things not longer true such as these passages? I'm asking because it's completely obvious that we have lost the true meanings and understandings of the ancient world and the today's world is crumbling under our "modern" thinking that has been made manifest over the past 150 years. Men's roles are as initiators of love and as servant leaders and women are supposed to respect and honor men first and foremost. This all seems lost in our roles in today's society and seems to be permeating into the Church. Remember, God doesn't change only man and his ideas do.

[@awuriefnejqwjmnwn4960]

Finally someone who gets it. I used to think that way and believe "we know better today" like every postmodernist does. But I eventually realised that the reason the world is in the sad state it is in rn, is because everyone thought they knew better than god.

[@brycev8356]

What about when Paul speaks of women leadership in 1 Timothy 2:12 and 1 Corinthians 11:3

[@TheFeralcatz]

1 Timothy is a good example but i'd be careful with 1 Corinthians. Let's not forget that Christ is indeed equal to God.

[@rudybernal7735]

AMEN,,👍👍👍👍

[@r.j.whitaker]

It was only his opinion. And he actually stated that it was only his opinion.

[@janetm8356]

So first the Church says we have a church in the first place to remain flexible and to be able to make decisions based partly on circumstances. Then the Church tells us, well, we have all these years of tradition, so we can’t change now. Then Pope Francis says he wants to look into having female deacons. How long has he been “studying” this issue? As a life long Catholic, I’ve concluded it’s an old boys club and it’s not going to change. If the sex abuse scandal that has wracked it from one end to the other didn’t tell church leaders that the old boys club wasn’t working, will anything?

[@janetm8356]

Another thing, I’ve heard all my life, and I see it in these comments here, too. It goes like this: why should a woman want to be anything but a mother, the highest calling there is? So let me ask you, why should a man want to be anything but a father, also a very high calling?

[@msudoc]

J D Grow up.

[@rmdodsonbills]

The thing that always gets me about this discussion is that the reasons for not ordaining women are ultimately very circular. Let's take them in reverse order: Item three on the list is, because we've always taught that women can't be ordained and we've always taught that God wants it this way. It's clear that John Paul II was kind of frustrated that people were still arguing about this and was trying to "settle the matter once and for all." But just as the Dred Scott decision attempted to resolve the slavery question under US law, and for very much the same reasons, this approach is bound to backfire. Human nature does not sit well with "because I said so." Item two: The Catholic Church has never ordained women before. But the Catholic Church has been embedded, for it's whole history, in a culture of male dominance. In some ways this is another statement of "because I said so," but more than that, it says that the misogyny of the past has to be perpetuated into the future. That is wildly at odds with the history of church reform. We got rid of papal indulgences as an imminently abuseable aspect of the forgiving powers of the church despite having quite a bit more logical underpinning than the exclusion of women from the priesthood does. We clearly don't have to keep doing things just because that's the way we always have. When was the last time you attended mass in Latin? Item one: all of the preceding can be supported, it is argued, because Jesus only chose men as his apostles as documented in Holy Scripture. But there are several problems with this argument. Problem number one: the gospels were certainly more historical in the modern sense of the world that most of the Old Testament, but it must be understood that the purpose of writing the gospels was primarily as theological teaching and evangelizing documents. Even if the purpose had primarily been a history of the first days of the church, these documents were written many decades after the events they recorded. Would there have been any primary sources to interview or would they have had to rely on an oral tradition? Most likely the latter. Was it important to the story to note the gender of all members of the 70 (or 72) sent out by Jesus in Luke 10? Would that information have survived? And this segues into the second problem. Do we know that Jesus didn't choose any female apostles or commission any for the Mission of the 70? If all we have is the scriptural canon, and if the canon was selected by an all male clergy that necessarily lived in the world they were born into would that canon reflect the selection of women? Would that world have accepted a Gospel that documented how Jesus gave equal status to women? I don't know, but since I believe in a church that is guided by the Holy Spirit, let's give the early bishops the benefit of the doubt, and maybe Jesus really didn't "ordain" any women (that is, since ordination as we know it didn't exist yet, even among the 72 who were commissioned to heal the sick in Luke 10 there weren't any women). Why do you suppose that would be? Jesus was not averse to challenging the social norms of his era, so why *didn't* he choose any women apostles? Could it be that it was a purely pragmatic decision? He was choosing people to minister to a culture that was clearly male dominated so perhaps ordaining women would have been an effort in futility. In which case, well, we don't live in that world anymore. Are we going to take seriously the idea that Jesus gave us the authority to forgive each other's sins on behalf of heaven, but letting women in on that process is beyond the pale? Ultimately this all leads us to the old familiar "God works in mysterious ways/"it's a Mystery"/God's ways are not man's ways. So the argument then becomes, "Well, we know that women are perfectly capable of doing all the things that a priest needs to do, but God has His reasons for excluding women" which not too subtly implies that God knows women are inferior after all for whatever mysterious reason, which I just do not accept. In summary, it's too bad that John Paul II so thoroughly closed the door on female priests, because it does not seem to be well founded in logic or in fact.

[@loganynguyen]

You can't deny that it does imply incapability. That's not a healthy message. You try to ride the line between being offensive and objective. You miss the underlying issue of equality. That's what we wanted to hear about not historical facts.

[@JesusIsLove2512]

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