Women against Women in Holy Orders

This article by a former women priest makes an unassailable traditionalist argument for the keeping of women out of Holy Orders (priesthood and ordination.) Since I have rejoined the church, the argument over whether women should be allowed to be priests is active, so much so that it has now even started to take place in the Roman Catholic Church. 

I have some reflection of my own on this, but the short version (with the longer one to come) is basically that this is a feminist power move, and is all appeals to power and equality, 21st century argumentation.  There is basically no Biblical, traditional, or Apostolic warrant for it.

It also in history has predicated the collapse of mainline churches.  It is hubris to pretend it will not happen to your denomination as well.

There is an appropriate place for women, in Marian theology, parish life, and in monastic life. If you have been in any active parish, it is also commonly run by majority women. 

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