Thank you for understanding Samantha. I'm sorry to say this is the sign of times we are facing now dark age. The catholic is a universal faith but not not like this. Your correct it's a blasphemy

Samantha Mundell the only reason it’s blasphemy is because that woman is a liberal heretic! If she was orthodox like the apostle Junia, pastor (Priscilla/Prisca), or deacon Phoebe there wouldn’t be an issue.

That is why we must pray the rosary to convert those mocking and sin and who do not know God. We must pray for they to recieve discerment

@TheMajic101 The government getting involved in matters of the church or of any religion for that matter is a very dangerous game. Woman can not be preists, end of story. I encourage you to open your bible and do some research.

@TheMajic101 the Catholic CHURCH, the house of God, is a morally higher form of law of government. They are not below the court.

What utter bullcrap. You obviously haven't met ONE female priest. As for "no end of trouble and division ", despite a great deal of prayer, and the invocation of the Spirit to guide the Church into the right and godly result, there were a VERY small number of traitors who, after the VAST majority went with the Holy Spirit's guidance, didn't like not getting their own way, so they stamped their feet, put up two fingers to the Holy Spirit, and scuttled off. And good riddance to them. I guess you were one of them.

***** I think you just proved my point with your rude and idiotic comment.I have met many female Priests and your ignorance is astounding.The numbers now who have left because of this and other issues with in the C of E can be seen everyday in the ever dwindling congregations.Rome offered an alternative to this hysterical view and now by far is largest active church in England.It does not have a daily problem of filling its churches and if the HOLY SPIRIT WAS WITH YOU THAT WOULD BE THE CASE!!!

angelo lopes Actually, with due respect, you are talking absolute nonsense. And frankly, when you offensively say "All the women priests I met seemed more concerned with their RIGHTS than GOD!!! " don't be surprised if those who know better than you correct you in no uncertain terms. You even state that "they were right and the every body else was wrong" when the decision to ordain women was sought for decades through prayer and the invocation of the Spirit for guidance. It seems you can dish out rudeness and offence, but when you are corrected you bleat pathetically about a "rude and idiotic comment". I suggest that if you come out with these insulting and abusive comments that you should expect a correction in no uncertain terms. You say "I have met many female Priests and your ignorance is astounding." Really? As a male Anglican priest, I trained with 17 females who also went on to the priesthood. In my own deanery the majority of priests with whom I work are women. My archdeacon is a woman. Oh... and i am married to a female priest also. So maybe I trump your "I have met many female Priests and your ignorance is astounding" nonsense. The former Catholic ex nazi pope, the one who left under a huge cloud (some say because of his involvement in the child rape cover up), offered a malicious "welcoming" hand to those in the Anglican Church who wanted to join the Roman Catholic ordinariate, becoming priests in the Catholic Church, as a snub against the C of E. Around 470 priests left the Church of England because of the ordination of women. According to the C of E's own website, there are approximately 28,800 clergy including non parish ministry such as prison chaplains. This means the percentage who left are a paltry one and a half per cent. Of these, some joined the RCC at the request of Benedict, in his usual malignant way. The result of this breathtakingly unwise step, welcoming traitors who had broken their own vows of canonical obedience, was the alienation of his OWN clergy, as many of those Anglicans who defected were married with a family. Therefore those married RC deacons who have historically been prevented from becoming priests, and those priests who had given up a loving wife and family for the Church, saw these newbies coming in having their cake and eating it, and they resent it somewhat. And I don't blame them one bit. But that is what one would expect regarding Benedict; it's called 'treating people (and not just the parents of abused children, but even his own clergy) with utter contempt'. I hope and pray that Francis will be a tad more Christian. You claim that the RCC is "by far is largest active church in England" According to the official figures released by the BBC from the 2001 census, 26 million people have been baptised into the Church of England, whereas the Catholic Church claims just over four million baptised members in England and Wales combined. So, even not including Wales, the number of C of E official members outnumbers Catholic members by a factor of at least six to one. Stand corrected. Even active regular attenders in the Church of England (from its own website, 4.7 million) exceeds the *total* number of Catholics, many of whom do not attend regularly or are 'lapsed'. It's been estimated that the attendance at RCC services is roughly a third of those who regularly attend the C of E. While both churches have been in decline over the last 50 years, the decline in the RCC has been far greater (again, according to BBC reported figures) and, while the C of E now has significant growth, the RCC continues to be in decline. Worldwide the RCC is also in decline thanks partly to the astronomical growth of the Chinese Church that is predominantly Protestant, and has women's ministry. the RCC is now in the minority, according to WCC figures. Visiting a RC Church and gauging its congregation size gives a false impression. In my own area, there are two moderately sized Catholic Church buildings serving a gathered congregation from all the surrounding villages. No wonder the churches seem 'full' Yet there are 27 Anglican Churches serving those villages, and each one with a viable and healthy church membership. Add these together and they would fill the RC Churches several times over. The most significant decline is the numbers entering the Catholic priesthood. In 1985 just 150 or so entered seminary, but just two decades later this number plummeted to just 22. In the C of E around five hundred new priests are called by the Holy Spirit to be ordained each year, with that figure rising year on year, roughly half of them female, so that the percentage of female clergy is continuing to rise. In France, the average age of a rural priest is way past sixty, and each one has 30+ churches under his care. This reduction of the priest into a 'mass saying machine' means that there is no pastoral care nor spiritual guidance. No wonder the RC Church there is in such a mess. Since the introduction of women, the numbers in the Church of England have grown and continue to grow. The spiritual health of the Church also continues to grow. Those parents wanting their children educated in C of E schools has grown astronomically. The C of E has become more involved in social needs and spiritual guidance than at any other time in its history. It is gradually becoming more and more blessed. You offensively say "IF THE HOLY SPIRIT WAS WITH YOU THAT WOULD BE THE CASE!!!" I truly believe it is. Stand well and truly corrected.

angelo lopes No more comments then? Not even an apology for being offensive?

***** The only one here being offensive is you and there are many like you but as I said before if the Holy Spirit was with you, this issue would now be Canon Law.There is now a DEAFENING SILENCE IN THE C OF E ON THIS BECAUSE THEY KNOW IT WOULD END IN DISASTER.I hear no more on woman Bishops or any other movement on any other more controversial issues and that will remain thus for a long while.No one is pushing for a break in the worldwide body of the CHURCH WHICH WOULD OCCUR IF ALL OF THE NEW REFORMS WERE ACTED UPON.

When you want to be a priest. Focused your life to God not on your family. Thats Why the catholic church dont want married priest cause they want that a priest should be only be whole to God and nothing else.

Female catholic priest.......nope...........

Equality for all!!!

@@thebuffalonianspodcast4956 also known as raising minorities to a pedestal higher than non-minorities and still claiming minorities are opressed.

Dr.Who1980 Productions Since when women are a minority? :'D It's more or less 50/50, you know?

Also, she is using clear-glass cups, instead of true chalices which are to be gilded on the inside.

LOL PURPLE DRAAAAANK

I think it was grape juice!! No lie!

Paul R I'm Anglican and I wanna be a priest (im a woman)

@@jesusChrist-ft3ll thou shalt not take the name of the lord thy god in vain

Actually it was an infallible pronouncement. The language speaks for itself.

Follow the true magistariam, the reason of Jesus dying for our sins, the church he allowed st Peter to create and making The Bible he allowed his apostles to make. Knowingly denying his bride, the church, is denying God. We dont follow our own beliefs because we find it unfair or jealous of those who get certain positions. Creating something God has not permitted only based on certains beliefs is mocking and denying the Lord

Well also the bible in the book of Timothy basically refers to women not being allowed positions within the clergy and church authority

Totally and utterly invalid.

@@thomashogan16 To say that they have been called by God and then rebelling in itself shows her ignorance. If God did call her, she had the chance of becoming a nun and serving the faithful.

@Em 00 I think they probably mention it because it's another disqualifying factor for priesthood in the Catholic Church. Not only is she a woman (disqualified), she's married (disqualified). Even male Catholic priests must be celibate (unless they're converting from Anglicanism and were married there, AND they get special written permission from the pope, etc).

Naitiesurië Ilúvatariel - Also, Those Anglican converts, are not permitted to re-marry.

Priests cannot marry. When you are ordained, you give yourself up to God. You pledge to God. and lay down your life for those who do not know, seek, and are confused amd to simply protect strengthen your faith and save souls from going to hell. You spread the gospel and inform others, they say their sermons of mass to release souls from purgatory so they may enter heaven.

​@@EndisYveactually there used to be married priests that's the weird thing about it. The only reason they instituted priestly celibacy was because priests were leaving church property to their surviving family. I would have no problem with married priests as long as they realize that any church property has to devolve back to whichever diocese they were with, but that they may leave their personal property to their surviving family members (sons, daughters, widows etc.).

I can see a future with trans nuns. Sorry to bother you 7 years later.

@the noah lucario With Trans Nuns? I think with sufficient pressure, even if all of us and our peers are long dead, it seems innovations and changes have historically crept their way into just about every culture and organization in existence since time immemorial.

@the noah lucario In reading about the changes and what was increasingly accepted or changes from the Earliest days of the Church to today, the religion seems almost unrecognizable comparing its antique or primitive state to its modern interpretation, but most people probably don't look into that too much and assume this is how Catholicism was, when even Medieval Catholicism was vastly different from today's Catholicism.

@@aFoxyFox. people accept the act of the lead astray ones, and those who are confused are trying to change the church because of what Satan wants and Satan is taking advantage of them. (the confused) but does God? Did God allow it? Will God forgive them for mocking and sinning to the point where they refuse what they are born with only because of how wicked this earth is because of Satan and his minions evil doings? We shouldn't allow this. Not just for us to go along but for our children, family, strangers and the ones lead astray themselves. We should pray the rosary and pray for them. We dont follow man we follow God.

Lynn Kramer Jesus Christ hadn't established catholicism, St. Peter had. Learn some history, I am a cathopic myself.

Sonic Hedgehog - Jesus said to St. Peter, “And I say to you, you’re Peter, and on this rock I will build my church.” So, yeah. Lynn Kramer was right.

....."Silly women laden with sins, led away by divers lusts, 7 ever learning, and never able to come to the knowledge of the truth. 8 And even as Jannes and Jambres withstood Moses, so do these also withstand the truth." 2 Timothy 3:6-8 (ASV)

Lets not forget the the Bible says its a "DISGRACE" for woman to speak in church. Just shows how sexist some people were back then. They'll use Adam and eve to justify their sexist views.

@@peacelove6455 men want to be woman so commonly today and do not know how to be men and do a mans duty. Women want to be men and to perform and be in a mans position. That is not how God made us. Satan has fooled and tricked too many.

Ikr

Yeah sure all the bad thingsvm the church did (wars, executions, inquisition, etc.) definitely did help shape the world as it is today. I'm gonna regret writing this so bad

True.

I hate f why should we get female priests?

Thats sexist af!! Your imaginary skydaddys a misogynist

Sup bro

Count as what?

No sir. Just because some woman wanted to be everything, married, be a priest, does not mean the Church is bad. Even Jesus Christ chose a bad man, Judas.

Follow the true magistariam! Denying his church is denying our Almighty God

A woman can preach and teach. But, the role of the priest is a masculine role, and preaching/teaching within the liturgy is his role. This is seen through the role of the Apostles as the presbyters in liturgical worship. There is no evidence in scripture of women leading liturgical worship, but there is of men throughout Acts. Jesus never ordained women. He did ordain men. This isn't an issue of equality, but of roles in the Church. Women serve some roles (which can involve teaching outside of liturgy), and men serve others. Why is this an issue?

Nathan Schachle - Not sure if true, but I read/heard something to the extent of someone who was ordained, illicitly ordained these women. It may have even been a priest, and from my understanding they are not to pass down ordination, at least under normal circumstances. To me, it sounds like the Devil is pushing really hard. But, Jesus promises that the Gates of Hell will not prevail against his Church and that it will be with us till the end of times.

So the pope is God ? I don't remember that .

Of course the Pope is not God. Neither is she. The Holy Spirit is not summoned like an elevator. You can't just push a button and down He comes. Think of the tens of thousands of groups (I won't use "churches") who maintain the Holy Spirit has infused them with the right to do what they wish ,and they all disagree about Scripture and all that they contain. Christ's will and love while He was personally present here on earth was the creation of the Catholic Church through Peter and the bishops of Rome. Women can never be priests. The church has spoken and the case is closed. How is this difficult to grasp?

Women can’t be priests because Jesus chose men the apostles followed by only choosing men and after 2000 years the church doesn’t feel like they have authority to ordain women to be priests

@@i_amsocool5719 okay. But it does not make sense to me tbh. Considering the status of women in those days, it’s no wonder Jesus chose only men as his followers. However, it doesn’t mean that it should always be like that.

@@alnnvk3186 ....."Silly women laden with sins, led away by divers lusts, 7 ever learning, and never able to come to the knowledge of the truth. 8 And even as Jannes and Jambres withstood Moses, so do these also withstand the truth." 2 Timothy 3:6-8 (ASV)

@@earnestlycontendingforthef5332 idi nahui

Well if I was ever to be Pope... Not only would I possibly allow women priests but I would also drop the celibacy thing so the priests could marry.

Tell me did you ever see the movie Dogma? Because the almighty does appear in that film as a woman. In this case played by Alanis morissette. Basically God can take any form.