Church Gender Roles

The role of women in the church has been a touchy issue for the past decades. Women struggle to obtain the same positions as men do, most importantly the position of priest. The Roman Catholic church is strict with the rules the church attains and puts a men figurehead in its central position. Women are laity upon the church ministry, with no way to get to the same status as a man. There are specific reasons as to why they won’t with the letters of Pope John Paul II and many others backing up doctrines and scriptures presented in the past.

The roles that women play in church does not compare to what a man could obtain. They are submissive and must teach their fellow husbands how to be in good with God, the son, and the holy spirit. In sermons

Women must let religion into the household if not they will be at fault for it not implementing it. Their purpose is to build the Catholic Church through their eyes to witness faith, administering and staffing catholic schools, hospitals and religious orders. The women can obtain to lead praying services or even be president of the council and not be considered to much for them. Opinions of what women can do start to differ when its heavy duty sacramental issues or anything to do with Sunday Assembly. For women, it is simply not possible to become ordained and join in at the top of the hierarchal ranks. Although, there are far more roles for women in the catholic church. There are now women that can be the administrator of a parish. The women doesn’t have to be necessarily a nun, it could be a married woman even a non-married women. This still does not change their status from laity in the catholic church “because ordination to the clerical state is denied to

Their argument states “Catechism of the catholic church states that only men can receive holy orders because Jesus chose men as his apostles”. This is recorded in sacred scriptures from which Pope John Paul II draws his statement. In May 1994 Pope John Paul II wrote a letter on the issue of women’s ordination. The letter was titled Ordinatio Sacerdotalis meaning (On reserving priestly ordination to men alone). With the apostles agreeing to this stating, “apostles did the same when they chose collaborators to succeed them in their ministry”. Church was made in the foundation of twelve men, they interpret God in different terms. The pope continues to give reasons Pope Paul VI left behind in a letter Archbishop of Canterbury of the Anglican Church “teaching authority which was consistently held that the execution of women from the priesthood is in accordance with God’s plan for HIS Church”. Men can transmit church’s teachings with philosophical definitions and logical syllogisms. Pope John Paul II continues with his views based on the readings of the New testament and apolistic traditions. From these he concludes that Jesus didn’t include female disciples onto the inner core of apostles. Continuing stating that this should not be a representation of inequality of men and women. This is simply Roman Catholic church tradition it is not a democracy where priesthood can be