The Subordination Of Women In The Catholic Church

In this debate, the explicit and perhaps more important causes have been intermingled: the implicit causes, those that are there, hidden in the ideological background. In addition, the reasons given for distancing women from the priesthood and also from the "diaconia" and other ecclesial functions are also part of the solid ideological and anthropological compendium that has systematically rejected them from the altar and ecclesial power.
Together with children, slaves, homicides, big-breakers, illegitimate children, physical deficient ..., women are part of the "chorus" of the problematic at the time of receiving the sacrament of Holy Orders. The doubts come from the fact that the woman can be a prophet, exercise the prelature as is the case

Both maintain the validity of the aforementioned fees. The arguments, schematically stated, are: The masculine character of the Old Testament priesthood and the subordination of women to men according to the New Testament in the Pastoral Letters. The symbolic-anthropological argument: "because Christ was and continues to be a man." And the symbolic-nuptial argument: Christ, male, Husband and the Church, female, Wife. The argument of the "venerable" Tradition in the practice of the Church. The "fidelity to the prototype of the priestly ministry willed by the Lord Jesus Christ and carefully maintained by the apostles" (Inter Insignores). The fact that Christ, positively, did not choose any woman among the "Twelve" and therefore did not institute women as priests and excluded them from this

However, some of them are less and less used. The ones that are truly appealing are: the symbolic question, the Tradition and the biblical argument, that is, the absence of women between the Twelve and the Last Supper.
Some of these arguments are those that should help the Church to also rethink the celibacy of priests. Although the Biblical Commission has stated unambiguously: "As there is insufficient evidence in the Scripture to decide the question, the Church could modify its secular practice and admit women to priestly ordination," however, Rome continues to affirm that: Church, out of fidelity to the example of her Lord, does not consider herself authorized to admit women to priestly ordination. "
To be carried away by the prejudices that see in the ministerial priesthood a discrimination of the woman and in parallel an exaltation of the man to the detriment of the woman; it is a lack of optics: in the Catholic Church, the ministerial priesthood is a service to the People of God and not an aristocratic issue; indeed, the latter is precisely an abuse of the ministerial priesthood similar to that which contaminated the Pharisees and Sadducees of the evangelical