If anyone was hoping for women priests, give up on that. The Roman Catholic church would first have to retract both papal infallibility and ecumenical infallibility.

They have made too many definitive statements that women can’t be priests, and they have made definitive statements that their definitive statements are infallible, and must be agreed to by anyone who calls themself Catholic. It’s not even up for debate (unless all of the infallibility stuff is also up for debate).

For example:

I declare that the Church has no authority whatsoever to confer priestly ordination on women and that this judgment is to be definitively held by all the Church’s faithful.

https://www.vatican.va/content/john-paul-ii/en/apost_letters/1994/documents/hf_jp-ii_apl_19940522_ordinatio-sacerdotalis.html

They really painted themselves into a corner. While the rest of society moves forward with equal rights for historically marginalized groups, the Catholic church will be stuck with the effects of their early bad decisions (and some recent bad decisions) because they banned themselves from admitting when they are wrong.

Tax the church!

That’s a Hell of a background they decided on for that photo

How fun. I was just talking to my daughter about how incredibly sexist the Catholic Church is yesterday.

She said that someone she was talking to online excused the ‘women must not speak in church’ part of the New Testament as saying that makes nuns possible. So since she knows basically nothing about Catholicism, I explained to her the major power imbalance between priests and nuns and how the patriarchal structure of the Catholic Church will keep it that way for the foreseeable future.

Lack of equality is why I left the church in my youth. I have way more reasons to never rejoin now, but this feels way too little way too late.

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