“Though, with St. Paul, I fully subscribe to women being treated on equal terms as men in the Church, I am not a feminist. I am a man, and I cannot speak from my Christian experience as a woman, nor judge issues specifically from a womanly perspective as women theologians do. Neither did I enter the field with a feminist agenda, as I narrated in the first chapter. I am approaching the question of women's ordination as a theologian. And like other theologians — both men and women — I have come to the clear recognition that the reasons for barring women from ordination cannot be substantiated from Scripture or tradition. Sacred Scripture leaves the question wide open. In so-called Catholic "tradition", women were excluded from ministries because of social conditions and cultural prejudice. I will validate these claims in the next chapters. I am defending these conclusions as a man, as a professional theologian and as a Catholic.” TraditionScriptureCatholicismWomens RightsCatholic ChurchPriesthoodOrdinationMagisterium Book:The Ordination of Women in the Catholic Church ; Unmasking a Cuckoo's Egg Tradition Source: The Ordination of Women in the Catholic Church ; Unmasking a Cuckoo's Egg Tradition
“The presumption that Jesus who had wiped out the ancient bias against women in the common priesthood of the faithful, would reintroduce it in ministerial priesthood defies all logic. The contention that Jesus, who brought worship 'in spirit and in truth' and for whom love and service were the supreme characteristics of his ministry, would then introduce maleness as an essential requirement offends the inner consistency of the Gospel.” TraditionScriptureCatholicismWomens RightsCatholic ChurchPriesthoodOrdinationMagisterium Book:The Ordination of Women in the Catholic Church ; Unmasking a Cuckoo's Egg Tradition Source: The Ordination of Women in the Catholic Church ; Unmasking a Cuckoo's Egg Tradition
