When one is required to preside over the Church, and be entrusted with the care of so many souls, the whole female sex must retire before the magnitude of the task, and the majority of men also.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Men are able to sustain a career into their 50s and 60s and still present themselves as sex symbols. With women, on the other hand, people say, 'Why doesn't she retire?'
The pope is an intelligent man and realizes that time marches on. He says the Church has a long way to go in developing a real strategy that integrates women - but clearly he is baffled as to how to do it.
Every minister knows it's harder to get the guys to church than the women. We ought to be asking why this is.
Women serve but to keep a man from better company.
The Church should say, 'I'm frightened that women will be ordained;' that's honest, say that. But don't say, 'It's a grave sin,' because that's nonsense.
It is by letting the world go and coming unto Christ that we increasingly live as women of God.
The church may hold whatever it holds with regard to clerical celibacy.
First, women are more likely to live in poverty during their retirement years than are men.
Holy scripture does not hold women back. It's the people that decide to interpret it in such a way for their own, sometimes political, agendas.
In all systems of theology the devil figures as a male person. Yes, it is women who keep the church going.