Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!usc!apple!sun-barr!rutgers!aramis.rutgers.edu!athos.rutgers.edu!christian From: tblake@bingvaxu.cc.binghamton.edu (Thomas Blake) Newsgroups: soc.religion.christian Subject: Re: ambitious women may approach the altar now ... Message-ID: Date: 13 May 91 06:09:22 GMT Sender: hedrick@athos.rutgers.edu Organization: State University of New York at Binghamton Lines: 21 Approved: christian@aramis.rutgers.edu In article jhpb@garage.att.com (Joseph H Buehler) writes: >Leaving aside the Scriptural arguments, here are a couple things that >indicate the respective roles of men and women to me as a Catholic: >- The Catholic hierarchy is all male, by Divine will. Women cannot be >validly ordained, and cannot exercise ecclesiastical jurisdiction. >- God became Incarnate as a man. True, but he could only be incarnate as one sex. If Jesus had been born a woman, do you think that we might reasonably assume that men were unfit to be ordained? If Jesus felt that a woman (or women) were fit to be the first to receive the Good News of his resurrection, and felt that they were fit to carry that Good News to tell men when he first rose from the grave, why would he feel them unfit to carry that same Good News to men today? Tom Blake SUNY-Binghamton