Catholics only: should women be ordained as priests?

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Option 4.  This is a major reason why I'll never be Catholic.  People are of equal worth; I'm aware of the "equal but different" argument, but you can't have equality with the "head and helper" nonsense.  

It does seem, however, that Catholics are generally more sensible than evangelicals.  Many individual Catholics are not that enthusiastic about complimentarianism.  Nonetheless, it doesn't look like the church is budging.  Maybe the egalitarian-minded Catholics should just become Episcopalian, or maybe Lutheran.

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Maybe the egalitarian-minded Catholics should just become Episcopalian, or maybe Lutheran.

I know many magisterial Protestants in the US like to advertise their churches as "Catholicism without the sex discrimination", but that isn't actually the case, and it's insulting to the memory of the seminal figures of Anglican and Lutheran history to suggest that that's all those traditions boil down to.

I didn't say that.

Perhaps I should have just said any tradition egalitarian Catholics might prefer.  I just mentioned those two since they contain the high church familiarity, but that's not necessarily what's important to them.  They can be whatever they want, and maybe they could find something in different denomination that appeals to them.

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Maybe the egalitarian-minded Catholics should just become Episcopalian, or maybe Lutheran.

I know many magisterial Protestants in the US like to advertise their churches as "Catholicism without the sex discrimination", but that isn't actually the case, and it's insulting to the memory of the seminal figures of Anglican and Lutheran history to suggest that that's all those traditions boil down to.

I didn't say that.

Perhaps I should have just said any tradition egalitarian Catholics might prefer.  I just mentioned those two since they contain the high church familiarity, but that's not necessarily what's important to them.  They can be whatever they want, and maybe they could find something in different denomination that appeals to them.

The point I'm making is that Catholics who are uncomfortable with the sex-discriminatory aspects of Catholicism might have other reasons, even other theological reasons, to stay Catholic rather than seeking out another tradition at all. Obviously plenty of Catholics do decamp to various mainline Protestant denominations for these sorts of reasons, but it's not a resolution that's for everyone, especially not for people who object to Catholic teaching on some sex- and gender-related issues but agree with it on others.

Of course they can stay Catholic too, especially if the issues they disagree with the church on aren’t as big a priority as the ones which they agree with it on, sure.