Beginning in the late 20th century, with increasing tendencies toward modernist heresies and the development of new ideologies about inclusiveness and equality of roles among the sexes, there’s been an increasing push for women’s ordination in the West.

The Catholic Church, however, is not governed by modernist tendencies or pressure groups. But what are the reasons behind this ancient and unchanging practice of the Church? Is the Church’s prohibition against women’s ordination to be blamed on sexism? Is it due to on old habit of rigidly holding on to an antiquated patriarchy of the past? The reasons include none of those things. 

Objective: In this course, students will learn why women are not priests. Students will learn where the idea that women should be ordained came from and why it cannot occur. Students will learn that the male only priesthood is the plan of God for the Church.

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