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When can we expect the 1st visit from a female Pope?

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    #32
    Seth Brundle
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    Fleawuss wrote: »
    None of course. What a silly question.
    Its not really. It shows that it is a rule conceived by men to keep women out.
    The role should be about your faith and not because you've got a cock under your dress!


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    #33
    looksee
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    These are men who retire into the safety of celibacy. Of course they do not want women in the Vatican - well, except for the nuns who do the housework stuff.


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    #34
    Berserker
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    looksee wrote: »
    The usual answer is that none of the disciples were women so obviously god only wanted men as priests. In much the same way that none of the disciples were Italian or Polish or German, so obviously god only wanted Jews for priests - didn't he?

    Thanks for the info and I agree with you on your second point. It really is a very outdated rule.
    kbannon wrote: »
    Its not really. It shows that it is a rule conceived by men to keep women out.

    What is their problem with woman? What do they think will happen if there were women priests? Are they just being stubborn for the sake of it?


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    #35
    Nomis21
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    For some unknown reason God is always referred to in the male gender. There is no reason to presume that God is a male. God could be female couldn't she?

    When we can accept that God can be female, then female popes will surely follow.


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    #36
    looksee
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    So if god is female, why did she only want male apostles? Of course, at the time a woman would not have got away with being the Saviour - no-one would have paid any attention to a woman - so he had to be male, and presumably the same reason for the apostles.


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    darkpagandeath
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    amcalester wrote: »
    Neither can men.

    A male Priest can Apparently.


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