fact that they are male or female. However when searching official religious internet sites, certain ones caught my eye. These sites were entitled, who will cook now? What about the washing?, and what is she doing out of the kitchen. This highlights the fact that this is not a moral judgment; in that the Old Testament stated that women should not be priests therefore it is not to be done, but a gender judgment, in that because she is a woman she is not able to fulfill the requirements to be ordained. Religious writer of best-selling book, My Path to God, Paul Collins stated “The ordination of women into the Catholic church will have to happen despite the fact that John Paul II has made opposition to women’s ordination a litmus test of loyalty”. Many reasons have been given for the in-ability for women to be ordained. Some sources say that the Pope has declared that the Church cannot ordain women to the priesthood now or at any time in the future. However he later explained that he said it is not that the church is unwilling to ordain women; but that the church does not currently have the authority to do so. If so when is this authority going to be over-written? It is obvious that this debate is a very controversial one, in that it sparks many arguments to what is the proper solution. In the past years much has been done by religious groups to release this law from the Catholic Church. However I believe in an age where we are given such freedom, it is only fair that we allow women to become ordained in the Catholic Church. Jesus once stated in the Bible “do not judge a person on the decisions that they make but rather praise them for the glory that they portray”. I agree with this statement in that I believe that instead of focusing all our power on this topic we should be more interested in understanding our God instead of questioning God whether the right decision was made. The fact is, women should not be...
