I was a guest on the FEMboldened Podcast with Angelica Pascone. She basically wanted to know where my interest and passion for the Women Priest issue began. It actually started with a birthday gift my brother Paul received from my Mom. It was a cardboard replica of the Church Altar. Paul was the Priest, and my twin sister Pat and I were the parishioners. Things took a dramatic turn when I told my brother that I wanted to play the role of Priest. Paul quickly let me know I could not be a Priest because I was a girl. Or another time after choir practice, my mom who was the Church Organist, asked myself and Pat, if we would like to go and stand behind the Altar Table? I practically was just behind the Altar when I heard the Monsignor voice asking my mother, “ what are those girls doing up on the altar?” The Monsignor was in for a surprise when my mother told him, “it is alright unless they are cleaning the Altar.” He immediately turned away and left the Church.

As our discussion went on Angelica, posed the following thought, “what history and truth actually is, as opposed to what we actually have been told to us for centuries.” As I presently reflect on how this thought, so poignantly encapsulates the Women Priest issue today. The major pushback on this issue, stems from what the Church Hierarchy has always presented to the Laity, that there never were Women Priests in this Church’s history. As opposed to “what history and truth actually is, that Mary Mother of God was a Woman Priest, a Sacrificial priest, called Mary Priest.

Angelica wondered, “if women do become ordained, how is that going to shift Women’s rights in the US?” It certainly would have a huge impact on women and girls in our Church. Just taking every single parish in every city in the US, and then worldwide, the very magnitude would indeed be earth-shattering. Even through our Baptism, we are equal to men, though we know in reality that never has been, but this finally would change that inequality. Women whether Religious or Laity could finally answer their own call from God to serve as a Woman Priest. Young girls in our Church would finally see women role models, of what it would be like for a girl to be a Woman Priest. Truly, Women now would be afforded the opportunity to follow in Mother Mary’s, footsteps of being a Women Priest in the Catholic Church Today!

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