Emphatically, the most revered Woman in the Catholic Church is Mary, the Mother of God. She rightly is up on her Pedestal, as the perfect Model of Motherhood for any woman in the Catholic Church. This indeed is the only model I ever knew about back in the 1950’s regarding Mary’s role in our Church. Any other type of conjecture about Mary having another title would have been construed as pure nonsense back then.

Today, sadly that same misguided belief is ever-present. It remains so by this Church’s false statement, “there never having been Women Priests in the history of the Catholic Church.” What if the Church’s notion of “never having Women Priests, in their Church’s history,” was in all reality not so?

How is that last sentence resonating with you? Are you feeling perhaps confused or totally lost, in my dare questioning of our Church’s centuries own definite thoughts of women basically being absent from any priestly roles in our Church’s past history? This particular mindset keeps the issue of women becoming priests at bay. The shadow of women priests’ actual history is truly like a phantom from the shadows residing in the graveyard of papal records. Its voice, having been lost for centuries, is now but a  whisper wanting to be heard by today’s Catholics.

Biblical research presents us with the factual narrative of women’s past religious roles in our early Church History. Such research examines previous conjectures to prove something as so or not so. It as well allows one to see, why a past statement, no longer has true relevance. In particular the articulation of a completely wrong assumption of there being no history of women in priestly roles in the history of the Catholic Church. With the truth at hand, any Catholic can now embrace a prior past history of women in Priestly positions! At the top of that list, is none other than Mary Mother of God, she was a woman priest, known as “Mary Priest.” Her other title was, “The Model For All Priesthood in the Catholic Church.” If already it was not bad enough, that this information has been hiding in the shadows of Church history, but to then have the Church hierarchy take this title away from Mary, in 1927, is unbelievable! Aren’t you curious to know, exactly what was the Church hierarchy’s reason for removing this title away from Jesus’ Mother? How personally are you going to embrace this special information? Might your own spirituality begin to illuminate your faith life differently?

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