I was a guest on the Podcast, InfoBlast, with Nick Jobe (listen below). He asked me, “what got you wanting to take on the Catholic Church in full book form?” Learning that I had been personally misinformed for years by the Church indeed, hit a nerve. My own conscience felt that this simply wasn’t right for any Catholic women, whether here in the United States, or abroad, to not realize about this wonderful, other side side of Mother Mary, as a Women priest, called Mary Priest. Beyond this, Mary’s title was “The Model for all Priesthood in the Catholic Church.” This is a special history which never deserved to be buried within the closets of the Catholic Church’s history.
Nick mentioned, “inequality and social change is a big play, in why women would want to be priests, but is there anything else you feel, is a strong reason why women should fight the Church, this way?” The Church will cite, five Biblical Reasons why Women can’t be Priests. In actuality none of these five are Biblical in nature, instead they were derived from Cultural Prejudice. In 1976, the Pope’s own Pontifical Biblical Commission found no Biblical reason to prevent women from becoming Priests. From Vatican II, article 29, from the Church in the Modern World, deals with removing any type of discrimination in our Church. All of these previous points presents a stunning portrayed of nothing being acted on to facilitate such needed change in our Church.
Finally, I was asked, “what do you think it would take to get this thread of history turned around? Like what is the stone that David, has to throw, for the Church, to get it through their head?” First of all the Catholic Laity world-wide needs to hear the truth of this issue, just as Rome, needs to actually hear their dismay over their hierarchy’s less than stellar behavior here. The hierarchy will continue summarily to cover-up their own Church’s past history regarding women, until the Laity holds them accountable for their very selective memory on this issue. We need them to start mirroring Jesus’ own type of inclusive Ministry toward Women in the Church today. Once and for all, they need to recognize a women’s equality with men in our Church. Any Women’s Baptism, should guarantee their own equality in our Church, to truly step forward to answer their own call from Jesus, to be a Woman Priest in our Church today.
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