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Deacons cannot celebrate Mass, so why can't women be ordained to the diaconate?
What is it that keeps women from being priests?
Michelle Arnold
Why can't women be ordained priests within the Catholic Church?
Jim Blackburn
Does the use of the present tense in Ordinatio Sacerdotalis suggest that the Church could ordain women in the future?
Did John Paul II's refusal to ordain women go against his consistent teaching on the dignity of the individual person?
Did Jesus choose only men as apostles simply because of the cultural mores of his era?
Was Jesus prevented from selecting women as apostles because of the Jewish blood taboo?

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