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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
If the New Testament was written centuries after Christ, how do we know for sure that Jesus had only male apostles?
Michelle Arnold
Am I right in thinking that priests may prohibit female altar servers?
Peggy Frye
Why isn't a sacrament when women become nuns, but it is when men are ordained priests?
Fr. Vincent Serpa O.P.
Why can't women be ordained priests within the Catholic Church?
Jim Blackburn
There was an article in our local paper about a woman being ordained as bishop then ordaining other bishops. Is this valid?
Peggy Frye
Does the use of the present tense in Ordinatio Sacerdotalis suggest that the Church could ordain women in the future?
Doesn't being Catholic mean that one should accept the Church's teachings without publicly disagreeing?
Catholic Answers Staff
Did John Paul II's refusal to ordain women go against his consistent teaching on the dignity of the individual person?

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