Brainstorm

[Catholic_Lady]

@CL, I have a question.  Do you agree with the church that women can never have authority over man?
If so, why?

The reasons the church gives are because is says so in the bible. The reasons the bible gives are because women are inherently less able and less godly than men. It also claims that women who make any attempt to teach in a church of god are "deceptive", "deluded", "blasphemous", "puffed up", "heretical", "shameless", etc.

Do you agree with this?

The Catholic Church admits all of this on its own answers page:
Women and the Priesthood

p.s. This question occurred to me reading your responses in another thread, but I did not want to clutter up that thread.  It seemed better suited here.  If this isn't the place, I can ask elsewhere.

What teaching are you referring to? The school principle of my Catholic grade school was a woman, and she was the boss to a few male teachers. There's nothing in Church teaching that says woman can never have authority over men. 

As for women being priests, the way it was explained to me is that the Church does not have the authority to ordain women as priests because only men have the ability to bring forth spiritual life. Much like only women can bring physical life (being pregnant and giving birth). It isn't because men are better than women or women are better than men... but rather that they each have a different role when it comes to the life giving aspect of God's plan for us. 

By the way "Catholic Answers" is a very traditional, conservative site. I'm not saying they give incorrect answers. The answers they give are correct, but the way it is worded, the way it is put together, and the reasons they give are pretty much the more conservative approach to everything. Kind of like Fox News covering a specific story... the facts they give may be correct, but the way things are put together definitely "lean" a certain way. For a more objective look at Church teaching, see the Catechism.