(July 6, 2015 at 1:36 pm)Catholic_Lady Wrote: Bolded mine. This is not Catholic teaching.
Remember, Catholicism is not sola scriptura. I can't speak for the Christian denominations that are.
It isn't in that sense, but it is part of the keystone of why women cannot become priests right? To be a top leader within Catholicism one needs to receive holy orders, and to receive holy orders you need to pass two checks...
A) A penis, and not just any penis but a fully functional set of male genitalia (eunuchs cannot become clergy or preform mass).
B) Women are made in the image of man, not of God. That's why the NT directs women to submit to their superior male who in turn submits to his (God).
If you look back at Church history this really is the case, you can be autistic like Celestine, you can even be a 13 year old boy who doesn't know crap about theology but so long as you've got a dong that makes you a candidate for the papacy. Forget the fact you can be a theological genius like Hildegarde; no dong? No promotion.
Women cannot become leaders in Catholicism, they will always have another man over them telling them what they can and can't do.
