Comment at "Trouble brewing"

Note: This is my comment at PDI's Trouble brewing.

I understand the sentiment of the author who employs a secular and atheistic theoretical framework in portraying the Catholic Church as an institution.

The faithfuls of the Catholic Church accept by faith that the Catholic Church has a spiritual and invisible dimension, analogously similar to a human being that has a spiritual soul united to a physical and material body.

Thus, it is incomplete and a huge injustice to measure the Catholic Church in purely physical, visible and material criteria.

In understanding why Catholic Church does not ordain women to the priesthood, it is necessary to look back at the historical past, up to the time of Jesus Christ, true God and true man, who chose only men as his closest collaborators in fulfilling His mission. Moreover, it is a big mistake for Mr. Denis Murphy to treat the priesthood as positions of power. Contrary to his notion, priests ought to look at their role as servants, following Jesus Christ's example.

But this does not mean women have a lower dignity compared to men. It is taught in the Catholic Church that men and women have equal personal dignity. In addition, "Everyone, man and woman, should acknowledge and accept his sexual identity. Physical, moral, and spiritual difference and complementarity are oriented toward the goods of marriage and the flourishing of family life. The harmony of the couple and of society depends in part on the way in which the complementarity, needs, and mutual support between the sexes are lived out." (Catechism of the Catholic Church 2333)