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Originally Posted by joeysteele
Actually though Niamh..
The people in the Catholic church and even the ones I attend when I go.
It is possibly surprisingly that it is the vast majority of the females who are the more strongly against female Priests.
Even my own late Mother and Grandmothers on both my parents side, were absolutely not in favour of female Priests either.
Even my female cousins and Nieces, who are Catholic too, they also would not like to see it happen.
Very few indeed would.
So it's not just a generational thing.
However yes, the Catholic church is male dominated in its ministry, absolutely.
That cannot be denied.
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I would counter that it's not surprising at all, Abrahamic religions are repressive of women at their core and thus women who are heavily invested in religion tend to have a bit of cognitive dissonance going on when it comes to the intersection of inequalities and religion... even when they would immediately recognise it in any other (non-religion-related) aspect of life. Men can explore the question freely; because it's academic, it doesn't affect them in the same way directly, so it doesn't affect their commitment to the religion in the same way.
But then isn't that the case with so many aspects of religion. Caveats, contradictions and selective blinkers are an essential part of faith (in organised religion), I feel... questioning in one area tends to lead to a cascade of further questions that can be catastrophic for a religious person who isn't ready to take a deep dive.