Women should be allowed to be priests. Jesus never specifically said that women should not be priests, although he did choose only men as his 12 apostles. The Catholic Church is struggling to recruit new priests, and many of the existing priests are getting much older and losing touch with their parishioners.

Allowing women to be priests could inject some new energy in to the Catholic Church and help it to promote it's goal of growth and conversion of new members.

Women can be just as effective pastors as men.

Seven reasons why women can and should receive Holy Orders:

1. One priesthood in Christ

Through baptism women and men share equally in the new priesthood of Christ. This includes openness to Holy Orders.

2. Empowered to preside

At the Last Supper Jesus empowered both women and men. Both can be ordained to preside at the Eucharist.

3. Cultural bias

The Church’s practice of not ordaining women as priests was based on a three-fold prejudice against women. This affected the judgment of Church leaders.

4. Women have been deacons

Until at least the ninth century the Church gave women the full sacramental ordination of deacons. This proves women can be ordained.

5. The ability for women to be ordained has been present in the Church’s latent Tradition.

One example is the age-long devotion to Mary as priest. It shows that, according to the ‘sense of the faithful’, in Mary the ban against women has already been overcome.

6. The wider Church accepts women priests

After serious study and prayer other Christian Churches now ordain women as priests. Though not everything other churches do can be accepted by the Catholic Church, this converging consensus by believing Christians confirms that ordaining women is according to the mind of Christ.

7. Women too are, in fact, called to be priests

The fact that many responsible Catholic women discern in themselves a vocation to the priesthood is a sign of the Holy Spirit you cannot ignore.

Conclusion:

There are no valid arguments against women priests, and many truly Catholic arguments in favour.

Yes, that way when they molest the choir boys it would be a little more normal. Ok, take that with a grain of salt.

No. And we could solve a lot of problems by keeping men from being Catholic priests too. I say, only dogs, eunuchs, and hermaphrodites should be allowed to be priest.

Not unless they give up their foreskins.