Women Priests for Catholic Church?

Why does the Catholic Church continue to prohibit women from being ordained priests?

There are references to women disciples in the New Testament. Mary Magdalen was certainly a noted friend and follower of Jesus of Nazareth and showed up numerable times when the male followers were cowering in fear, and denying their Lord.

Pope Benedict XVI recently likened ordaining women priests to "the sin of pedophelia."

A lack of priests in general here in the US has certainly contributed to lessening attendance. How much religious guidance or pastoral support can you get from a man who is saying five masses in three different cities on any given Sunday, as is happening in eastern Idaho?

And yet the current pope compares ordaining women to "the sin of pedophelia?"

The Catholic Church canon law was written in centuries - or even millennia past - when women were considered property; when women couldn't vote; when women couldn't inherit or own property in their own name; when war lords and kings sealed political bargains through marriage or traded cows and wheat for a bride.

Maybe His Holiness should try life in the 21st century and ordain women to the priesthood. God created no second class citizens and is not responsible for and certainly doesn't encourage second class thinking.

GOP = tax cuts for the rich: why?

Many Republican senators and congressional representatives - and a few democrats - feel impelled to fight for extending the Bush tax cuts for the richest folks in America - millionaires and billionaires. This idea of rewarding the already wealthy originally became the government's fiscal version of the Nicene Creed under President Ronald Reagan. Some sanity prevailed during the Clinton years and then ... all hell broke lose under "W."
Republicans will swear to you that we must protect our millionaires and billionaires (the Ronald Reagans and George Bushes of the world) so that they can continue their hiring practices that so stimulate the enconomy.
Except the super rich DON'T stimulate the economy by spending or hiring nearly as much as one might think. They buy lavishly to a point. But with their extra money, they save, buy stock, buy real estate. They don't hire another chauffeur or maid or butler where one will suffice. They don't invest in making widgets, they invest in trust funds for their children and grandchildren.
Ordinary folks like the rest of us don't HAVE extra money. When we get a little more than we need for food, fuel and rent, we usually spend it on something frivolous ... like braces for our 12-yer old or a warm winter coat that actually fits the 14-year old that shot up 6 inches last year - or even a few more fresh vegetables during the weekly marketing trip.
These purchases do stimulate the economy because the money is circulating from hand to hand and not sitting quietly in an account somewhere.
In the past two decades or so, the wealthiest 2% of Americans have seen their bottom line rise by over 200%!!! Income levels for the poor and middle class have only risen from 8% to 16%.
We have subsidized the rich's increasing success through OUR INCREASED TAXES to the tune of thousands of dollars per person.
This is called the trickle down theory. Has it been working for YOU and YOUR FAMILY?
Remember in November!!!!

"Dove" preacher endangers USA, will burn Holy Bible

Pastor Terry Jones of the Dove World Outreach Center said he plans to go forward with the burning of the Quran (Koran)this Saturday, the ninth anniversary of the 9/11 attacks.

Gen. David Petraeus commented in an email to AP that this move would incite violence against the US military overseas and that images of a burning Quran would help our enemies recruit new followers.

Isn't the dove a symbol of Peace?

Isn't Pastor Terry a Christian church leader? Would Jesus make this move?

Does Pastor Terry even realize that the New Testament is part of the Quran ... as is the Old Testament? Or is he ignorant of the fact that in order to burn the Muslim holy book, he will also be burning the Gospel according to Matthew, Mark, Luke and John along with the Pentateuch.
What percentage of Islamic faithful was responsible for the World Trade Center bombing? .003? Or less? So why defame an entire race of people? Is he a white supremacist?

Is Pastor Terry anti-American military? On the side of terrorist recruitment? Where was he born? What seminary did he graduate from?

Does the Republican leadership support this move? Pat Robertson, where are YOU?

America deserves answers to these questions.

Over but never out, Scud Downing