Able Quote by Andrew Greeley

Women priests. Great, great. Now there's priests of both sexes I don't listen to.

— Bill Hicks

The priests are debarred from female society, nor is any woman permitted to enter the religious houses.

— Anonymous

“I hear what they're saying about faith, about the priests at our church and how they relate to women, about the bishops and cardinals…

— Kaya Oakes

The Catholic Church has never really come to terms with women. What I object to is being treated either as Madonnas or Mary Magdalenes.

— Shirley Williams

People always ask how there are female priests, but in this world there are.

— Maggie Q

There are ignorant priests and ignorant people, who are all too ready to cry sorcery if a woman is only a little wiser than…

— Marion Zimmer Bradley

The Catholic Church holds that it is not admissible to ordain women to the priesthood, for very fundamental reasons. These reasons include: the example…

— Pope Paul VI

People ask me what I think about that woman priest thing. What, a woman priest? Women priests. Great, great. Now there's priests of both…

— Bill Hicks

It's perfectly fair that you can't be a Roman Catholic priest unless you're a man. It seems right that the reach of anti-discriminatory law…

— Trevor Phillips

Every minister knows it's harder to get the guys to church than the women. We ought to be asking why this is.

— Rodney Stark

[On women as priests:] It has always seemed very odd to me that this particular sphere of activity should remain a male closed shop,…

— Mary Stocks, Baroness Stocks

There's nothing sexier than a lapsed Catholic.

— Woody Allen