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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

[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

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

— Maggie Q

The Catholic men are more upset about women not being able to be priests than are Catholic women.

— Andrew Greeley

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

— Bill Hicks

The divine law indeed has excluded women from this ministry, but they endeavour to thrust themselves into it; and since they can effect nothing…

— John Chrysostom

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

The orthodox Jewish faith practically excludes woman from religious life.

— Abraham Cahan

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

It is not permitted for a woman to speak in the church, nor is it permitted for her to teach, nor to baptize, nor…

— Tertullian

Women are special custodians of all that is pure and religious in life.

— Mahatma Gandhi

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