Church Quote by Pope Benedict XVI

The question of whether women should be made bishops once they had been ordained is absolutely pivotal. It seems to me absolute nonsense for…

— David Hope, Baron Hope of Thornes

The Church should say, 'I'm frightened that women will be ordained;' that's honest, say that. But don't say, 'It's a grave sin,' because that's…

— Greg Boyle

The church may hold whatever it holds with regard to clerical celibacy.

— William P. Leahy

Again, as I had often met it in my own church, I was confronted with the Impurity of Women doctrine that seemed to preoccupy…

— Harper Lee

There were theoretical elements in the subjection of women and it is not possible to avoid the conclusion that a large contribution was made…

— Anonymous

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

“That line of reasoning, however, is patently bogus. Discussion of women’s ordination among Adventists predated the “women’s lib” movement by 70 or more years:…

— William G. Johnsson

“During the tenth and eleventh centuries the rule of the Church prohibiting the clergy from marrying appears to have been widely and publicly neglected…

— James Harvey Robinson

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

— Andrew Greeley

The church's teaching on marriage is unequivocal, it is uniquely, the union of a man and a woman and it is wrong that governments,…

— Keith O'Brien

I left the Church of England because there was a huge bundle of straw. The ordination of women was the last straw, but it…

— Ann Widdecombe

It seems particularly ironic that a church that at one stage, a long time ago, fought to redefine marriage should now be so opposed…

— Andrew Solomon