If women exodus and resettle in the nation known as the Vatican, Italy and become registered voters, will they be able to become Pope someday? With women working together as a team, they could out vote the men there and then, presto - abracadabra - the first female Pope. Western democracy in action! http://www.beliefnet.com/ With God, all things are possible. - The Bible http://www.pbs.org/wnet/secrets/case_bible/index.html Archibishop Milingo favors marriage (one man to one woman) http://www.archbishopmilingo.org/ Bishop Katharine Jefferts Schori http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Katharine_Jefferts_Schori
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Rome is not democratic! Pope is selected from among the cardinals which are all male! You have to be a priest to become a cardinal! You have to be male to become a priest!
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Sorry, it's the Cardinals who discern God's will for the next Pope. Cardinals are bishops. Bishops are priests. Priestesses are not possible. Therefore no women bishops. Therefore no women Cardinals. Therefore no women involved in selection of the next Pope.
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that is something you and I will never see happen.
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The only people allowed to be legal residents of Vatican City are the pope and the Cardinals. All of the cardinals were once mere bishops, and all of the bishops were of course, at one point in time, priests. In the Catholic Church, only men can be priests. The cardinals elect a new pope from among their numbers, thus the pope will always be male. That "bishop" Katherine is not a Catholic. She may claim to be, but she is not. There is a problem in the Catholic church with women claiming to be ordained priests, but they are not and will not be accepted by the higher ups. Many groups have even been officially excommunicated.
