text: "Even women"? The author does not consider the possibility that honorable young men today have no wish to join a misogynist organization. They do not approve of such.
  
  "Priesthood and religious life were taken off their pedestals" by Vatican II? Hardly. Vatican II spawned a previously unheard of emphasis on an "in persona Christi" priesthood, where the priest is elevated as a Jesus-representative, and acts "in the person of Christ." The basis for this "in persona" clericalism was the Vulgate translation of 2 Co 2:10 which has since been superseded by the Catholic NAB/NABRE Bible to read "in the presence of Christ," not in the person of. A Vatican house of cards now without a foundation. We do not need 'divine' priests or 'infallible' popes.
  
  It would be a sin to increase the discrimination and misogyny in the Church for the convenience of making more priests, while barring women and LGBT. Jesus said, "Do this in memory of me," to all disciples present, both men AND women.
  
  Equal rites.