text: I suggest you dig a bit deeper yourself.  
  
  You keep saying this - but several of us have asked you to provide some substantive proof (which means proof - not opinion pieces) that women have "held this post"(priest") - and you never do.
  
  And what does it matter that some women and lay leaders are in charge of parishes?  They are NOT ordained priests - as even you mention.  They may offer Word and Communion services - but they are NOT ordained in any sense of the word.  None of what you have mentioned counteracts what I said - there are NO women priests in the (Roman) Catholic Church.  
  
  As far as paying their clergy directly - yes.  A Church tax.  So??  IS that what you are recommending - you would like the government to collect the tax and distribute it to the clergy?  Uh-huh.....