text: To insist that there are iron clad reasons why women cannot be ordained, stemming all the way back to Jesus' intentions for the church, is an attempt to avoid all questions around ordination and the sacraments.  Questions like:  did Jesus establish a hierarchical church with a system of male orders? ...  if ordination is linked to the Last Supper, then assuming only 12 male apostles had been recipients of the sacrament of Ordination and Eucharist, wouldn't this line of thinking  lead one to question that women and children, due to their absence,  would  also be excluded from the Eucharist!  Such inconsistencies might even lead to questions around all the sacraments that catechism  answers no longer for in-depth believers.
  Inconsistencies, pat answers, and "because I said so",  do not cut it in this age...they only create reasons for the increasing decline in participation within the institutional catholic church.