text: Saint Ignatius  in his spiritual exercises outlined a path for discerning the nature of the spirit whispering in our ear. Just as Eve was deceived, men and women down the ages have been.
  
  One doesn't have to be an ordained priest to offer spiritual insights or to serve God in the role He's calling one too. What's with the desire for "leadership" and control? We're called to service. The priest is restricted to men because that's God's will. This isn't a political/sociological question. And to say God incarnate was constrained by His culture is, frankly, ludicrous. Jesus, if He had so desired, was more than able to appoint women Apostles. Some even have the delusion that He did and the big , bad early Apostles wrote them out of history.