text: I suggest that you study some Church history.  Women have held this post and more.
  
  
  Also, in Europe---there are places only seven hours from the Vatican by train, where women [we would call them Coordinators of Parish Life, are ACTUALLY in charge of parishes.  In a deanery around Zurich there are 40 parishes. Twenty-six of them are led by lay leaders [most by women].  Oh, there's a 'titular' priest in charge in these palaces [ages of priests are 89, 91 and 92], but the women are in charge.  They baptize [any Catholic can], they preach the word, distribute Communion [pre-consecrated], counsel Catholic [let them share what is in their hearts---and then they pray an act of Contrition [priests haven't been in for Confessions for decades].  AND in Switzerland, the people pay their clergy [and these lay leaders] directly.  It doesn't come from the Diocese.  The bishops of Zurich comes to see what the people think about these lay leaders---and the people LOVE THEM.  The wave of the future!