text: If you want to hear the perspective of a woman who accepts Church teaching on the priesthood, I encourage you to get to know the work of Dr. Pia de Solenni, (recently appointed as Theological Consultant to the Office of the Bishop in Orange County Diocese).   Look her up on Thomas Aquinas College web site...
  
  In her words: 
  
  "In order to understand the Church’s position on this you have to go to a more metaphysical reality, and that is the relationship between Christ and the Church. From the perspective of Catholic theology, that relationship between Christ and the Church is spousal;  t’s husband and wife, bridegroom and bride. And the priest is seen as someone who — in the Latin we say is in persona Christi — he’s someone who is in the person of Christ. "   -- Dr. Pia de Solenni, from NPR Interview in 2011