text: Did the Holy Spirit weigh in on this? Did Jesus say that women should not be ordained, that then purity of her Church would diminish? I'm a man, struggling to hang on as a Catholic because of its continuing institutional irrelevance; my concern isn't equality because the Church is not a secular nor humanist organization. But it is an organization with members. And here the women's spiritual powers are being completely left out, repressed. Shining light contained is to be referred elsewhere. and we miss so much. I refuse to believe that Christ would have kept out a key spiritual source and wanted invite only membership.