[xone]

The will of the Lord? If Christ were preaching today, you really think he would advocate treating women, or anyone, as second class citizens? His treatment of women and other subjugated people was remarkably advanced in its time. Why would you think it would be so backward now?

I'm not a Catholic. You think Jesus would have modified His Message because of the times? His treatment of women would have been the same today as it was then, because the way the Lord treated people is the way people should treat one another.

[TraditionalistMommy]

Jesus knew his audience, and used a template people were able to understand and relate to at the time. I’ve yet to meet a Catholic priest who would tell you otherwise.

[maryz]

You think Jesus would have modified His Message because of the times?

Good point! It rather bemuses (and rather amuses) me when people claiming to be Christian use the argument that something-or-other in Christianity is only because Christ lived in such benighted times. Do they really think that if only God had thought about it a bit more or were a little bit smarter, Christ would have been born in a more enlightened age, one rather like our own, in fact? ;-)