[PasorBob]

I will bet a dollar to a doughnut that women will be ordained in the Catholic Church in the next 20 years.

[Grut]

From what I've read, if the Church doesn't ordain women, who are they going to ordain?

[Pyro7480]

You’ll lose that bet.

[irishjuggler]

No way, no how. It’d result in the greatest schism since Luther.

[Shady Ray]

Not a chance.

[utahagen]

No way. If anything, the Catholic Church is going to harden its line on this issue (and others). The Vatican knows its future is in emulating, and uniting with, the Orthodox Church. Women's Ordination may not have caused the downfall of Mainline Protestantism, but it sure as heck hasn't helped the Protestant Churches. Anyone inside or outside the Catholic Church who expects to see women priests is delusional. (I suspect many plain-clothesed, lefty nuns are finally realizing there's no hope for that.)

[NYer]

I will bet a dollar to a doughnut that women will be ordained in the Catholic Church in the next 20 years.

When the question of the ordination of women arose in the Anglican Communion, Pope Paul VI, out of fidelity to his office of safeguarding the Apostolic Tradition, and also with a view to removing a new obstacle placed in the way of Christian unity, reminded Anglicans of the position of the Catholic Church: "She holds that it is not admissible to ordain women to the priesthood, for very fundamental reasons. These reasons include: the example recorded in the Sacred Scriptures of Christ choosing his Apostles only from among men; the constant practice of the Church, which has imitated Christ in choosing only men; and her living teaching authority which has consistently held that the exclusion of women from the priesthood is in accordance with God's plan for his Church."(1)
ORDINATIO SACERDOTALIS

As for Grut's comment re 'who are they going to ordain' - the seminaries are filling up rapidly. In one diocese, they have a waiting list.

It is really very simple. Christ instituted the priesthood at the Last Supper. He did not invite any women. The Catholic Church holds to that Apostolic Tradition. And so does the Orthodox Church.

[Petrosius]

I will take that bet. When I win I want the doughnut, Boston Creme.

[the invisib1e hand]

I will bet a dollar to a doughnut that women will be ordained in the Catholic Church in the next 20 years.

Not in the Catholic Church, champ. Maybe some presumptuous pretender to the title, but not in the Catholic Church. It's a contradiction.

[wombtotomb]

I’ll take that bet...

[Antoninus]

I will bet a dollar to a doughnut that women will be ordained in the Catholic Church in the next 20 years.

I'll take that bet and give you 10-1 odds.

[vox_freedom]

Wrong, and you lose a dollar.

[vladimir998]

You’re going to buy us a lot of donuts.

[bboop]

No way, it will never happen. All the whining and pouting won’t make it so.