Women's Role in the Church

Today I would like to talk about an article I read about a women who was recently ordained as a priest. Since the Catholic Church's conception, it has not allowed women to become priests. It is a similar problem in today's socially changing modern age like married priests and birth control or abortion. The Catholic Church did not come up with these rules for themselves but they are carrying out Jesus' rules through their authority in the Church. The Church simply carries out the rules that Christ built his Church on. The Church cannot allow women to be priests because Christ only chose men as his apostles. Some people argue that Christ only chose men as his apostles because it was the custom of his time and the socially accepted way to do things. This is a bit of a silly argument because there are plenty of instances of Jesus going against society's accepted customs in the bible. For example, Jesus talks to a Samaritan women in public while getting water in the same well and she was known to be sleeping around. This was an incredible taboo for society's accepted customs in Jesus' time. We will never understand why Jesus founded the Church on the rules he did but we cannot go against Jesus. The Church cannot change these rules because if the Church goes against Jesus and, for example; made it available for women to become priests, we would become separated from Jesus and the Church would lose its authority.