Not a Monkeys Uncle
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And we run "a bishop has to be a Catholic man". That's all. Study history. Many bishops had not been priests. And this "man" is perhaps nothing else than a mistake - what I show when I write "human being" instead.
You have used that little word game several times and I am not really interested in it.
The manner in which bishops have been chosen has changed over 2,000 years, that is true. But I am in the here and now, and today, by the authority vested in it by Jesus Christ, the Magisterium of the Church only makes bishops out of existing priests. That is how it is done.
And the same reason a woman cannot be a priest is the same reason a woman cannot be a bishop. To be ordained one must celebrate the rite of Holy Orders, and Holy Orders is a sacrament, and having a woman would invalidate the sacrament.
And for about the fifth time, The Supreme Pontiff has stated infallibly and for all time to come until the end of the world, there will be no women priests. That ends the discussion for Catholic. PERIOD!!
Now for God's sakes, please, stop peppering me with crap. It is what it is.
Don't like it? Then join another Church.