In the enlightened times after the Second Vatican Council, sexism was declared a sin.
Once, the church joined some of the modern world and embraced chastely, of course, the liberation of women, their ban on women priests became difficult to defend. They tried to blame Jesus. Vatican theologian, Ignatius Enjoyboise writes: "we want to ordain women priests since sexism is a sin but that Jesus only chose male apostles..."
Msgr I. Enjoyboise cites the long tradition within the Eastern Christian Orthodox Church of ordaining only men:" We feel comforted in our ban of women priests because we are in the company of Greek, Serbian and Russian men. Their tradition reaches back to Jesus and the ancient church."
When asked about Jesus' choice of some married apostles and the Orthodox practice of ordaining married men over and against the Roman Catholic ban on a married clergy, Enjoyboise pointed out that the Roman Catholic Church does not subscribe to a slavishly fundamentalist following of Jesus nor does it want to imitate the pope-hating, filioque heretics from the East. Enjoyboise used himself as an example: As a good RC Monsignor, I do not subscribe to the Eastern practices, I subscribe to the Journal of the Man- Boy Love League."
