In an article published by USA Today, Ashley McGuire underscores the Catholic Church’s stance on a woman’s role as complementary to men while being fully equal. She shares how the Church’s female population has no issue with the priesthood being comprised of men, and that the Church, contrary to modern society, has always held a steadfast and elevated definition of womanhood. In her article, “Next pope won’t be a woman. And that’s OK with Catholic women like me,” she writes:
“I can predict only one thing with certainty about the next pope: He will be 100% biologically male.
That fact and that he will be chosen by an all-male College of Cardinals, which convenes May 7, to lead a global institution that refuses to compromise on its teaching concerning an all-male priesthood will strike many as antiquated and even offensive.
Today, the prevailing view among cultural elites has rendered them unable – or more likely, unwilling – to define what a woman is, even in the most basic biological sense.
And while our contemporary Western culture struggles to delineate “woman” in the year 2025, the church has been fine-tuning its teachings on her as complement to man while fully his equal since anno Domini (A.D.) year 1.”
