International Women's Day

[ahmed aljuboori]

I do agree with you about the role of woman  and her positions of religious laedership but in a way that differs from that in the society he lives in. Here, in the middle east ,especially Arab countries, women are unhappy , in general, with the life in the west. this is due to the difference in life, traditions and culture. 
    In Islam ,especailly the early period when the Prophet Mohammed( Peace and Blessing be upon him) lived in , his wives palyed a great role in the religious life . They told munslims many of his teachings , his life with his wives in particular. He was assisitning them in their affairs, paying attention to their concenrs and supporting them .
  Many of the conquests of him and his companions or followers were supported by nurses and sometimes these women were fighting with men . They do that for the sake of Allah to be rewarded paradise.
       May be, In christianity, teh idea is different. However, I dont think it is possible to elected woman Pope.
  women work at home and take care of their children. They support their husbands  when they raise up their kids in the right way which is basically taken from their traditions and religion.More than  90% of women are unwilling to participate in the political life and other institutional activities although laws and constitutions allow them and insure thier rights to do.
   
   
  Ahmed M. Salih
   
  
Luis Gutierrez <LTG214B at VERIZON.NET> wrote:
  Kenneth Hyde wrote:

> While I'm not going to argue with the basic premise here (I agree that 
> there needs to be a larger number of women in positions of religious 
> leadership), I would like to point out that there are many women who 
> are in positions of leadership and power within the Catholic church: 
> the mothers superior of the various convents. Historically, some of 
> these women have wielded enough power to affect church policy and 
> doctrine. While the current picture within the Catholic Church is 
> fairly bleak, let's not make it worse than it already is by ignoring 
> the bright lights that do exist.

Just for clarification ... by canon law, only those who are ordained 
(i.e., deacons, priests, bishops) can have authentically sacramental 
roles of authority in the Roman Catholic Church. Certainly, many women 
have been influential in the history of the church. Mother superiors 
cannot hear confessions or celebrate the eucharist for their nuns. It 
is not a matter of "ignoring the bright lights that do exist." It is a 
matter of recognizing that only ordained males can represent God and act 
sacramentally "in persona Christi." This is a shameful situation, and 
one that harms both men and women in church and society. Tokenism will 
not do. I recently read a very interesting article:

South America and Women in Government
By Justin Vogler, The Globalist, 10 March 2006
http://www.theglobalist.com/storyid.aspx?StoryId=5163

I think the last three paragraphs are especially interesting:

"I asked Marta Lagos whether the number of women in power reflects a 
change in attitudes towards women in South America. “Politics is 
changing much quicker than society,” she replied. “It will take 
generations before fundamental attitudes change, but it is a step forward.”

"Angelica Vargas is 18 years old. She lives in a lower-middle class 
neighborhood in the Chilean port of Valparaiso and wants to study 
accounting. I asked her if a female president would change men’s 
attitudes towards women in Chile.

“Nothing changes,” cried Angelica. “What does it matter who the 
president is? The men around here are all terribly sexist — and they are 
going to go on being sexist.” She paused for an instant and then added: 
“What might help is if they elected a woman Pope.”"

Get the point?

Luis


		
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