The Role of Women in the Catholic Church with Anna Sutton

So it's interesting to hear that he did have that Southern Baptist background and that you had the non-denominational background.

What's really big in the news right now is the fact that the Baptist church has kind of made it known, I guess, within their doctrine that women aren't supposed to be pastors or preachers.

And I have seen people blow up on the internet about this.

They do not like this.

I haven't really seen much good press on this.

And whenever that happened, that's whenever you messaged me.

And so I was like, this might be an I don't understand fully what everything the Baptists believe and teach, but the more that I'm understanding and learning about the Catholic faith, I'm actually seeing that there's so much of a place for women within the Catholic faith and that the Bible has talked about since the very beginning and the role of women for 2000 years within the church.

So I would love for you to just at least expand on that or just tell some of our listeners what's going on with all of that, with what the Baptist SBC is doing.

It's kind of talked about with concerning women.

Yeah, I know.

It's so I really feel for women in the Southern Baptist tradition because on one hand, I don't think the Southern Baptist Church has done something bad.

Like, I think with what tools they have available to them and the teaching and stuff they have available to them, they've probably made a good choice.

Yeah.

The problem is that they've shrunk Christianity down so small.

Like, when you go to a Baptist service or a non-denom service or whatever— All it is, you sing and you hear the Bible taught and then you go home.

Like there are basically no sacraments.

I think they have marriage and do they only, maybe baptism is considered a sacrament?

Baptism, maybe, maybe.

Again, I wasn't raised Southern Baptist, but I was raised non-denominational.

So I think that within my background, it was definitely marriage.

I would say that baptism was important.

Communion was just seen as a symbol.

Yeah.

So really, there was not a whole sacramental worldview with anything that I knew.

So what you see is a lot of women saying, well, why? What about Deborah? What about these other? What about these prophetesses? What about all these other women in the Bible who had high roles of respect? Why can't we have that? Which is a completely valid question.