re: #3 wrenchwench

From the second link:

Why doesn’t that apply to ordaining women, too?

They are choosing words carefully to try to sound reasonable, but they can’t explain why this one area, administering sacraments, has to be off-limits for women. There is no way to say women belong everywhere else but not here, without saying men are superior. As always, I feel like they are trying to fool people.

For accuracy, women can perform at least 2 of the 7 sacraments, and an ordinary priest can do only two more. (The extreme edges of Confession are dicey, and only a bishop can do Confirmation and Holy Orders.)

You may now feel less inferior.