re: "please make the point in terms simple enough for me to understand"

The point is, don't attack a subject about which you have no actual knowledge. For example, I have no knowledge of brain surgery techniques, so I am hardly in a position to offer up an opinion on the subject.

re: "don't tell me it's that there exist smart, educated, happy nuns who don't feel the Church's positions on the status of women to be sexist"

Even making such a statement reveals a complete lack of understanding of Catholic theology. Is it also "sexist" because the Church does not allow men to become nuns? And as I previosuly wrote, I suggest that you personally go and talk to some nuns and ask them what they think. The very fact that they have taken vows implies that they fully understand and embrace Catholic teaching. If they do not, then they should renounce their vows, plain and simple. That is not to say that Catholics are not allowed freedom of thought or inquiry; rather, what you suggest is like someone voluntarily going through all of the preparation and education insisted upon by the Church in order to have a Catholic wedding and then saying that they don't like what that means because it won't embrace their desire to be a swinger.

re: "don't tell me the Church isn't sexist because the Church is the way God wants it to be"

"Sexist" is a political term you are trying to apply to matters of theology. If you do not embrace Catholic theology, fine. No one has a gun to your head. But to expect that Catholic theology should conform to your political notions of "sexism" is patently ridiculous. Buddhists and other religious traditions also have priests and nuns.

re: "give me some reason to believe your understanding of Catholic Theology and "Einstein's Theory" is any deeper than mine or Ms Lloyd's"

Insofar as Catholic Theology, I provided a link in another post to the Cathechism of the Catholic Church. That is the source if you wish to understand it fully. I do, though, have substantial knowledge since I am a practicing Catholic (who struggles with many of the Church's teachings and the nature of God, etc.) and have in fact studied the subject.

Insofar as Einsetin, I don't believe I have to demonstrate any particular knowledge since I have not chosen to question any of his theories - as indeed I would not, since I don't have any formal training in physics.

Which, again, is my point.

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Wholly unintentional, I assure you. However, I will do penance:

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Errors. Errors. Errors....

I'm multitasking, so my training at the Hunt & Peck school of typing is starting to show.

You'll just have to forgive.

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re: "It's just the current rulebook for the club..."

It's pretty clear that you have not read the Catechism, because if you had you would know that it references virtually all of the Doctors of the Church and is in fact wholly (though not exhaustively) representative of Catholic thought.

Rather than continuing this discussion, I suggest that you (a.) actually read the Catechism and (b.) discuss your questions about it with a few different priests and nuns.

I have.

@Pendragon3 re: "the exclusion of women from the priesthood and the papacy is sexist", etc.

This is absurd. It is no more "sexist" than the fact that men can't become nuns. The statement reveals a complete lack of understanding of Catholic theology - an understanding without which one really cannot hold a discussion, since knowledge of the subject matter in its entirety is a prerequisite.

re: "I have every right to criticize it" - True. However, there is informed criticism and there is idle criticism. You may very well have a "right" to criticize a particular technique of brain surgery, however the opinion itself is of absolutely no import, unless you happen to be a brain surgeon.

re: "I don't know how fair or accurate these criticisms are..."

Finally, some truth.