What is fucked up? The claim that your clerics and holy Joes viewed women and children as lesser souls?
Take women alone. Let's take even their own women. Can you explain to the forum why your precious catholic patriarchy viewed women as "not capable" of the full office of priests? Why did they view womanhood as something to be ashamed of within religious life?
You're level of ignorance is astounding. Your knowledge of the Catholic Faith is like pretty much everyone else born after the 1960's....completely non-existent. You're not qualified to even ask basic questions. You prefer to just 'make shit up'. You have an 'Evening Herald/Sun Newspaper' reader level of understanding of Catholicism. Equal to a taxi driver who failed his Junior Cert.
Your question exemplifies the terminal ignorance of the conciliarised mind. The Catholic Church has never declared women "not capable" of priestly orders out of some crude patriarchal contempt for their intellect or virtue. Quite the contrary: Holy Mother Church has exalted women to heights unknown in the pagan or Talmudic worlds; the Blessed Virgin as
Theotokos and Queen of Heaven, female Doctors of the Church like Catherine of Siena and Teresa of Avila, and a legion of saints, abbesses, and mystics who directed kings and popes. The restriction flows not from deficiency but from the immutable divine constitution of the priesthood, which your sort reduces to a mere power grab because the supernatural has been excised from your worldview.
Christ chose
twelve men as Apostles in deliberate continuity with the patriarchal order of creation and the Old Covenant. He did so while surrounded by holy women and elevating them in ways that scandalised the rabbis. The priest does not act as a generic functionary but
in persona Christi Capitis, signifying the spousal mystery: Christ the Head wedded to the Church His Bride. Christ was a man, so priests operating in persona Christi are also men. This is not a cultural relic but sacramental realism rooted in the nuptial economy of salvation, as the Fathers, Aquinas, and the unbroken Magisterium attest.
Inter Insigniores reiterate what the Apostles handed down: the Church has no authority to confer this on women, for it would falsify the icon of Redemption itself. To pretend otherwise is to embrace the Gnostic leveling of sexual difference that the Revolution demands. This is where ignoramuses' like you stand.
This is the constant Tradition of two millennia, not the "precious patriarchy" of your fevered imagining. Your question is the product of post-Vatican II catechetical collapse and feminist propaganda, blind to the complementarity that honors womanhood in its Marian genius rather than aping masculine orders. Study the sources, Scripture, the Fathers, the Scholastics; before parading such superficiality in the forum. The true Doctors would diagnose this as the
superbia of the Modernist, mistaking ignorance for insight. Repent of the spirit of the age and submit to the Faith once delivered to the saints!
When it comes to discussing REAL Catholicism and it's history, you are clearly out of your comfort zone.