text: Jesus choose a whole company of people---women as well as men.  Check out the Gospels dealing with the Resurrection.  Jesus permitted women to sit at his feet as disciples [the only Rabbi in all of Palestine to do so].  
  
  Jesus did not anoint anybody with oil, did not consecrate anyone as a priest.  Besides, to whom did Jesus first appear?  To Peter?  No!  Jesus knew very well who was faithful to him to the end.  Again, women held the title of apostle and deacon in the early Church as well.  
  
  There is enough documented evidence that women held church offices in the early church.  Do you know that bishops were married and that if they died, their wives had the title of bishop as well.  That is documented evidence in from some of Europe's early cathedrals.  The Vatican needs to remove its blinders.