text: A Church that proclaims ‘… in Christ there is neither male nor female” as part of the inspired Word of God in Holy Scripture, and then organises itself on the basis of gender, clearly hasn’t got the message it proclaims.  St. Paul had no trouble following Jesus in thought, word and deed by including women in his ministry.  Indeed, St. Paul names a female apostle.  The suggestion that the Church has a ‘vocations crisis’ only masks the tragic fact that the crisis is the hierarchy’s inability to comprehend the reality proclaimed by St. Paul, namely that "in Christ there is neither male nor female."  Perhaps more  young people would ‘hear the  call’ if the men running our beloved Church followed the example of St. Paul.  And it help to allow our priests to, like St. Peter, enter into the holy state of matrimony.