American Catholic
I doubt that the Apostle's hierarchy system put in place by Jesus Christ is feudalistic. I think you need to look up the word "feudalism."
Juli
Most religions are dominated by men.
One of the most misogynistic religious cults is the jehovah's witnesses.
Chiara
as if god needed all this burocracy to connect with us.
Ghost Of Christmas Past
It's the same top-down management system used in most corporations - except the Catholic Church invented it. It's an all-male hierarchy because it consists of priests, but they rely on women to tell them what to do. Behind every great priest, there's a Mrs O'Mara telling him how he's doing everything wrong. Some of us long for the day when the Catholic Church has women priests so we can nag them. Feudalism is something rather different. If you understood feudalism, you wouldn't have asked the question.
Annsan_In_Him
Feudalism is a system of government based on relation of vassal and superior arising from holding of lands in feud; as in the rich holding a fiefdom. Although the Catholic church holds vast tracts of land, that has nothing to do with the spiritual hierarchial system it's operated since about the 4th century, that of sacerdotalism, which would make salvation to be found only in the Church and by means of its sacraments administered by its priests.
By 'Church' is meant the Roman Church, but the doctrine has been applied to themselves, and still is, by many other systems. Yet nothing is taught more clearly and insistently by the Lord and the Apostles than that the sinner’s salvation is by faith in the Son of God, in His atoning death and resurrection. A church or circle which claims that in it alone salvation is to be found; men who arrogate to themselves the power of admission to or exclusion from the Kingdom of God; sacraments or forms that are made into necessary means of salvation, give rise to tyrannies that bring untold miseries on mankind and obscure the true way of salvation that Christ has opened to all men through faith in Him.
The Bible abhors such abuse of claimed priestly, sacerdotal powers. All Christians are 'kings and priests with Christ' and they are all called 'saints' in the new testament.