Vatican calls women's ordination a grave crime against the Church,

[Matilda]

ranking it alongside child sexual abuse.

And here's the reply from the Women's Ordination Conference:

"Washington, DC - "The Vatican's decision list women’s ordination in the same category as pedophiles and rapists is appalling, offensive, and a wake-up call for all Catholics around the world. This new canonical declaration which names women's ordination as a serious crime against the Roman Catholic Church is medieval at best. The idea that a woman seeking to spread the message of God somehow "defiles" the Eucharist reveals an antiquated, backwards Church that still views women as "unclean" and unholy."

http://www.womensordination.org/content/view/315/42/


They have an online petition against the ruling; it's worldwide, so I've signed it. If you agree that this pronouncement is medieval, please think about adding your name.

Women – the religious, the laity, married, unmarried, mothers and sisters and daughters, make up more than half the church's population. How dare they rank us with criminals!

[hedgehog]

1. I disagree entirely Matilda.

I read an essay tracing this attitude toward women and the assumption that the Pope as pater familis is all powerful over every other member of the Church back to the civil law in the Roman Empire when Constantine made Christianity the official religion.

So you see, this pronouncement isn't medieval, it's either Roman and/or Byzantine!

;-)



The statement is at the link you gave, to sign it go to

http://www.womensordination.org/component/option,com_chronocontact/chronoformname,delicta_gravioria/