"Compromised Hierarchy Needs Relational Wisdom of Women"/National Catholic Reporter/Time for Womenpriests

http://ncronline.org/news/accountability/compromised-hierarchy-needs-relational-wisdom-women
By Charlene Spretnak
"The relational wisdom of women is desperately needed if church leaders are to demonstrate that they have truly absorbed the implications of the sexual abuse scandal and are committed to a concomitant level of change. The crisis has destroyed whatever rationalization there was for the recently reinvigorated patterns of overlooking women for high administrative positions, discouraging lay ministries, disallowing altar girls, harassing communities of nuns, and refusing to even discuss female ordination. If the church is to emerge from the crisis and enter a new day, rather than being permanently degraded and diminished by it, a vital project of renewal is needed. It would involve all Catholics -- laity, nuns and priests, including the hierarchy -- in an energetic search for creative and vital means of replacing patterns of domination and control with more cooperative ways of interacting. "

I agree with this outstanding analysis by Charlene Spretnak. The Roman Catholic Church desperately needs the wisdom and leadership of women including womenpriests if it is to move forward. The hierarchy cannot afford to continue to treat women as second class citizens. It is time to embrace the wisdom of Catholic women. Bridget Mary Meehan