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Friday, July 30, 2010

"Misogyny as church policy" by Eileen M. DiFranco/ Philadelphia Inquirer

http://www.philly.com/inquirer/opinion/20100730_Misogyny_as_church_policy.html#ixzz0v9EAHYrr

Misogyny as church policy

The equation of female ordination with pedophilia fits a Vatican pattern.

By Eileen M. DiFranco

"We might come to understand the present and anticipate the future by studying the past. And so the recent Vatican announcement equating the ordination of women with pedophilia should be seen in the context of the church's pervasive and persistent clerical misogyny throughout its history"...

..."church fathers - ranging from Tertullian to Jerome to Thomas Aquinas to the recent popes - have held in one way or another that women are unfit for the priesthood. This is due either to their inherent inferiority of character or to their lack of male body parts..."

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