(Vatican) "New Norms Are Much More Than PR Disaster"/"Spiritual Violence" Ag. Women

by Jamie L Manson on Jul. 23, 2010 NCR Online

http://ncronline.org/blogs/young-voices/new-norms-are-much-more-pr-disaster

• "In reading about the Vatican's calling clergy sexual abuse and the ordination of women equally delectia gavioria (or grave sins), I was struck by how many commentators reduced this incident to yet another public relations disaster for the Roman Catholic church."....

"For women across the globe, it is so much more than this. It is a statement of profound spiritual violence against half of the human race already routinely victimized on the basis of their God-given anatomy. .."

..."This latest act of codified violence against women leads me to ask: Why shouldn't Catholic women allow God to act to God's fullest potential in them? Why shouldn't they seek ordination or create lay-led eucharistic communities that will truly nurture anyone who seeks the peace, community, sacramental nourishment, and social justice that is sorely lacking both in our society and in our church?"

[Jamie Manson is a lay minister who has worked extensively with New York City's homeless and poor populations.]