It is a Great Injustice to Link Homosexuality with Pedophilia Says Vatican, Also Grave Injustice to Link Women's Ordination with Pedophilia

https://www.newsweek.com/its-great-injustice-link-homosexuality-pedophilia-hurts-faithful-gay-priests-vatican-1477089

My Response: It is a great injustice' to link homosexuality and pedophilia. 

It is also a great injustice to call women's ordination , "one of the gravest crimes" and link it with pedophilia. (See article below)

 It is time for Pope Francis to correct this great injustice. This would be one positive step he could take to signal a change in direction toward a more open and loving Church that affirms primacy of conscience as a basic human and spiritual right in the Roman Catholic Church. 

The love we share, in the Body of Christ here and now should be reflected in the words we say. St Paul's words on our radical equality in Christ moves us to action in prophetic obedience to the Spirit as we ordain women today. "There is neither Jew nor Gentile, neither slave nor free, nor is there male and female, for you are all one in Christ Jesus." (Galatians 3:28)

The Roman Catholic Women Priests Movement is leading the Church by iiving the vision of Jesus - welcoming everyone to the Table- in grassroots communities and ministries in a dozen countries and in 34 states in the United States. 

Wisdom is vindicated by her works. (Matthew 11:19)


Bridget Mary Meehan ARCWP, https://arcwp.org

(See article below describing Catholic reaction to 2010  Vatican decision in the Guardian.)

"Catholics angry as church puts female ordination on par with sex abuse"

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2010/jul/15/vatican-declares-womens-ordination-grave-crime

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Women's groups describe Vatican's decision on female ordination as 'appalling'

John Hooper in Rome and Haroon Siddique

Thu 15 Jul 2010 16.03 EDTFirst published on Thu 15 Jul 2010 16.03 EDT

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 Three ‘bishops’ at the ordination of a female French priest in Lyons in 2005. All four women were excommunicated. From left: South African Patricia Fresen, Austrian Christine Mayr-Lumetzberger and German Gisela Forster. Photograph: Jean-Pierre Clatot/AFP

"It was meant to be the document that put a lid on the clerical sex abuse scandals that have swept the Roman Catholic world. But instead of quelling fury from within and without the church, the Vatican stoked the anger of liberal Catholics and women's groups by including a provision in its revised decree that made the "attempted ordination" of women one of the gravest crimes in ecclesiastical law.

The change put the "offence" on a par with the sex abuse of minors.

Terry Sanderson, president of the National Secular Society, called the document "one of the most insulting and misogynistic pronouncements that the Vatican has made for a very long time. Why any self-respecting woman would want to remain part of an organisation that regards their full and equal participation as a 'grave sin' is a mystery to me..."

Vivienne Hayes, the chief executive of the Women's Resource Centre, said the decision to raise women's ordination to the level of a serious crime was "appalling"...