If the church ordained women, there would be no sex abuse crisis by Eugene Kennedy, National Catholic Reporter

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If the Church Ordained Women, There Would Be No Sex Abuse Crisis

by Eugene Cullen Kennedy on May. 21, 2010 NCR Online

http://ncronline.org/blogs/bulletins-human-side/if-church-ordained-women-there-would-be-no-sex-abuse-crisis

Some years ago I asked in a column, "If the church ordained women would there be fewer abortions?" I suggested that recognizing women as fully equal with men would have obviated centuries of the repression, injustice, and pain inflicted on women and cleared the air of the edgy suspicion and anxiety with which many men, including church leaders, have regarded women throughout the centuries...

Such action would have killed Clerical Culture: Like a noxious species wiped out by a meteor before it could evolve into a monstrosity, Clerical Culture would never have come into being. Women would not have stood for it. To grow, it needed an all-male environment, an agar plate as smooth as a fairway on which women were forbidden to play..."

..."Clerical Culture was the essential breeding ground of the sex abuse crisis..."

[Eugene Cullen Kennedy is emeritus professor of psychology at Loyola University, Chicago.]

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