"Cardinal Crimes"

Cardinal Crimes (A Rant)

Article Link:
http://www.newcatholictimes.com/index.php?module=articles&func=display&aid=1915&ptid=1
Site Name: New Catholic TimesSite URL: http://www.newcatholictimes.com/

"Let me get this straight: According to the Church, for a woman to respond to a perceived call to ordination from the Holy Spirit, for a woman to strive to serve her community as priest, for a woman to take a leadership role within the Roman Catholic Church is a ...crime? And this crime is of the same magnitude (delicta graviora) as to transgress against the very dignity of a child in all their vulnerability by subjecting them to sexual abuse?

The Vatican has trumped itself once again. Just when we thought they could not top their own sexism, just when we thought their arrogance was at its peak, just when we thought their ignorance could grow no more, they surprise us with a twist so palpably naïve, so tangibly disordered, so blatantly sinful, you couldn't make it up..."