Letter to Editor from Bill Schuch

Catholic Women Priests & Bishops - Criminals??

The outrageous categorization by the Vatican of the ordination of women ("Vatican revises its rules on clerical sexual abuse - July 16") and the support of the ordination of women as crimes punishable by excommunication is further evidence of the seriously flawed leadership of our male-dominated Catholic Church. To characterize those as crimes and as grave an offense as pedophilia, as well as heresy, apostasy and schism, is simply off the wall.
Perhaps if all the Catholic women in all of the dioceses in the U.S. and the men who appreciate their innate sense of decency and devotion to their Church, despite their treatment as second class citizens by the Vatican and its sycophants in the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB), were to place a copy of the Associated Press article which reported this outrageous characterization in the collection basket each Sunday, instead of their usual contributions, until the real criminals - the abusers and all of the Hierarchs who covered up the sexual abuse of children are excommunicated and the USCCB publicly begs forgiveness for their fellow criminal bishops from the women who gave birth to those abused children and also apologizes for the characterization by the Vatican of women priests and bishops and those who support their ordination as criminals, perhaps then the powers that be in the chanceries of all the dioceses in the U.S. might get the message that we men are dismayed by the continued shabby treatment of our women, married or single, especially those who have true vocations to the priesthood.

Wm. J. Schuch
East Aurora, NY