http://www.religiondispatches.org/archive/sexandgender/2954/vatican_equates_women%E2%80%99s_ordination_with_priest_pedophilia/
Religion Dispatches Magazine/Mary Hunt
"Vatican Equates Ordination With Priest Pedophilia"
"First, the institutional church recognizes that women are being ordained both by the Roman Catholic Womenpriests initiative and in other congregational settings...
...Second, since its male priests are among those who will be sanctioned, the Vatican is obviously worried that the tide has turned against it inside as well as outside. Maryknoll priest Roy Bourgeois participated in a women’s ordination celebration in 2008 and was told to recant his actions... More likely, it is a warning to other priests who might break clerical ranks and stand with feminists in ministry...
Third, by drawing attention to women’s ordination, even if it is a tactic to distract attention from the pedophilia crimes and cover-ups, the Vatican is signaling its own desperate situation. Rumors of internal dissention in the Vatican ranks are rampant... "
Vatican Document Linking Women's Ordination with Pedophilia:
http://visnews-en.blogspot.com/2010/07/modifications-made-in-normae-de.html
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