..."One is the rigid all-male Vatican hierarchy that seems out of touch. . . . Yet there’s another Catholic Church as well, one I admire intensely. This is the grass-roots Catholic Church that does far more good in the world than it ever gets credit for. This is the church that supports extraordinary aid organizations like Catholic Relief Services and Caritas, saving lives every day, and that operates superb schools that provide needy children an escalator out of poverty.”
Kristof went on to say that “there’s a stereotype of nuns as stodgy Victorian traditionalists. I learned otherwise while hanging on for my life in a passenger seat as an American nun with a lead foot drove her jeep over ruts and through a creek in Swaziland to visit AIDS orphans.”
There are certainly bishops and cardinals who have done this sort of godly work and many more who have supported it. But those who have devoted their lives to climbing the church’s career ladder tend not to be like that nun in the jeep in Swaziland. What a message the cardinals would send about the church’s priorities if they made such a woman pope."
Marcus: Why is idea of female priests so threatening?
"...One of the central questions facing the Catholic Church – one of the stances on which Benedict was most unrelenting and on which his successor is likely to be similarly rigid – is the ordination of women.
The rational move, for a church facing a dire worldwide shortage of priests, would be to expand the pool of potential candidates. This concession to modernity would not be resisted by the faithful; polls in the United States and abroad show strong majorities in support of women serving as priests.
Instead, the church has been moving in the opposite direction, hardening the teaching against ordaining women priests and declaring this doctrine “set forth infallibly,” incapable of being changed. In 2010, the church decreed that the “attempted ordination of women” was among the list of most grievous crimes under church law, on a par with priests sexually abusing minors..."
Links:
http://news.cincinnati.com/article/20130213/COL21/302130060/Marcus-Why-is-idea-of-female-priests-so-threatening-
http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/the-best-choice-for-popenun/2013/02/15/83c8be2e-76c6-11e2-95e4-6148e45d7adb_story.htmltid=pm_opinions_pop
The rational move, for a church facing a dire worldwide shortage of priests, would be to expand the pool of potential candidates. This concession to modernity would not be resisted by the faithful; polls in the United States and abroad show strong majorities in support of women serving as priests.
Instead, the church has been moving in the opposite direction, hardening the teaching against ordaining women priests and declaring this doctrine “set forth infallibly,” incapable of being changed. In 2010, the church decreed that the “attempted ordination of women” was among the list of most grievous crimes under church law, on a par with priests sexually abusing minors..."
Links:
http://news.cincinnati.com/article/20130213/COL21/302130060/Marcus-Why-is-idea-of-female-priests-so-threatening-
http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/the-best-choice-for-popenun/2013/02/15/83c8be2e-76c6-11e2-95e4-6148e45d7adb_story.htmltid=pm_opinions_pop
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