http://www.dailykos.com/story/2013/07/15/1223876/-The-Bishops-v-Birth-Control-It-s-Not-About-the-Money#
Written by Angela Bonvoglia for RH Reality Check
...."That position—blindness to women's rights and needs—has a familiar ring. It is the same refusal to see that underlies the all-male hierarchy's ban on women priests. It is the same refusal that forbids priests to marry. Indeed, at the heart of the contraception debate and so many debates around gender in the Catholic Church is a terror that if women have rights—over their own reproductive lives, to be priests, to marry priests, to have real voice and power in the Church—then the Church men will change. And if the Church men change, then the Church will change. And if the Church changes, the future that the all-male hierarchy lives in terror of—Pope Francis's nightmare of rampaging feminists, waging a "vindictive battle," steam rolling men with their "chauvinism with skirts"—will, at last, be here.
No wonder they're fighting so hard."
Bridget Mary's Response:
Amen, Angela. At the end of the day, it is all about Vatican power and control and denial of women's rights and failure to recognize women as equal images of God and partners in the Gospel. No wonder so many of the younger generation have written them off! Bridget Mary Meehan, ARCWP, www.arcwp.org
Living Gospel Inclusivity and Empowerment Now
The loss of power and control is at the heart of the Vatican's resistance to recognizing the equality of women. This saddens me as it is so obvious yet not seen by those who need to see. I honor the action of the Jesuit priest( his name escapes me) who sees the need to reject the system which oppresses women and the LGBT community. Perhaps more priests will follow his brave lead. Mary Weber ARCWP Candidate
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