It appears that the Vatican has declared that ordaining women priests is an offence of equal severity with child sex abuse. Admittedly this only relates to Canon Law and not criminal law, but really, the same punishment for both?
On CommentisFree, Andrew Brown has some remarks about how the Vatican logic might have run on this one, which is all very well.
But for crying out loud, how much more out of touch with the rest of the world can the leaders of the Roman Catholic church get!?
Thursday, 15 July 2010
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It's ridiculous--but worse is that they're really treating the ordination of women as WORSE than sex abuse. Sure, they decided "to extend the period during which a clergyman can be tried by a church court from 10 to 20 years" but they haven't made abuse an instantly-ex-communicable offense.
ReplyDeleteA woman being ordained does not hurt, it does not maim, it does not scar. Sexual abuse does. When are they going to ACTUALLY get serious about that?