The Catholic church & women’s ordination
Post-Dispatch religion reporter Tim Townsend mentioned
Catholic teaching on ordination i.e., the male-only priesthood, in his Saturday, May 31 column.
The Vatican has stated, not for the first time, that the topic is closed.
But there are still folks out there — you perhaps — who don’t understand the reasoning behind the church’s teaching or who think they understand and don’t approve of the reasoning.
The women’s ordination issue doesn’t have the same cachet it once did, and for good reason:
Back in the ’60’s it was a hot, new topic and it grew in intensity during the seventies and eighties when radical secular feminists — who had no use for Christ or the Catholic Church or for the sanctity of unborn human life, for that matter — took up the cry. Some men and women inside the church were swayed as well. For a highly detailed look at this recent history of the R.C. church and…
