Some recent developments on that document i discussed in my previous post. Closer examination reveals that it put the attempt to ordain women on a list of the “more grave delicts,” or offenses, which included pedophilia, as well as heresy, apostasy and schism.
Some folks outside the Vatican found it a bit much to equate pedophilia with suggesting that women should be ordained, but His Excellency Archbishop Donald W. Wuerl of Washington praised the document as "a welcome statement" and went on to explain, "The Catholic Church through its long and constant teaching holds that ordination has been, from the beginning, reserved to men, a fact which cannot be changed despite changing times.”
Jon Carroll, in a splendid recent column in The San Francisco Chronicle, described this statement as "the worst kind of arrant nonsense" and supported his assessment by simply substituting slavery for ordination of women. "The Catholic Church through its long and constant teaching holds that slavery has been, from the beginning, reserved to dark people, a fact which cannot be changed despite changing times.”
Oh, but the gyrations of the Vatican in their attempts to support this ridiculous document became even more hideous. Monsignor Charles Scicluna, the Vatican’s sex crimes prosecutor, explained why the document contained no requirement that clerical sexual abuse be reported to secular authorities: “It’s not for canonical legislation to get itself involved with civil law.” Well, of course not, not when we could keep the crimes covered up within the church.
They are cornered rats, and, as Carroll observed, "The cluelessness of the Roman Catholic Church is jaw-dropping."
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