If Only Women Were in Charge
April 16, 2010
IN THE WASHINGTON POST, Peggy Noonan suggests sex scandal in the Catholic Church could have been avoided if women had been at the helm:
The old Vatican needs new blood.
They need to let younger generations of priests and nuns rise to positions of authority within a new church. Most especially and most immediately, they need to elevate women. As a nun said to me this week, if a woman had been sitting beside a bishop transferring a priest with a history of abuse, she would have said: “Hey, wait a minute!”
Natassia writes:
This struck me as rather sexist…as if there hasn’t been a well-documented history of mothers covering-up the abuse (sexual, physical, etc.) of their children by husbands, boyfriends, or male relatives.
Laura writes:
It is also profoundly anti-Catholic. There is no justification in Church teaching for raising women to positions of authority.
