HOW rare and refreshing it is to see men in charge, exercising their rightful public authority. Feminism has not conquered all. Whatever may be said about the liberalism within it, the Catholic Church remains steadfastly masculine at the top, as is seen in this image of the papal conclave. No other major institution in the West forthrightly prohibits women from leadership.

How endlessly stupid it is for people to say such exclusiveness is anti-woman. Such charges are an affront to men. They are expressions of hatred toward men because they presume male indifference and even contempt for women. They are based on wicked and hateful assumptions. Such claims are at odds with reality and the inexpressible interdependence of men and women. God made two sexes to elevate us, to bring us closer to the heights. Only a weak and insecure woman —  a woman who is oblivious to her own strengths — takes offense at the sight of an all-male gathering.

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A Grateful Reader writes:

In fact, it is good to see men serving God and thus serving others. Men must be trained to serve and to lead. The vocation of altar boy thus also ought to remain exclusively male. The original purpose of placing boys in the altar was to train them to become priests and deacons. (The term for an altar boy in Greek is “papadaki” which means “little priest.”)

Whenever parishioners suggest that women should be allowed to become priests and deacons because the Church needs more priests and deacons, I respond, “Do you think the vocations are good enough for your daughters but not good enough for your sons?”

John E. writes:

Proph at the Orthosphere asked for others to join him in prayer specifically for the selection of the next pope.  No doubt this has occurred to many already, but perhaps included in the intentions for which one’s Lenten sacrifices are being offered, also include the intention of wisdom and guidance for this institution, the Church, which for all her faults, still stands out in great peculiarity in the West, as you have noted.

As Proph acknowledges, there is great evil afoot, and there is little doubt that the evil is present in some form or another behind the locked doors of the Conclave.  In this matter, as with others we face in our day, let us remember our Lord’s guidance, that there is evil of a kind that “is not cast out but by prayer and fasting.”

Buck writes:

From Fox News yesterday:

Demonstrations took place across the United States and internationally to protest the male-only conclave to elect the next pope.

Members of a church in Sarasota sent up their own smoke signals Tuesday — not black or white, but pink.

They gathered at the St. Andrews UCC Church in Sarasota. The vigil was one of many held on Tuesday around the globe. Not all were so peaceful though: a melee ensued outside the Vatican Tuesday when two female activists who went topless were dragged away from St. Peter’s Square.

The Sarasota group, though, gathered in a circle to pray, and they say their hope is for a more progressive pope.

“There’s one point plus billion Roman Catholics. 500 million women. All cultures, all languages, throughout the world living today, are not represented in the conclave. Not one woman,” said Katy Zatsick, with the Mary Mother of Jesus Inclusive Catholic Community.

Zatsick says she hopes for a “Pope John XXIV” — someone who models himself after Pope John XXIII, who presided over the

Second Vatican Council in the 1960s, which ushered in major changes for the Catholic Church.

The cardinals at the Vatican will resume their voting process Wednesday morning.

Laura writes:

What idiocy.

Once again we see how feminists inadvertently justify what they despise. St. Peter’s would be pink if they had their way.

Vicki Hassessian writes:

Bravo!!!

Nick writes:

Truly glorious and moving. While I am an atheist, I certainly agree with the broader strokes and general thrust of what you’ve said.

While I’m shooting this off, I should say that I’ve been interested by something lately mostly whenever I read your blog. Though I still consider myself a Marxist to a certain extent, there’s a rather unholy ideological soup in which I exist. One with an interest in race, and an opposition to capitalism and religion. I am well aware that the history of such ideological nexus has been horrific and grim.

In any event, thanks as always for adding a little something extra into my brain every day. Today’s piece was very heartfelt, I can tell.

Laura writes:

Merci, mon ami.

Michael S. writes:

Nick writes:

“I am well aware that the history of such ideological nexus has been horrific and grim.”

And yet, you’re still in that soup. What does that tell you?

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