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.
