Hallelujah, the Catholic Church's inquisition against its American nuns is over!
Pope Francis made a point of praising these women in his speech at St. Patrick's Cathedral in New York
City on September 24.
http://www.religionnews.com/2015/09/24/st-patricks-cathedral-pope-embraces-nuns-vatican-fire/
The Leadership Conference of Women Religious is officially off the hook and publicly praised.
But really, not much has changed. The Women's Ordination Conference was not praised or mentioned.
http://www.womensordination.org/
Earlier this week Fr. Jack McClure was removed from ministry for speaking at the Women's Ordination Worldwide conference in Philadelphia on the weekend of Sept. 20-21. He is the fourth priest to be sanctioned for supporting the ordination of women.
http://www.womensordination.org/2015/09/23/fr-jack-mcclure-removed-from-ministry-for-speaking-at-womens-ordination-worldwide-conference/
Francis is correcting the error of his most recent predecessor, but he has not yet crossed the big line of changing women's second-class status in the church.
Words are cheap. Ending the mistaken oppression of of women by Pope Benedict XVI is a no-brainer.
If these are preliminary steps to actual change for Catholic women, I will applaud Pope Francis.
But if he is just being nice to women without substantive change down the road, may he have a road-to-Damascus event like St. Paul.
May he hear the voice of God and be blinded--so that his eyes may be opened.
Pope Francis made a point of praising these women in his speech at St. Patrick's Cathedral in New York
City on September 24.
http://www.religionnews.com/2015/09/24/st-patricks-cathedral-pope-embraces-nuns-vatican-fire/
The Leadership Conference of Women Religious is officially off the hook and publicly praised.
But really, not much has changed. The Women's Ordination Conference was not praised or mentioned.
http://www.womensordination.org/
Earlier this week Fr. Jack McClure was removed from ministry for speaking at the Women's Ordination Worldwide conference in Philadelphia on the weekend of Sept. 20-21. He is the fourth priest to be sanctioned for supporting the ordination of women.
http://www.womensordination.org/2015/09/23/fr-jack-mcclure-removed-from-ministry-for-speaking-at-womens-ordination-worldwide-conference/
Francis is correcting the error of his most recent predecessor, but he has not yet crossed the big line of changing women's second-class status in the church.
Words are cheap. Ending the mistaken oppression of of women by Pope Benedict XVI is a no-brainer.
If these are preliminary steps to actual change for Catholic women, I will applaud Pope Francis.
But if he is just being nice to women without substantive change down the road, may he have a road-to-Damascus event like St. Paul.
May he hear the voice of God and be blinded--so that his eyes may be opened.
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