Female Priests as Sinful as Child Abuse, says Vatican
I could not believe this headline, when I saw it in The Times today.
But as it is in a nrespaper of record and by their respected religion correspondent, Ruth Gledhill, I’ll accept what it says, as a disgraceful statement, that completely betrays all those myriads of children, who have been abused by those who belong in one way or another to the Roman Catholic Church. I know quite a few Catholics, including a couple of judges, and I suspect most of them will be as horrified as I am by this report from the Vatican. The few crumbs of comfort in the statement, is that the Vatican has tightened the rules on abuse, and made it easier to dismiss and prosecute an abuser. Everyone who abuses a child, should be immeditely turned over to the police, so that they can suffer, the full and fair force of the law. If anybody, such as a bishop, protects an abuser, he should be prosecuted as well!
The Anonymous Widower 
I completely agree, it is a appalling and an insult both the the abused children and to the women who feel the call to priesthood.
Comment by Liz P | July 16, 2010 |