http://blogs.alternet.org/speakeasy/2010/07/15/catholic-church-women-are-as-bad-as-pedophiles/
It’s hard work keeping an institution stuck in the 1400s. Sometimes, reversing centuries of social progress requires taking unpopular stands, like comparing uppity women to abusive pedophile priests. From the Guardian:
The Vatican today made the “attempted ordination” of women one of the gravest crimes under church law, putting it in the same category as clerical sex abuse of minors, heresy and schism.
The new rules, which have been sent to bishops around the world, apply equally to Catholic women who agree to a ceremony of ordination and to the bishop who conducts it. Both would be excommunicated. Since the Vatican does not accept that women can become priests, it does not recognize the outcome of any such ceremony.
The latest move, which appeared to bar and bolt the door to Catholic women priests, came at a time when the Church of England moved in the opposite direction, to a step closer to the ordination of female bishops.
The Vatican’s reclassification of attempted female ordination was part of a revision of a 2001 decree, the main purpose of which was to tighten up the rules on sex abuse by priests in reaction to the scandals that have been sweeping through the church since January. The most important change is to extend the period during which a clergyman can be tried by a church court from 10 to 20 years, dating from the 18th birthday of his victim.
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July 15, 2010 at 4:27 pm
This is really the most ridiculous thing I’ve heard for a long time. I can’t help but think there’s some kind of weird preparing for some imagined psychotic event going on here.
It seems that we have to do it for ourselves, these men and their cowed womenfolk aren’t going to help, except to rush us into the apocalypse they desire so much.
July 16, 2010 at 3:39 am
The Vatican has declared that women priests are not only as bad as paedophiles, but they are to be excomunicated along with any bishop who ordains them.
Paedophiles are not excomunicated from the catholic church. They are sent to a psychiatrist, who gives them a holiday and a letter stating they are cured, then given a new parish were they can start abusing again and cover there tracks better.
The former hitler youth pope may have diplomatic immunity, but with the sheer number of paedophile cases worldwide, it is time to bring him to an international court and try him for obstructing justice in tens of thousands of cases worldwide.
Also Martin Kafka is an advisor to the catholic church on sexual matters. He is on the DSM V revision with Raymond Blanchard and a co-author of Blanchards. Hatred of the vagina appears to blinkering every thought they have.
For more information see:
Vatican labels the ordination of women a ‘grave crime’ to be dealt with in the same way as sex abuse
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http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/eu…es-2027722.html
Vatican: Appointing women priests same as abusing children
http://www.indianexpress.com/comments/vati…children/647221
Vatican toughens sex abuse rules: But revisions targeting pedophile priests draw fire for calling women’s ordination equally grave sin
http://www.thestar.com/news/world/vatican/…sex-abuse-rules
Vatican issues new rules on abuse by priests; activists call them inadequate
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/conte…?hpid=sec-world
Vatican Equates Women’s Ordination with Priest Pedophilia?
http://www.religiondispatches.org/archive/…iest_pedophilia
Vatican: Female priests as bad as paedophiles
http://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/news/wor…s-14877902.html
Vatican Rules: Ordaining Women Priests a Crime Like Sex Abuse of Children
http://www.politicsdaily.com/2010/07/09/va…e-sex-abuse-of/