Google – AFP, Robert MacPherson, 3 December 2012
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Clouds form
over the Vatican (AFP/File, Tiziana Fabi)
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WASHINGTON
— An independent Roman Catholic newspaper in the United States called Monday
for a campaign to reverse the Vatican's refusal to allow women to become
priests.
"Barring
women from ordination to the priesthood is an injustice that cannot be allowed
to stand," the National Catholic Reporter said, waving a red flag in front
of the Vatican over one of its most strongly held teachings.
The call to
the priesthood "is a gift from God," it said, and excluding women
from responding to that call "has no strong basis in Scripture or any
other compelling rationale."
With
bishops and theologians on record as opposing women's ordination, the
Missouri-based biweekly -- a respected voice of the Church's reformist wing --
said it now fell upon the faith's rank and file to press for change.
"We
must speak up in every forum available to us: in parish council meetings,
faith-sharing groups, diocesan convocations and academic seminars," it
said. "We should write letters to our bishops, to the editors of our local
papers and television news channels."
There was
no immediate reaction from the US Conference of Catholic Bishops, which toes a
conservative line on other hot-button issues such as abortion, contraception
and gay marriage.
The United
States has the largest Catholic population of any rich country, with a quarter
of its 310 million people belonging to the faith -- a proportion sustained by
Latino immigration.
The
editorial was prompted by last month's excommunication and expulsion of Father
Roy Bourgeois from the Maryknoll order for his role in a women's ordination
ceremony in Kentucky in 2008.
In a
statement on November 19, the order said Bourgeois, a priest for 39 years, had
acted "without the permission" of local bishops "while ignoring
the sensitivities of the faithful across the country."
"Disobedience
and preaching against the teaching of the Catholic Church about women's
ordination led to his excommunication, dismissal and laicization," it
said.
The
Vatican's Code of Canon Law states that "a baptized male alone receives
sacred ordination validly." Church leaders insist that is an infallible
rule that can never be changed.
Erin Saiz
Hanna, executive director of the Women's Ordination Conference, said the
National Catholic Reporter editorial comes at an important time for Catholics
"fed up with the Vatican's hypocrisy and bullying."
Her
organization, based in Washington, was founded in 1975 to campaign for women to
become priests and bishops.
"While
Father Roy suffers the severest sanctions possible in our Catholic tradition,
bishops who fail to protect children from pedophile priests often quietly walk
away without punishment or censure," she said in an email to AFP.
The
editorial, she said, "resonates with a much larger church -- the church of
the people of God who grasp that men and women are both created equal and that
both men and women experience the same calls to priesthood."
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The women
timed the protest to coincide with the final days
of the Vatican's Year for
Priests.
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