Good article in Newsweek this week by Lisa Miller. The title inside, "A Woman's Place is in the Church" is of couse a big duh for most of us, except if you live in the Vatican.
I could come up with some equally bad things to say about undiluted women, to be fair. But this is no time to worry about being fair to men. Let’s be fair to women for, say, a couple thousand years, and after that maybe I’ll be ready to take on being fair to everyone at the same time.
We all know that this stuff never would’ve happened with the Sisters in charge.
“The cause of the Catholic clergy’s sex-abuse scandal is no mystery: insular groups of men often do bad things.”
That’s the crux of it right there. You put a bunch of men together and leave them unsupervised, some form of destruction is bound to happen.I could come up with some equally bad things to say about undiluted women, to be fair. But this is no time to worry about being fair to men. Let’s be fair to women for, say, a couple thousand years, and after that maybe I’ll be ready to take on being fair to everyone at the same time.
We all know that this stuff never would’ve happened with the Sisters in charge.
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