New Cardinals
I see the Pope has appointed 19 new cardinals.
In any normal community organisation, something like 10 of these would be women.
Surely it is time the Vatican moved into the twentieth century!
There are two things I find puzzling:
1. How can the European Union let a large, influential body inside its borders thumb its nose at practising the most basic level of equality?
2. How can ordinary members of the church allow its leaders to set such abysmally low ethical standards? Ethics should be a high priority, shouldn't it?
The church's failure in this area reflects poorly on all of us in our efforts to make the world a better place.
130 years ago New Zealand gave women the vote. If the catholic world really want to work with the rest of us, it needs to pull up its socks and lift its game!
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ReplyDeleteYes, they don't ban women altogether, which is infinitely better; not perfect, of course, but two wrongs don't make a right!
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