By Jacki Lyden
WBUR
July 28, 2011
http://onpoint.wbur.org/2011/07/27/female-priests
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| Members of the Women's Ordination Conference celebrate a mass at the Anglican Church Rome. Groups that have long demanded that women be ordained Roman Catholic priests took advantage of the Vatican's crisis over clerical sex abuse to press their cause. |
The issue of female ordination has beset the Roman Catholic church for decades. But increasingly, the Vatican is facing a revolt on the issue, even as it cracks down.
On three continents: Europe, Australia and America, outspoken Catholic priests are defying this strict Vatican tenet. In the U.S., a longstanding American is this one more test for Holy See.
Or, is the church facing a revolt that my force dissenters to the fore?
This hour On Point: Rome, and the challenge to expand the priesthood.
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