UNITED STATES
National Catholic Reporter
by Maureen Fiedler | Feb. 7, 2013
Catholic News Service reports on an interview on the possibility of women priests with Dominican Fr. Wojciech Giertych, the “theologian” of the papal household. (Yes, the quotes around “theologian” are intentional.)
After repeating some of the same tired old arguments that have long since been dismissed by competent theologians (e.g., Jesus was male, so a priest has to be male to “image” Jesus ), he came up with a whole new angle: Priests love the church in a characteristically “male way” when they show concern “about structures, about the buildings of the church, about the roof of the church which is leaking, about the bishops’ conference, about the concordat between the church and the state.”
Huh? There is so much wrong with this, it’s hard to know where to start. In what century is this man living? The very thought that women don’t deal with buildings or structures or conferences or international concordats is straight out of the 19th century, maybe earlier.
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