IRELAND
Irish Independent
Sarah MacDonald
Published 29/09/2014
An international meeting of Catholic women priests, women bishops and their support groups which met in Co Louth at the weekend has said the Vatican must overturn its ban on women’s ordination.
The international delegates from Ireland, the US, UK and Australia also expressed anger over the Vatican’s categorisation of female ordination as a crime on a par with clerical paedophilia.
Erin Saiz Hanna of Women’s Ordination Conference in the US told the Irish Independent, “It is very clear they are saying that women are defiling the Eucharist in the same way as men have defiled the Eucharist by abusing children.”
Miriam Duignan, of womenpriests.org, warned that many Catholics “are so afraid of speaking out” on women’s ordination, because the Vatican is liable to excommunicate them or lobby for their removal from their jobs if they work for a church agency.
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