In discussing how women might be included in decision-making in the Church, Clifford Longley (28 September) presents two options as mutually exclusive: either ordain women and perpetuate clericalism, or create new power structures to include non-ordained women and men. If women are to share in “the power, authority and status” normally conferred through ordination, then to ordain women would be unnecessary, even counter-productive. He is unconvinced by the argument that “women would make the clerical profession less masculine”. Longley’s concern that women should share in decision-making is commendable. Yet the Church is crying out to God to send more priests, not “to share in authority, power and status” but to serve the People of God through &l