Is it possible that any pope, cardinal, archbishop, bishop, abbot, or superior general of a religious order, indeed any member of the Church, can read Carmody Grey’s Student Voice column “Living inside the Church as a woman, you just get used to the exclusion” (17 October) and continue to oppose the ordination of women as deacons and as priests? Rarely has the case been put so powerfully and so movingly, and at the same time so rationally and thoughtfully. The article should be copied and sent to every single person in that list. How long can this situation persist in which the “deepest identity” of the Catholic woman is ignored and “there are no female bodies sacramentally representing Christ”? Michael KnowlesCongleton , Cheshir
22 October 2015, The Tablet
Young, female, Catholic - and excluded
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