Gender & priesthood: the Orthodox keep talking.(Column)

Commonweal | January 26, 1996| | Copyright

After the recent Roman declaration that Catholics must regard it as infallible, a matter of the "deposit of faith," that only men can be priests, a Catholic friend asked if my Orthodox parish had gained any new members. I told him that although we may never see women priests in Orthodoxy, we would at least not call it an infallible truth.

This was meant lightly on both sides, but the Roman declaration will have very serious consequences, none of them intended by Rome. It will lead some people to leave the Catholic church; it will discourage many who stay; it will hearten ...

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