Supporters of Woman Priest
at the Vatican

Yesterday there was a news report of how widespread sexual abuse, rape of women, is in the military. This is not the first time such a sex scandal in the military has been in the press. It just seems to be something a male dominated military lends itself to.

The sex scandal that broke out in the Catholic Church of the USA, mostly pedophile of boys and young men by priest, has been shown to be international as scandals in Ireland, Germany and now Holland have shown. The Catholic Church, like the military, is also male dominated.

Our former Archbishop in Milwaukee, now Cardinal in NYC, once said that the sexual abuse by priest was similar to other parts of the society in general. Yes the illness of pedophile has shown itself in other churches and in other groups in society but not nearly as significant and widespread as the Catholic Church.

In my opinion what the Catholic Church and military have in common is male domination. The male hierarchy of the Catholic Church forbids us to talk about women being priest. The military keeps saying it will change its treatment of woman but the abuse continues under the watch of the male dominated military.

If you look around our society the final two outpost of male domination is the Catholic Church and the Military, the two groups where sexual abuse scandals are rampant.

I need to admit that I did not understand the Catholic woman priest issue until I met one. She has been excommunicated as well as the Catholic priest who was on the altar during her ordination. What I learned from my friend is that woman’s ordination is a real challenge to the male dominated hierarchical Catholic Church to the equality of all women and men followers of the way of Jesus Christ. I think the sexual abuse scandals in the Catholic Church and the military are the final signs of the fall of the male dominated hierarchy.

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