In Brief: Vatican Rules: Ordaining Women Priests a Crime Like Sex Abuse of Children

July 14, 2010 | Filed under: In Brief | Posted by:

New rules the Vatican is expected to issue soon on penalties for priests who sexually abuse children will also put the ordaining of women in the same category of the most serious crimes under church law.

Church sources told Catholic News Service that the new "norms," as the policies are called, will include the "attempted ordination of women" among the list of most serious crimes, or what are known as "delicta graviora."

Does this mean that anyone attempting to ordain a woman will be quietly transferred to another diocese, where he may seek out other vulnerable women and attempt to ordain them?

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3 Responses to In Brief: Vatican Rules: Ordaining Women Priests a Crime Like Sex Abuse of Children

  1. avatar Perry Bulwer July 15, 2010 - 6:07 am

    "Does this mean that anyone attempting to ordain a woman will be quietly transferred to another diocese…?" No, it doesn't mean that. at all. Both the priest and the woman he ordained are almost immediately excommunicated. That''s what makes this so vile. Molesting and raping children rarely gets a priest excommunicated, but ordaining women always does. See: The Vatican's Perverted Sense of Justice: Pedophiles Stay in the Church, While Priests Who Ordain Women Are Excommunicated at http://www.perrybulwer.com/religion-and-child-abu…

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  2. avatar Brian Magee July 15, 2010 - 10:08 am

    Isn't being excommunicated really a blessing?

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  3. avatar chris September 2, 2010 - 10:20 pm

    wow shows how sexist and intollerant the church is huh.

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