In recent days, the Tribune deserves praise for running story after story concerning the sex-abuse scandals plaguing the Catholic Church for decades. It seems to me that the best way the church can attempt to redeem itself is to right a 2,000-year-old wrong: by ordaining women as priests.
If “The Da Vinci Code” has taught anything, it is that the “sacred feminine” embodies the power to nurture and heal. These two attributes are greatly in need for an institution that has been in a steady decline for years.
Instead of falling woefully behind the times as it often has, the church needs to light the way into a more positive future by giving women the long-awaited right to lead the church and its followers with dignity and humility. Otherwise the Catholic Church could be in for a reformation the likes of which it couldn’t possibly survive.
