When we recently witnessed 133 cardinals processing into the conclave to elect a new pope, I heard no commentary about how strange it is that those persons in colorful elaborate and expensive red dresses were all men because for centuries the hierarchy has excluded women from all positions of power, no women priests, bishops, cardinals are allowed, and so mother church, as they like to call it, is not a mother, it’s a patriarchal, hierarchal institution that discriminates against women.
Until they treat women as equals, they are not faithful to the true spirit and message of Jesus Christ. How tragic and sad that those who should be leading by example continue to treat women as second-class Christians. They, who have failed to protect children from pedophiles in their ranks, have the arrogance to claim authority to deny people the right to choose who they love and marry…