Daily Express
July 16, 2010
http://www.express.co.uk/posts/view/187246/Vatican-condemns-ordination-of-women
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| New Vatican guidelines rank the ordination of women alongside the abuse of children by a priest |
THE Vatican issued a new set of guidelines yesterday which rank the ordination of women alongside the abuse of children by a priest.
The “attempted ordination of a woman” to the priesthood was seen as a “grave crime” to be treated under the same set of rules as those for paedophile clergymen.
The revisions, the first in nine years, say the attempted ordination of a woman would result in excommunication for the woman and priest who tries to ordain her.
Yesterday Vatican sex crimes prosecutor Monsignor Charles Scicluna said the guidelines were a way of categorising two of the most serious canonical crimes.
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The revisions also increase the statute of limitations for sexual abuse cases to 20 years after the victim’s 18th birthday from 10 years.
The Catholic Church is against women priests because the Apostles were all men.
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