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Patricia Miller, RD BlogApril 1, 2014

Again, Vatican Punishes Gender Equality More Swiftly Than Sexual Abuse

By Patricia Miller

A Franciscan peace activist is removed from public life as a priest for celebrating mass with a woman.

Excommunicated For ‘Grave Scandal’ of Ordaining Women

By Roy Bourgeois

Just after the new pope effectively shut the door to the ordination of women, a priest connects his segregated Louisiana upbringing and campaign to end the U.S. Army School of the Americas to last year’s excommunication for his refusal to quit ordaining women.

What Color is Vatican Smoke?

By Marian Ronan

While I do not doubt that there are certain similarities between apartheid (as well as US segregation) and the exclusion of women from Roman Catholic ordination, and while I can believe that Fresen’s feelings about these two injustices are similar, it is not ethically acceptable to say that they are “just the same.”