Sixteen years after Venerable John Paul II declared that “the Church
has no authority whatsoever to confer priestly ordination on women and
that this judgment is to be definitively held by all the Church’s
faithful,” a priest of the Archdiocese of Milwaukee has written a
newspaper column stating that the ordination of women would make “better
sense” because women are more fitting images of the Church as the Bride
of Christ.
After inaccurately stating that “celibacy for clergy began in
monasticism” and was instituted for diocesan clergy only in the Middle
Ages, Father Victor Capriolo added:
To study the Church is to realize that the one constant in her history has been change — from a married clergy to a celibate clergy, from Inquisition to ecumenism, from the way confession (Reconciliation) has been administered and the Mass celebrated, to the way the Church’s disciplines on fasting and abstinence and its moral stance on things such as usury and slavery have changed through time. Will there ever be women priests in the Catholic Church? I wonder.
In 1992, Archbishop Rembert Weakland named Father Capriolo the spiritual
director of the archdiocese’s college seminarians; he is now a pastor
in Fond du Lac, Wisconsin.
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