Women and the Church

Madam, - Caitriona McClean (November 12th) now seems to equate merely not being ordained with abuse.

Madam, - Caitriona McClean (November 12th) now seems to equate merely not being ordained with abuse.

Was Jesus Himself, then, also guilty of abuse by choosing as Apostles 12 males only and by "excluding" all others from the Last Supper at which He made them priests and bishops?

Or was He freely resisting future extreme feminism to teach us yet another lesson in the essential non-interchangeability - and thus complementarity - of the sexes? - Yours, etc.,

Fr DAVID O'HANLON, CC  Parochial House, Kentstown, Navan,

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