Madam, – Seamus O’Callaghan (July 31st) accuses Canon Ginnie Kennerley and Dr Bridget Mary Meehan of “missing the point” in their arguments for women’s ordination.
May I suggest that it is Seamus O’Callaghan who is missing the point when he dismisses Canon Kennerley’s and Dr Meehan’s arguments on the basis that these are “pseudo-struggles for equality” which have “more to do with securing positions of pomp, pride, prestige and power than any furtherance of God’s kingdom”.
Surely it is the hierarchical church’s exclusion of half of its members from the organisational life of the church which has more to do with maintaining, for the other half, “positions of pomp, pride, prestige and power” – none of which is in keeping with the egalitarian message and example of Jesus Christ nor with the fundamental Christian doctrine that all humans beings are created equally in God’s image. – Yours, etc,