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...supporting the ordination of women in the Roman Catholic Church, Sister Joan Chittister is a prophet for our times [RELIGION, Aug. 20]. The Vatican's attempts to suppress discussion of women serving as priests and to silence those who favor it are not only a violation of the church's own social-justice teachings; these attempts are also likely to backfire (think Galileo and Martin Luther). In addition, at a time of a growing, worldwide shortage of priests (only 400 were ordained in the U.S. this year), such a ban is shortsighted. I am grateful that Sister Joan...
...India, and much of the Catholic world, has been buzzing about the presentation to the Vatican this week of the case of an Indian woman said to be the recipient of Mother Teresa's first miracle--a significant step toward Teresa's canonization. Monica Besra, a mother of five, tells TIME that on Sept. 5, 1998--a year to the day after Teresa died--she was writhing in pain from an abdominal tumor at a home run by the Missionaries of Charity. "There was no way any doctor would have operated on me at that hour," she says...
...when it comes to who celebrates the sacraments, even though 71% of American Catholics surveyed in a May 2000 Gallup poll favored having female priests. Still, Rome has not budged on the issue. In 1994 Pope John Paul II emphatically restated the ban in a pastoral letter, and the Vatican's Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith declared his decision "infallible" and "not...open to debate." The gag order, even more than the edict, drove church liberals to distraction...
...much so that Chittister, 65, found a way to flout it that the Vatican could not ignore. The tussle began last spring, when Rome learned that the resident of the Mount St. Benedict monastery in Erie, Pa., had agreed to address the first international conference of a group called Women's Ordination Worldwide in Dublin. The conference clearly challenged the debate freeze, and there were even rumors it might "ordain" its own female priests. Accordingly, the Vatican's Congregation for the Institutes of Consecrated Life sent a letter directing Chittister's prioress, Sister Christine Vladimiroff, to issue a "precept...
...eventually, says Haggett, the Church establishment will come around. "I feel the Vatican will eventually say, okay, you?re doing this, so that...