“Seventy percent of U.S. Catholics believe that women should be allowed to be priests, according to a New York Times/CBS News poll earlier this year.
I don’t think that 70 percent of Catholics believe women should be priests. I’m glad that the Catholic Church does not rule by poll. Everything is politics to the media.
Those 70 percent who are unhappy can always go somewhere else and let me practice my religion as I believe it should be practiced. I’m not forcing them to do anything but somehow they believe they should force me. This is pure bs.
My parish had 2 priests involved in this sexual misconduct mess. It tore our church up and set up factions fighting one another. One side not believing the accusations and the other disgusted by the whole thing. Would we have such a mess with women in place? I don’t know. Both priests ended up in other parishes after Cardinal Bevilaqua had them spend a few months reflecting on what they did. I read the file on line put out by the Philly DA. I am not so sure we are not headed for a compromise due to lack of vocations and suitable male applicants.