“He used to fight with me, now he respects me. Now he talks nicely to me and keeps me happy.”
The Indian women say they also see a different future for their daughters. It involves education and employment.
I’m Faith Lapidus.
Worldwide more than 120 women have been ordained as Roman Catholic priests. Vatican officials do not recognize the ordinations. The ordinations, in fact, violate Church rules. But some Roman Catholics are demanding a change in rules.
Katherine Cole takes a look at the debate.
Time can appear to move slowly at the Vatican, the headquarters of the Catholic Church. But Giuseppe Visotto, a Vatican visitor, thinks the time has come for change.
“The Church has to adapt to modern society. The world is changing rapidly and the church has to follow in each and every respect.”
Half a world away, one Catholic congregation recently met at a Protestant church in Baltimore, Maryland. This group has already rejected the Vatican’s ban on female clergy. Its members are part of a movement that started in 2002 in Germany, where Pope Benedict was born.
Worldwide, about 150 women claim to be Catholic clergy members. Gloria Carpeneto is one of them.
“Women represent half the experience in the world.”
She says women have experiences that men do not have. And if only men are in the clergy, women’s voices are not represented.
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