After Vatican officials ordered Chittister's superior, Prioress Christine Vladimiroff, to bar Chittister from speaking, Vladimiroff met with the sisters in Erie and all but one of them voted to oppose the ban.
Chittister delivered her address, and the Vatican backed away from its threat of a "just penalty."
Sitting in the lounge of a home in which her office is located near the Lake Erie waterfront, Chittister said she would like to be known for her advocacy for the world's poor and her pursuit of peacemaking.
But like it or not, as the Roman Catholic Church struggles to find enough clergy to serve its parishioners, the issue of women's ordination, not to mention married priests, won't go away.
Neither will her uncomfortable questions.
"I have simply argued for years that if a woman is not half a person, if she is really a full person ---- if her baptism is really as authentic as anyone else's baptism, and her call to discipleship is as deep as anyone else's, then don't we have to discuss the theological implications of this as a church?
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I am SO tired of this argument! We have seven candidates in seminary right now. My sister's parish has 8. The increase in vocations is God's answer, and the Church is not going to change its position on this.
I know the talking heads and screaming faces are not your favorite, but thought you might be interested. Comments are pretty much in real time, so you can scroll to when Joan is on.
I read the article in the link you provided. Very informative.
The argument that women can not be priests is not a closed issue, but that is the Church's position for now. this nun is able to raise some very valid arguments and it will be increasingly difficult to " avoid" this issue.
I often think that the "cafeteria style" concept also belongs to religious groups who choose one century to forbid blacks in churches and accept slavery, and then a decade later denounce slavery. To prohibit divorce, yet later allow a Kennedy to get an "annullment" from his ex wife who did not want one and "wipe out" a marriage that produced several children.