It is settled, Rome has spoken. Here’s the official pronouncement The ordination of women will only happen in Protestant Churches. How they can defend that from the bible is beyond me.
How bout this. What are your thoughts on the Crusades and the Inquisition? Was the Church right or wrong?
These questions concern behavior and not doctrine however, you asked so here are my thoughts. The Crusades were a reaction to centuries of assaults on Christendom by Arab and other Islamic forces. It’s a shame they weren’t more successful. Was the Church right in defending Christendom, absolutely. Granted there were good men, some not so good , and probably many who were neither that participated in them. It used to be a noble thing to fight and die for Christendom. Nowadays its only OK to do that in the name of freedom. What has changed?
The Inquisition happened at a time when the repression of heresy and infidelity was generally accepted as a political necessity both in Protestant and Catholic Europe in the sixteenth and seventeenth century. So I would say it is hard for us in today’s world to understand why they did it and easy for us to criticize it. But let there be no mistake about it, Catholics and Protestants have some ugly scars from this.