Catholic paper calls for ordination of women-CathNews NZ/Pacific

Catholic paper calls for ordination of women

Friday, December 7th, 2012

The National Catholic Reporter, a widely-circulated United States newspaper, has called for the ordination of women to the Catholic priesthood.

“Barring women from ordination to the priesthood is an injustice that cannot be allowed to stand,” the paper said in a December 3 editorial.

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