{"id":209,"date":"2010-07-19T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2010-07-19T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/beliefbeat\/2010\/07\/catholic-feminists-abuse-victims-upset-about-female-ordination-included-in-vatican-graver-crimes-rev.html"},"modified":"2010-07-19T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2010-07-19T12:00:00","slug":"catholic-feminists-abuse-victims-upset-about-female-ordination-included-in-vatican-graver-crimes-rev","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/beliefbeat\/2010\/07\/catholic-feminists-abuse-victims-upset-about-female-ordination-included-in-vatican-graver-crimes-rev.html","title":{"rendered":"Catholic Feminists Upset By Female Ordination Included in Vatican&#8217;s Clergy Abuse Rules"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In the days since the Vatican released its long-awaited revised&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/visnews-en.blogspot.com\/2010\/07\/modifications-made-in-normae-de.html\">canon law standards addressing how clergy abuse cases should be handled<\/a>, the uproar has shifted <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/beliefbeat\/2010\/07\/vaticans-new-sex-abuse-rules-step-forward-but-not-far-enough.html\">from disappointed victims groups (who feel the revisions&nbsp;don&#8217;t go far enough)<\/a>&nbsp;to outraged feminists and others offended that the ordination of a woman is included&nbsp;among the church&#8217;s most serious crimes &#8212;&nbsp;along with raping children. (It&#8217;s not quite so simple,&nbsp;but&nbsp;can we at&nbsp;least&nbsp;agree that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.firstthings.com\/blogs\/theanchoress\/2010\/07\/16\/the-vaticans-epic-fail\/\">this a ridiculously poor PR move<\/a>?)<\/p>\n<p>Some of the negative reactions, including quite a few from National Catholic Reporter:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/religionandpubliclife\/2010\/07\/new-vatican-norms-all-about-women.html\">New Vatican norms all about women <\/a>(Mark Silk, for Beliefnet)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/ncronline.org\/blogs\/ncr-today\/international-catholic-ogranizations-speak-out-against-new-vatican-womens-ordination\">International Catholic organizations speak out against new Vatican women&#8217;s ordination edict <\/a>(National Catholic Reporter)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/ncronline.org\/blogs\/ncr-today\/church-women-we-love-you\">Church to women: We love you, but&#8230; <\/a>(Tom Roberts, for National Catholic Reporter)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/ncronline.org\/blogs\/ncr-today\/%E2%80%9Cegg-face%E2%80%9D-won%E2%80%99t-wash\">The &#8220;Egg on the Face&#8221; Won&#8217;t Wash Off <\/a>(Maureen Fieldler, for National Catholic Reporter)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2010\/07\/18\/opinion\/18dowd.html?partner=rssnyt&amp;emc=rss\">Rome Fiddles, We Burn <\/a>(Maureen Dowd, for The New York Times)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2010\/07\/17\/opinion\/17sat4.html?_r=1&amp;partner=rssnyt&amp;emc=rss\">Tone-Deaf in Rome <\/a>(New York Times editorial) <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>And in the Vatican&#8217;s defense:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.getreligion.org\/?p=38733\">Arguments that shed light <\/a>(GetReligion)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.catholicnewsagency.com\/news\/us-bishops-welcome-vatican-statement-on-gravity-of-attempted-womens-ordination\/?utm_source=feedburner&amp;utm_medium=feed&amp;utm_campaign=Feed:+catholicnewsagency\/dailynews+(CNA+Daily+News)\">US bishops welcome Vatican statement on gravity of attempted women&#8217;s ordination <\/a>(Catholic News Agency)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/newsblogs.chicagotribune.com\/religion_theseeker\/2010\/07\/the-rev-robert-barron-vatican-statement-not-antiwoman.html\">The Rev. Robert Barron: Vatican statement not anti-woman<\/a> (The Seeker, for The Chicago Tribune)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>What do you think? Share your thoughts in the Comments section below.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"Apple-style-span\"><span class=\"Apple-style-span\">*<a href=\"http:\/\/feedburner.google.com\/fb\/a\/mailverify?uri=beliefnet\/beliefbeat\">Click here to<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp;<\/span><strong>subscribe to Belief Beat<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp;<\/span><\/strong><\/a>and<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp;<\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.twitter.com\/beliefbeat\">click here to<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp;<\/span><strong>follow Belief Beat on Twitter<\/strong><\/a>.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the days since the Vatican released its long-awaited revised&nbsp;canon law standards addressing how clergy abuse cases should be handled, the uproar has shifted from disappointed victims groups (who feel the revisions&nbsp;don&#8217;t go far enough)&nbsp;to outraged feminists and others offended that the ordination of a woman is included&nbsp;among the church&#8217;s most serious crimes &#8212;&nbsp;along with&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-209","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.9 - 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