An Anglican bishop opposed to the ordination of women has resigned to join the Roman Catholic church. Jonathan Goodall, currently the bishop of Ebbsfleet, said he came to his decision “after a long period of prayer” (rather than, say, a long period of pandering to his prejudices).
In the Roman Catholic catechism “God is neither man nor woman: he is God.” Nevertheless, as recently as 1977, Pope Paul VI rationalised the exclusion of women from the priesthood because “our Lord was a man”. The face of God has traditionally been perceived as male, and church fathers believed that male supremacy, here on earth, reflected the hierarchy of heaven.
In fact, of course, it was the other way round. It was the all-male hierarchy of the Catholic church, here on earth, which determined the level of testosterone in the heavenly realm. It was pious and self-serving men who wrote the prospectus of heaven, established the entry criteria and issued the tickets.
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