¿Prohibir que las mujeres sean sacerdotes... es cristiano?

Robert Kegan, en la excelente revista Commonweal, pone el dedo en la llaga:

The church cannot remain exempt from the principles of its own social teaching. Catholics cannot bear witness to principles of justice, equality, subsidiarity, and participation, and claim exceptions for themselves. The question is this: Has the tradition of excluding women from the diaconate, presbyterate, and episcopacy really been faithful to the teaching and practice of Jesus? Or has it been part of a mostly unexamined and partially unconscious bias for subjecting women to men’s authority and power? Which is the more believable interpretation of our history as a people?

This is a very important question, one that urgently needs and deserves an open, prayerful, learned, patient, and discerning conversation among Catholics today.

And yet it does not happen. And so the crisis deepens.

"Dios creó el hombre a imagen suya...hombre y mujer los creó", dice el Génesis. Entonces si el hombre y la mujer son iguales en la imagen del mismo Dios, ¿por qué la mujer no puede consagrar? Solo para recordar: Jesús nunca prohibió que hubieras mujeres sacerdotes, y ya se ha comprobado con evidencias históricas que existieron mujeres diaconisas, y parece una obispa, Teodora. Para más información pueden leer el libro Cuando las mujeres eran sacerdotes de Karen Jo Torjesen, en Ediciones El Almendron (España, 2005).