CBS: Protesters March in Vatican for Female Priests

CBS coverage of WOC protests at the Vatican in June 2010:

(AP)  Groups that have long demanded that women be ordained Roman Catholic priests took advantage of the Vatican’s crisis over clerical sex abuse to press their cause Tuesday, demanding the Vatican open discussions on letting women join the priesthood. 

Representatives of a half-dozen Catholic reform groups marched on St. Peter’s Square on the eve of a three-day rally marking the end of the church’s yearlong celebration of the priest. 

Vatican officials have said during the rally Pope Benedict XVI may apologize for the decades of rapes and molestation that children suffered at the hands of priests. 

The umbrella group Women’s Ordination Conference said the Vatican shouldn’t be celebrating the priesthood while "turning a blind eye when men in its ranks destroy the lives of children and families."  

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