Huffington Post: Vatican: Ordination of Women ‘A Grave Crime’

Erin Saiz Hanna is featured in this article on the Vatican’s July 15, 2010 statement calling the ordination of a woman a "grave crime."

Vatican: Ordination of Women ‘A Grave Crime’
By Nicole Winfield 
July 15, 2010

VATICAN CITY — The Vatican revised its in-house rules to deal with clerical sex abuse cases Thursday, targeting priests who molest the mentally disabled as well as children and doubling the statute of limitations for such crimes.

Abuse victims said the rules are little more than administrative housekeeping since they made few substantive changes to current practice, and what is needed are bold new rules to punish bishops who shield pedophiles.

Women’s ordination groups criticized the new rules because they included the attempted ordination of women as a "grave crime" subject to the same set of procedures and punishments meted out for sex abuse.

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