This is very disturbing: Most (almost 3 out of 4) Catholic women in Ireland do not feel that their church \u201cregards women with a lot of respect,\u201d but most Protestant Irish women by far, almost all in fact, feel that their church does.<\/p>\n
But this sounds a bit more hopeful: 73 per cent of Catholic women say the \u201cCatholic clergy are now more understanding of what women need from their church.\u201d They don’t say what \u201cnow\u201d means or which needs are in view \u2013 and compared to what or when? But at least it’s better than something or the other.<\/p>\n
No, this isn\u2019t a post agitating for the ordination of women in the Catholic Church. It\u2019s not gonna happen in my lifetime, I predict. (I\u2019m\u00a0not extending any predictions beyond my death, at which point I hope to acquire new insights on all sorts of issues.)<\/p>\n