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By Thomas Edwards, Catholic Herald, January 4, 2024

The leaders of the German Synodal Way decided to make waves in 2023 by leaving Biblical theology and anthropology at the door and endorsing whatever they thought secular society wanted them to endorse. This included female ordination.

There are some very compelling reasons why we do not need women priests in the Catholic Church, and they have names: Mary, Maria, Teresa, Mother Teresa, Therese, Teresa Benedicta or Edith, Bernadette, Bakita—to name just a few. If we consider parish leadership or the administration of sacraments as the only paths to spiritual success, then indeed, we have a problem. However, all the aforementioned women were able to achieve the highest accolade of sanctity without holy orders. In Catholicism, the ultimately goal is to become saintly, not to become a priest, and our female canonised Saints fare pretty well on that score. ….

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