To the Editor:
What a pity that Benedicta Cipolla (“My Father, the Priest,” Sunday Review, Sept. 20) didn’t suggest that women be ordained to fill the Catholic Church’s desperate need for more priests. But we women know that the church would prefer any man, even an ordained priest of another religion, to a woman.
One of the world’s truest aphorisms is “to exclude is to revile,” and while we may welcome Pope Francis to New York, there are many of us who feel a sinking in our souls to know that he will never consider us equals or worthy of joining the sacred brotherhood of clerics.
Male gods and male clerics: How weary we are!
FENGAR GAEL
New York
Note from KBJ: I'm not Roman Catholic, but I attend mass with Katherine every Sunday. I have no strong opposition to female priests, provided they're trained as well as male priests. What say you?
