It's "stupefying to me that women cannot preach at Mass," LGBT activist and Jesuit priest Father James Martin tweeted today, despite biblical admonitions, canon law, and Church teaching against the practice.
Martin linked to an America magazine piece written by a Santa Clara University lecturer who lamented that the "clock" was "turned back" at her parish in 2009 and 2013 when new bishops prohibited women from delivering homilies and then post-homily "reflections," respectively.
"In our parish in Northern California, lay women began to preach the good news during the Sunday liturgy in 1996. The practice emerged from within the faith community," Jean Molesky-Poz, who has also authored a book on Mayan spirituality, wrote. "Several women had approached our pastor and spoke of the devastating lack of women's spiritual wisdom and leadership in the church for 2,000 years.”
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