The international Catholic news weekly The Tablet thought the appointment of the first woman Archbishop of Canterbury in the Anglican Church presented a ripe opportunity for the Catholic Church to re-examine the issue of women’s ordination to the priesthood.
In a short article consisting chiefly of an interview with Irish Jesuit theologian Father Gerry O’Hanlon, he does not hide his frustration with the current state of the question within Catholicism and states bluntly his wish that the Church “stopped beating about the bush and undertook a fair and open re-examination of current teaching.”
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