Yesterday, the Vatican released a document that included provisions for changing its laws regarding sex crimes. The document also contained language condemning the attempted ordination of women as a crime. Naturally, feminists are outraged, and have suggested that the Catholic Church equates the two. However, this perception may be mainly their end: a number of feminists have been drawing connections between the lack of priestesses and sexual abuse in the church for quite some time. Sinead O’Connor, for example, has come out strongly against the current and former pope and has had herself ordained as a priestess in a heretical sect. Maureen Dowd has suggested that a female pope (a contradiction in terms — pope means “father”), would solve the church’s problems.
Feminist pressure groups that favor a female-dominated church have claimed that the church’s denial of sexuality has led to sex crimes. Christian Weisner, of “We Are Church,” said:
The Roman Catholic Church has to revise its sexual teachings because I think that this is the root of pedophile crime
While mandated priestly celibacy may have something to do with illicit sex, it is likely that the changing external society had more to do with aberrant behavior than the centuries-old practices of the Roman Catholic Church.
For a fascinating example of how church teachings were subverted in the 20th century, watch the following video:
Ancient and modern religions characterized by priestesses have traditionally devolved into prostitution cults. Today, a persistent problem in India involves the use of sacred prostitutes, known as “yogini” or “devadesi,” to augment temple income. In the ancient Nordic religion, witches would “ordain” girls, after which a number of men would have sex with them. The girls would then be sacrificed to accompany dead chiefs to Hel (nordic Hell), Valhalla, or wherever they were to go. There are countless examples of priestesses engaging in such behavior.
