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From the NYTimes: The Vatican issued revisions to its internal laws on Thursday making it easier to discipline sex-abuser priests, but caused confusion by also stating that ordaining women as priests was as grave an offense as pedophilia.

The Times goes on to say that many Catholics are astonished by the "the inclusion of the attempt to ordain women in a list of the “more grave delicts,” or offenses, which included pedophilia, as well as heresy, apostasy and schism. The issue, some critics said, was less the ordination of women, which is not discussed seriously inside the church hierarchy, but the Vatican’s suggestion that pedophilia is a comparable crime in a document billed a response to the sexual abuse crisis."

I'm not religious whatsoever but I do find it absolutely disgusting that the Vatican believes that women who want to be priests and those who support them are just as bad as pedophiles.

The Times cites the case of Rev. Roy Bourgeois, who was excommunicated two months after he took part in a ceremony ordaining a woman. It took years after bishops' requests, in many cases, to defrock pedophiles. Of course, the papal state also has an age of consent of twelve (15 if there is a teacher/student relationship) so....

Priorities, get you some.