Pope stresses "fundamental" value of women in Church

[MADem]

21. But what about his wife, who was described as a prostitute by the fiction writers a few hundred

years after the fact, so some say?

Was she not a disciple, too?

No question is stupid.


From a distance, I find all this commentary and outreach by Francis interesting and suggestive of great change--but who knows, really? The guy could just be throwing a few fish to the sea lions, to make the whole show more interesting...or he could be on the cusp of "fundamental" changes.

This remark about women is the latest little hint, and before that he was washing women's feet (and a muslim woman's feet, to boot?)...maybe there's something big on the horizon.


Maybe he'll change that "woman priests" rule, and admit that the word "celibate" was a misspelling of "celebrate" or something like that...?

He might have actually noticed that the Catholic faith is hemorrhaging parishoners, and thus, a new approach is in order. It's plainly not sustainable in its current iteration--I can't tell you how many "former Catholic" friends and acquaintances I have, who used to be the kids who always took the fish in the cafeteria on Fridays a half a century or so ago.

Time will tell!