Pope thinks priests are different

As I mentioned in my longish piece on Christianity and politics a couple of days ago, a great strength of the Christian view is that it provides a way to recognize and value genuine human differences. Since “celebrating diversity” can’t mean insisting that everyone be the same, Christian orthodoxy can never buy into the opposition to discrimination enshrined in Article 1 of the Dutch constitution. An example I gave was women and the priesthood. Here is another, the Pope speaking on the fundamental difference between the clergy and the laity.
Posted by Jim Kalb at May 10, 2002 09:50 AM | Send