Vatican Clarifies: Women Priests Not As Terrible As Sexual Abuse Of Children

“While sexual abuse was a ‘crime against morality,’ the attempt to ordain a woman was a ‘crime against a sacrament,’” says Monsignor Charles Scicluna, an official in the Vatican’s doctrinal department, discussing recent revisions to Church laws. Although language against the ordination of women was included in a document that mostly deals with pedophilia, that was mostly a coincidence, says Scicluna, and “should not be interpreted as considering all these crimes to be equal. They are crimes of a different nature”.