General Discussion

I'm a Boomer, I grew up in the 60s having gone to Catholic schools for most of my young life. My cohorts and I spent countless hours discussing these very topics, and of course we were all liberals politically and religiously. My thought has always been that US Catholics would have been a completely different - and better - church if they had allowed women into the priesthood by around 1970.

They didn't as we all know, and instead we had the priest-pedophiles which has led to all sorts of other problems. I don't have to tell you that so many former Catholics have now left the Church, and if it weren't for the Latino Catholic immigrants a lot of the older inner-city parishes would have already closed. As it is they are combining parishes because there aren't enough Catholics to sustain them financially.

All they had to do was start ordaining women into the priesthood. It would have solved 98% of their problems.