Patriarchal sexism is a universal wound of humanity rooted in original sin (Genesis 3:16).  As long as the Catholic Church remains patriarchal, we continue to reinforce the patriarchal paradigm of male domination and female subordination, until recently taken for granted as "natural law." A male-only church hierarchy cannot make visible the divine "feminine genius" that abides in Jesus Christ.  

There can be no integral human developement, and no integral ecology, as long as there is no integral complementarity *between* man and woman, an *within* each man and each woman.  For this reason, the ordination of women to the ministerial priesthood is the most critical priority pursuant to  integral human development, an integral ecology, and the new evangelization.