text: Nobody ever says, "The Church needs to ordain priestesses," it's always "women priests." What's wrong with calling the role "priestess" if it's occupied by a woman? Is that too pagan-sounding? And why aren't "progressive" feminists, both male and female, sounding the rally cry for women ushers? Male nuns? Demanding the equal right to join the Knights of Columbus instead of being relegated to the all-female St. Anne's Altar Society? Just what, exactly, suggests that the role of priest is a position of power? Of "lording it over the laity"? I'm not a nun bc of the nuns of my childhood, who were like Sr. Fiedler, but left to become Wiccan priestesses. They tried to lord it over our priests. I discerned a calling, but the Order didn't exist. They were taken over by power-hungry, bitter women. I couldn't imagine confessing to a woman. Women have to "vent." Frustrated women, especially. You'd never convince me that you're Jesus in the Confessional. Just as well "confess" to my girlfriends.