text: It is now long past the time for ordaining women!  
  
  Ordaining women and married men is the only way out from the ditch into which the hierarchy has driven the church.
  
  I am personally convinced that the Roman church is hopelessly incapable of ever reforming and renewing its priesthood - the corruption and complicity is just too deep, too drunk on power.  Catholics must allow the clerical celibate priesthood and hierarchy to die a dignified death, followed by a good Catholic funeral to free all Catholics from centuries of misogyny and clericalism. 
  
  Catholics actually need a new autochthonous rite of the Catholic Church in the 21st century which is based on a new understanding of human culture and sexuality.  Let the Romans have the Vatican where the clerics can scurry around the colonnades and frescoes in their medieval finery enacting liturgies no one really believes in anymore ... the rest of us can survive on our own.  
  
  Let the People Decide!