In a fine article at the Wall Street Journal about the emphasis Archbishop Dolan is placing on increasing vocations, Christopher Willcox writes:
Advocates for married priests and the ordination of women have not gone away, and they have made it an article of their particular faith that celibacy and an all-male priesthood are at the root of all church problems . . . [emphasis added]
That’s a nice way of putting it.
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