Moya Frenz St Leger challenges the bishops to engage in serious dialogue with feminist theologians as a step towards healing the angst felt by many loyal women within the patriarchal institution.
Theological insights are notorious for infiltrating across boundaries.
But let us be quite clear about the ramifications of a 'yes' vote. The theological arguments for and against have been well aired over the past decade. Women in theology feel they have effectively presented a soundly based justification for calling into question the Catholic Church's teaching that God does not call women to ordained ministry. Both camps display the fruits of their research in scholarly journals. Catholic lay people argue their corners in the Catholic press.