Letter: Let women run the Catholic Church
(Giuseppe Lami | The Associated Press) Pope Francis celebrates Mass at the Vatican, Sunday, Feb. 24, 2019. Pope Francis celebrated a final Mass to conclude his extraordinary summit of Catholic leaders summoned to Rome for a tutorial on preventing clergy sexual abuse and protecting children from predator priests. The Mass was celebrated Sunday in the Sala Regia, one of the grand, frescoed reception rooms of the Apostolic Palace.
I have a solution to the Catholic Church’s sex abuse problem: Let women be the pope and the priests, and men be the nuns.
In my 33 years as a criminal defense attorney, l represented many sex offenders and none of them were female.
I know that a few women commit sex offenses, almost invariably with teenage boys, but their numbers are minuscule compared to men abusing females and males of all ages. I’m sure God the Mother would be OK with my proposed solution.
Manny Garcia, Salt Lake City
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