Thursday, July 14, 2005

Why men should head the Church
Sacha Bonsor

Former deacon Caroline Sandon puts the case against female bishops

AFTER the Synod’s vote on Monday to remove the legal blocks to women becoming bishops, a quiet celebration is taking place among the Church’s female ranks. But, as a former deacon of St Andrew’s Church in Cambridge, I feel that the ordination of female bishops will destroy values that the institution to which I belong has spent 2,000 years establishing. The point about the Church is that it is like the family: it has a hierarchy — and women should not be at the head.

Essay: http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,7-1691343,00.html



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