But Papa Bergoglio would enhance his Media reputation for being a man who thinks 'outside the box' if he appointed a married man or woman to head the Congregation of the Family.... I see no peremptory doctrinal reason why dicasterial heads should not be lay*; nor would it worry me to see a woman in such a role (Mary Ann Glendon, sadly, is beyond the retirement age).
Ironically, part of the problem of having celibates in charge of the Congregation of the Family may actually be to celibates (and those with very little experience with women) being prone to pedestalizing women and buying into rhetoric about equal opportunity and such. (This does not apply to Fr. Hunwicke insofar as he is married but what of his status?)
Daniel Blackman on feminism.
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