POZNAN, Poland — Women should play a greater role in the training of priests to fight the child abuse “crisis” that has engulfed the Catholic Church, Canadian Cardinal Marc Ouellet has said. ADVERTISEMENT“We would need participation of more women in (training) of priests,” he told reporters on Saturday on the sidelines of a meeting in the Polish city of Poznan. Better care must be taken when choosing bishops, he said, adding that more women should select candidates for priesthood and assess their suitability for the job. The US Catholic Church has been shaken by the publication of a report on sexual abuse by clergy in Pennsylvania and by the resignation in July of US Cardinal Theodore McCarrick. That meeting took place a day after Germany’s Catholic Church said it was “dismayed and ashamed” by the revelation of decades of child sex abuse by priests, with a leaked report showing that thousands of minors were assaulted.

Source: Philippine Daily Inquirer September 16, 2018 05:03 UTC