"At a time when the male leadership [of the Catholic Church] can be blamed for leading the church to a state of crisis -- at time when the voices of women are needed more than ever -- even the modest roles accorded to female clerics have come under attack," Newsweek's Lisa Miller writes in an opinion piece. The "irony ... is thick" in the recen excommunication of Sister Margaret McBride, an administrator at a Phoenix hospital who participated in a decision to allow a first-trimester abortion to save a patient's life, Miller states...
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