CNN: Opinion: The Pope puts a crack in the Catholic Church’s ‘stained glass ceiling’
(CNN) Pope Francis put another crack in the Catholic Church’s “stained glass ceiling” last week, announcing reforms that will allow women to head some Vatican offices. The Vatican is now free to hire the best person for these jobs, instead of being limited to an ever-shrinking group of cassocked men.
The news caught some by surprise, because as recently as 2015 Pope Francis rejected the idea out of hand.
Kate McElwee, the executive director of Women’s Ordination Now, a feminist Catholic organization, told me, “The fact that [Francis] evolved on this question in such a short amount of time is huge and gives a lot of hope to me.”
Indeed, the step is laudable. But it’s time for Francis to evolve on another issue: his opposition to ordaining women.