The unique gifts women can bring

From NCR: The unique gifts women can bring to the role of pastor by Bill Tammeus:

My congregation has just done something currently impossible for a Catholic congregation to replicate: It has voted to call a woman as our associate pastor. She'll be the fourth woman to serve in that capacity in our congregation's 150-year history.

My job here is not to tell the Catholic church it should ordain women as priests, though that would be my position if I were Catholic. Rather, I'm going to try to give Catholics a sense of what having female clergy can do to create a full and wholesome approach to ministry.  continue reading