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Credit: Reuters/Alessandro Bianchi By Philip Pullella VATICAN CITY | Fri Jul 16, 2010 9:57am EDT VATICAN CITY (Reuters) - The Vatican on Friday denied accusations that it viewed the ordination of women as priests and the sexual abuse of minors by clerics as equally criminal. On Thursday, the Vatican issued a document making sweeping revisions to its laws on sexual abuse, extending the period in which charges can be filed against priests in church courts and broadening the use of fast-track procedures to defrock them. But while it dealt mostly with pedophilia, it also codified the "attempted ordination of a woman" to the priesthood as one of the most serious crimes against Church law. The inclusion of both issues in the same document caused a stir among some groups around the world, particularly those favoring a female priesthood. "The Vatican's decision to list women's ordination in the same category as pedophiles and rapists is appalling ...," Erin Saiz Hanna, executive director of the Women's Ordination Conference said. She called the decision "mediaeval at best". But Monsignor Charles Scicluna, an official in the Vatican's doctrinal department, said there was no attempt to make women's ordination and pedophilia comparable crimes under canon (Church) law. "This is not putting everything into one basket," Scicluna, the Vatican's internal prosecutor for handling sexual abuse cases, told Reuters in a telephone interview. "They are in the same document but this does not put them on the same level or assign them the same gravity," said Scicluna, who helped formulate the revisions. The document was an attempt to update norms concerning "three sets of canonical crimes that are distinct," and whose jurisdiction is reserved to the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, the Vatican's doctrinal department, he said. CRIME AGAINST MORALITY While sexual abuse was a "crime against morality," the attempt to ordain a woman was a "crime against a sacrament," he said, referring to Holy Orders (the priesthood). The revisions also updated crimes against the faith such as heresy. "This should not be interpreted as considering all these crimes to be equal," he said. "They are crimes of a different nature". The Catholic Church teaches that it cannot ordain women as priests because Christ chose only men as his apostles. Proponents of a female priesthood reject this, saying he was only acting according to the norms of his times. Some dissenters saw the placing of the two in one document as an attempt by the Vatican to respond to criticism by those who say the cause of at least some sexual abuse can be found in the Church's insistence on a male, celibate priesthood. "Sexuality is so denied in our Church," said Christian Weisner, a spokesman for the "We Are Church" liberal Catholic reform movement. "The Roman Catholic Church has to revise its sexual teachings because I think that this is the root of pedophile crime," Weisner told Reuters. Jon O'Brien, president of the U.S.-based group Catholics for Choice, said the Vatican "feels threatened" by a growing movement in the Church that is in favor of a female priesthood. O'Brien, whose group favors a female priesthood, said that while he understood the technical distinction of different types of Church crimes, putting the two together was another example of what he called bungled communications. "If there is an opportunity for authorities in the Vatican to shoot themselves in the foot, they do so in both feet," O'Brien told Reuters. (Editing by Philippa Fletcher) World Comments See All Comments (5) | Post Comment Jul 16, 2010 11:00am EDT The only pure godly people in the Catholic church are the sisters. They are completely untouched by the pedophelia scandal and as payment for their good hard work they will remain subjugated by their male leaders. Isn’t that evidence enough to prove that god is non-existant? madest Report As Abusive Jul 16, 2010 11:09am EDT The first crime is abusing boys who will become men. The second is abusing girls who will become women. Both crimes demean the person by failing to recognize his or her intrinsic worth. TheFolksinger Report As Abusive Jul 16, 2010 11:21am EDT This is the Catholic church choosing to stay firmly rooted in the middle ages when the idea of priest celibacy became required for purposes of denying the families of priests inheritance of Church holdings. This sexual restriction has created a shadow side to the priesthood where homosexuality is practiced and pedophilia has a foot hold. Lifting the celibacy standard and ordaining women would open the closet of the priesthood to the fresh air of honesty and transparency where deviant behavior such as pedophilia could not hide. Allowing priests to express their sexuality freely, whether homosexual or heterosexual would restore a balance and perspective to the priesthood that reflects modern life. Women have a natural propensity for nurturing, healing and teaching that make them even better suited for ministry than many men. But I have long known that priests will sooner marry than women be ordained! This ruling reflects that sad prophecy. ktudor Report As Abusive Jul 16, 2010 11:27am EDT If we really lived in a civil society the executives of Pedophiles Inc would be experiencing “off with their heads 2.0″. Diabiblical Report As Abusive Jul 16, 2010 11:30am EDT I’m a Roman Catholic Convert , Easter Vigil 2000. Jesus Christ founded the Catholic Church over 2000 years ago & the gates of hell shall NOT prevail against The Catholic Church ! Jesus Christ is the same yesterday , today & forever , Also so is His Church, The Sacraments remain ROCK SOLID ! The Teachings of Jesus Christ & the Roman Catholic Holy Bible remain unchanged over the centuries ! Men have attempted to change The Doctrines of the Church but to no avail , instead they have attemptd to divide the Church by breaking away and establishing man-made institutions. Long Live Jesus Christ & His Traditions & Doctrines & Sacraments & His Roman Catholic Church . Amen ! 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