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They have the right idea. Why would the patriarchs opposing bhikkhuni ordination change their minds? What advantage would there be for them, since they already have everything?
If women stopped feeding monks, how many days would it take for them to find that there is, after all, a path to bhikkhuni ordination? Hunger is a sterling motivator.
Excellent! I wholeheartedly wish them success.
The Vatican seems almost like a hopeless case. Its truly the definition of patriarchy.
Matters came to a head as the synod in Rome ended last month. Cardinal Victor Manuel Fernández, charged with heading a group on women’s ministry, failed to attend an important meeting on the subject. Then the final synod document appeared to sideline the project, saying: “The question of women’s access to diaconal ministry remains open. This discernment needs to continue.”
There’s a lot of spin on that ball.
Ha ha, yes. I wish more Buddhists would look at how the Catholic church spins patriarchy and realize that their monks are just doing the same thing. After all, the Thai Sangha hierarchy was explicitly modeled after the Vatican, which the Thai royals believed was the modern, Western thing to do.