Umberto Eco and others on women's ordination

A post at Pray Tell notes that Cardinal Reinhard Marx, Archbishop of Munich and Freising, has recently seemed to say that the question of women's ordination should be an open one. One wonders how long it will be before the obligatory retraction appears.

Some related links ...

- The exclusion of women from the priesthood according to Thomas Aquinas - Umberto Eco

- Women Bishops: A Response to Cardinal Kasper - NT Wright

- Rowan Williams at the Gregorian University

- Did Jesus Exclude Women from Priesthood? - Sandra Schneiders

- Why Not? Scripture, History & Women's Ordination and Continuing the Conversation: Women & the Priesthood - Robert J. Egan SJ

- What Karl Rahner said

- And William Barry SJ

- Spirituality/Justice Reprint Responses to the CDF document by Joan Chittister, Augustine De Noia, Avery Dulles, Hans Kung, Nicholas Lash, Leadership Conference of Women Religious, Robert McClory, Rosemary Ruether, Francis A. Sullivan. January/February 1996