guided Biondo’s spiritual direction were reciprocity, universality, awe before God, and mutual friendship. The result was the adoption in Christ. Adoption – and therefore the Church – remained, however, an eschatological and historical concept: it was fulfilled at the end of time, yet it was...
This might be the case if the exclusion of women from the clergy, also with the help of penal norms, lends structural support to preserving church hierarchy as a clericalist system. The MHG Study and other studies on church abuse have suggested "clericalism" is one factor which has ...