Reuters Reports on the “Ordination” of a Woman Priest  On
Saturday Reuters put out an article on a woman in Kentucky who
took part in a ceremony purporting to make her into a Catholic
priest.  I’d like to make two points about the article.  In the
first place, it is utterly and predictably biased.  This is
evident from the tone of the piece, which presents the woman in
question–and the movement for female ordination–in a positive
light while giving the Roman Catholic Church’s side of the story
in language that is at best clinical.  It does not read like an
article written by an unbiased professional journalist but by a
biased one trying to do the minimum to appear unbiased.  Apart
from the tone, this bias is obvious in a couple of aspects of
the article.  In the first place, in its title and throughout it
refers to the woman as having been “ordained” as a priest.  It
acknowledges the Church’s view that such an ordination is
impossible and that the ceremony in which the woman took part
was really a “simulation