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Washington D.C., Mar 31, 2014 \/ 05:05 pm (CNA\/EWTN News<\/a>).- Prominent Catholic laywomen have responded to recent statements by former U.S. president Jimmy Carter, saying he lacks understanding of the Church and of the nature of service.<\/p>\n

\tWhile talking to various media outlets, Carter has criticized the Church saying its teachings about the priesthood are responsible for the mistreatment of women around the world.<\/p>\n

\tCarter\u2019s \u201ccomments about the role of women in the Church show a gross misunderstanding of Catholicism,\u201d commented Ashley McGuire, senior fellow with The Catholic Association, in a March 27 interview with CNA.<\/p>\n

\t\"As Pope Francis continues to remind us, it is service to others that is the primary aim of Catholics, not authority or power.\"<\/p>\n

\tShe added that Carter's statements \"are insulting to nuns, whose work is just as important as that of priests,\" and that the conflation of \"an all-male priesthood with domestic abuse is disrespectful to the Church and to actual victims of domestic violence.\"<\/p>\n

\tCarter appeared on The Colbert Report March 26 saying he would join the Church if \"a female Catholic priest asks me to join her church\u201d; he has made similar statements in other interviews promoting his latest book.<\/p>\n

\tEarlier this month, Carter said the Church's teaching on the priesthood influences men to \"treat (women) as inferiors.\"<\/p>\n

\t\"The fact that the Catholic Church, for instance, prohibits women from serving as priests or even deacons gives a kind of a permission to male people all over the world, that well, if God thinks that women are inferior, I'll treat them as inferiors,\" he said in a March 22 interview with NPR.<\/p>\n

\t\"If she is my wife, I can abuse her with impunity, or if I'm an employer, I can pay female employees less salary.\u201d<\/p>\n

\tCarter has made similar comments discussing women, the priesthood, and Pope Francis on Huffington Post, CNN and other media outlets.<\/p>\n

\tJennifer Manning, a member of Catholic Voices USA, told CNA that \u201cto say that \u2018God thinks that women are inferior\u2019 because women cannot be priests in the Catholic Church is a gross misunderstanding not only of Catholicism, but of God.\u201d<\/p>\n

\tManning explained that Catholic teaching \"does not treat women as 'inferiors.' God created men and women with equal dignity, each in the image and likeness of God.\"<\/p>\n

\tShe said contemporary thinking may not agree with the Church's understanding of the complementary nature or \"harmony\" of men and women, yet \u201cthis symbolism reaches deeply into Catholicism.\u201d<\/p>\n

\t\u201cThe Church is the bride of Christ: Christ marries his Church, gives his life for his Church.\u201d<\/p>\n

\tKathryn Lopez, director of Catholic Voices USA, told CNA the Church has the highest \"love, regard, respect, and gratitude for women.\u201d<\/p>\n

\tThis love and respect for women is \"unmistakable watching Pope Francis, who works with and listens to\" women and has also \"said on more than one occasion that 'the Virgin Mary is more important than any bishop and any apostle.'\"<\/p>\n

\t\"This is no small thing,\" Lopez stressed, \"and I pray President Carter might consider talking with some Catholic women who love our faith before attacking it.\"<\/p>\n

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