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Content: In fact, the Dominican Sisters of Mary, Mother of the Eucharist, also based in Ann Arbor, is receiving so many inquiries from young women interested in entering the order they can't build facilities fast enough to accommodate the surge in vocations. "Their order offers clear evidence that when the God-given differentiation between male and female is honored, both men's and women's vocations flourish," DeFrancesco stated. Naturally, feminists are jumping all over this decision, saying it is being imposed by a male clergy that hates women. "This is not only disgraceful, it is impractical. Women comprise at least 80 per cent of church lay ministers, and they are backbone of most parishes around the world," says Erin Saiz Hanna, executive director of the Women's Ordination Conference. "The Vatican's stance on the ordination of women is based on arguments that have been refuted time and again. In 1976, the Vatican's own Pontifical Biblical Commission determined that there is no scriptural reason to prohibit women's ordination. Jesus included women as full and equal partners in his ministry, and the hierarchy would do well to follow suit," Hanna concluded. Hanna is using the usual distortions to try to build her case. The 1975 report of the Pontifical Biblical Commission did note that there are "no scriptural objections to ordaining women" but it didn't say it was okay to do so.