In her memoir eu?lo.gy, Blanchard wrote, ?The greatest sin of the Catholic Church is its failure to treat women as equals.? In 2014, at age 82, contrary to 'males-only? church law, Blanchard was ordained a Catholic woman priest. She states, ?Rebelling for its own sake is silly, a waste of time, but gender inequality with its catastrophic results must go. We women priests have taken a major step by leading the church, not leaving it.?