Nov 17 2008
Catholic Priest Faces Excommunication Over Women Priests
This week, Father Roy Bourgeois, who helped found the group, School of the America’s Watch, faces ex-communication from the Roman Catholic Church. The Maryknoll priest of thirty-six years could be subjected to the harshest form of ecclesiastical punishment for his participation in the ordination of a woman into priesthood. In August, Bourgeois gave a homily in Lexington, Kentucky at a Unitarian Universalist church ceremony where his friend, Janice Sevre-Duszynska of the Roman Catholic Womenpriests organization, was ordained. Months later, as Father Bourgeois recounted in an article in the New York Times, the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith sent a letter giving him thirty days to recant or face excommunication. In response, Bourgeois sent his own letter arguing that there is no scriptural justification for excluding women as priests and derided sexism as sin. Should Father Bourgeois, who makes his home in an apartment just outside of the School of the Americas compound in Georgia, be excommunicated, he would face the loss of material benefits as well as the ability to receive and administer the holy sacraments of his faith.
GUEST: Father Roy Bourgeois, Founder of the School of the Americas Watch. For more information, visit http://www.opticalrealities.org/SupportRoyBourgeois.html and http://ncronline3.org/drupal/?q=node/2545.
2 Responses to “Catholic Priest Faces Excommunication Over Women Priests”
Jesus was never afraid to defy Jewish convention; he cured on the Sabbath.If He had wanted women priests He would have had Our Blessed Lady at the Last Supper.If He wants the Church to have women priests now He will raise up a saint and instruct that person to go to Rome with a direct message to the Holy Father.All women of real faith should remember Mary at Cana” Do as He tells you.” He is represented now by His Rock ,our Petrus, Benedict XV1.
Mary
Mary Magdalene was an apostle of Jesus — why do you He gave her the word of his resurrection first? Even the Eastern Orthodox Church recognizes Mary Magdalene as an apostle to the apostles. Perhaps she was not at the Last Supper because it would have been an impropriety for her to be alone in a room with twelve unmarried men…or perhaps she was there and was not written about. That being said, as a woman of “real faith” I say that any Catholic who assumes the subordination of women is God’s will should re-read the New Testament and consider what is in their hearts. If you can’t handle the presence of a woman…who is the sinner in that case? The woman…or you who acknowledge her as a lesser being in God’s sight?