{"id":4418,"date":"2008-11-17T11:03:03","date_gmt":"2008-11-17T18:03:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/?p=4418"},"modified":"2008-11-17T11:03:03","modified_gmt":"2008-11-17T18:03:03","slug":"catholic-priest-faces-excommunication-over-women-priests","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/2008\/11\/17\/catholic-priest-faces-excommunication-over-women-priests\/","title":{"rendered":"Catholic Priest Faces Excommunication Over Women Priests"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" border=0 src=\"graphics\/listen.gif\"\/> <ul class=\"inline-playlist playlist\" title=\"\"><li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.archive.org\/download\/DailyDigest_11_17_08\/2008_11_17_bourgeois.mp3\">Listen to  this segment <\/a><\/li><\/ul>| <a href=\"http:\/\/www.archive.org\/download\/DailyDigest_11_17_08\/2008_11_17_uprising.MP3\">  the entire program<\/a> <\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" align=right width=55% src=\"http:\/\/woc.smugmug.com\/photos\/351200147_yy3HY-M.jpg\" alt=\"women priests\" \/>This week, Father Roy Bourgeois, who helped found the group, School of the America\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s 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. <\/p>\n<p><em>GUEST: Father Roy Bourgeois, Founder of the School of the Americas Watch<\/em>. For more information, visit <a href=\"http:\/\/www.opticalrealities.org\/SupportRoyBourgeois.html\">http:\/\/www.opticalrealities.org\/SupportRoyBourgeois.html<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/ncronline3.org\/drupal\/?q=node\/2545\">http:\/\/ncronline3.org\/drupal\/?q=node\/2545<\/a>. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>| the entire program This week, Father Roy Bourgeois, who helped found the group, School of the America\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s 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, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4418","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-program"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4418","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4418"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4418\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4418"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4418"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4418"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}