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Pope to Excommunicate Women Priests and Those Who Ordain Them!
It has issued a decree warning that women ordained as priests would be excommunicated from the church itself.
And those who ordain them too would meet with a similar fate.
In fact by the very act of ordination those concerned would stand excommunicated, stresses the decree published in the Vatican newspaper L’Osservatore Romano.
The decree was signed by Cardinal William Levada, prefect of the congregation for the doctrine of the faith.
People excommunicated from the Catholic Church are forbidden from receiving the sacraments or sharing in acts of public worship.
Rev. Tom Reese, a senior fellow at the Woodstock Theological Center at Georgetown University, said he thought the decree was meant to send a warning to the growing number of Catholics who favour admitting women to the priesthood.
"I think the reason they’re doing this is that they’ve realised there is more and more support among Catholics for ordaining women, and they want to make clear that this is a no-no," Reese said.
But Regina Nicolosi, a program coordinator for Roman Catholic Womenpriests (sic), and who was ordained two years ago, remained defiant.
"We have come not to take that too seriously," said Nicolosi, a 66-year-old married mother and grandmother who lives in Red Wing, Minnesota, and said her group had 40 to 50 women priests, none of whom were recognized by the church hierarchy.
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06/08/2008
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06/01/2008
Strange that these women who seek an inclusive church that honours human rights are treated as criminals and excommunicated but the pedophile priests and those Bishops who protected them remain members in good standing of this institution. I am sure Jesus repudiates such hypocrisy. And the edict came down on the 577th anniversary of Joan d'Arc being burned at the stake by, none other than church bishops & cohorts. It only took another 489 years for her to be canonized. These brave women who obey the Holy Spirit rather than the Pope will be honoured one day for their prophetic witnessing. |
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This is great news for faithful Catholics, but bad news for the liberals and dissidents.
Maybe they would like to start their own Church, called "WomanChurch".