Church errs in casting out women, but not predator priests
By Margery Eagan Tuesday, July 22, 2008
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The latest uppitty women to get whacked by the Roman Catholic Churchare would-be priests Judy Lee of Florida, Gloria Carpeneto ofMaryland and Gabriella Verlardi Ward of New York.Sunday in Boston all three were "ordained" in a ceremony run by a pro-women priest organization. The Archdiocese of Boston promptlydeclared that the women had automatically excommunicated themselvesby such action. Their excommunicable sin: yearning to dedicatethemselves to the church and faith they love.
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By Margery Eagan Tuesday, July 22, 2008
http://http://www.bostonherald/.com
The latest uppitty women to get whacked by the Roman Catholic Churchare would-be priests Judy Lee of Florida, Gloria Carpeneto ofMaryland and Gabriella Verlardi Ward of New York.Sunday in Boston all three were "ordained" in a ceremony run by a pro-women priest organization. The Archdiocese of Boston promptlydeclared that the women had automatically excommunicated themselvesby such action. Their excommunicable sin: yearning to dedicatethemselves to the church and faith they love.
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Role of women in the Catholic Church questioned
Mary Ann McCarthy Schoettly, of Newton, is ordained a Roman Catholic deacon by Bishop Dana Reynolds, of California, during a ceremony in Boston on Sunday.
By BRUCE A. SCRUTON
bscruton@njherald.com
NEWTON -- If the Catholic Church is just the hierarchy in Rome and the Vatican, then Mary Ann McCarthy Schoettly admits she is acting outside the church.
"But there is difference between the official church and what I see the church as the people," said Schoettly.
Despite a promise of immediate excommunication, Schoettly was ordained a deacon in the Roman Catholic faith on Sunday in the same Boston ceremony that ordained three other women as priests.
The women belong to an organization known as Roman Catholic Womenpriests, which portrays itself as not a splinter group of Catholics, but Catholics working within the church and advocating change.
That change, they argue, is actually reverting to the church's roots, where women acted as priests and leaders and, some say, were the "apostles to the apostles" because it was women who brought the news that Christ had risen.
Mary Ann McCarthy Schoettly, of Newton, is ordained a Roman Catholic deacon by Bishop Dana Reynolds, of California, during a ceremony in Boston on Sunday.
By BRUCE A. SCRUTON
bscruton@njherald.com
NEWTON -- If the Catholic Church is just the hierarchy in Rome and the Vatican, then Mary Ann McCarthy Schoettly admits she is acting outside the church.
"But there is difference between the official church and what I see the church as the people," said Schoettly.
Despite a promise of immediate excommunication, Schoettly was ordained a deacon in the Roman Catholic faith on Sunday in the same Boston ceremony that ordained three other women as priests.
The women belong to an organization known as Roman Catholic Womenpriests, which portrays itself as not a splinter group of Catholics, but Catholics working within the church and advocating change.
That change, they argue, is actually reverting to the church's roots, where women acted as priests and leaders and, some say, were the "apostles to the apostles" because it was women who brought the news that Christ had risen.
Three women risk being excommunicated for desire to be priests
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