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Sunday, September 11, 2011 by Noel Debien with Dr Patricia Fresen
"If you are a religious person, how much would you sacrifice for your beliefs?
Our guest on the good life in this episode is a formally excommunicated Catholic- the first one I have ever met in person. Heretic or woman of conscience? You decide.
South African Dr Patricia Fresen is a former Dominican nun, a Professor of Systematic theology, and now says she is ordained as a Roman Catholic bishop. Patricia Fresen's ecclesiastical crime was not stealing money or engaging in corruption. She was not charged with sexually assaulting minors. Rather she was charged with something far worse in the eyes of Catholic church law. She says she has been secretly ordained a bishop by a male Catholic bishop in good standing, and refuses to recant her position. She told the ABC the bishop who ordained her believes it is right to ordain women as well as men. As you would know dear listener, for a woman to be ordained in the Catholic church is one of the most serious of crimes against the catholic faith. The Goodlife spoke with South African Patricia Fresen to find out why, in her personal journey to lead the goodlife, she defied the authority of the Catholic church she served for 45 years as a nun to follow her own conscience. Accordingly, she risked everything to lead her new organisation..." Stay tuned for next Sunday/ Part 2/ Bishop Patricia Fresen's Story"
Sunday, September 11, 2011 by Noel Debien with Dr Patricia Fresen
"If you are a religious person, how much would you sacrifice for your beliefs?
Our guest on the good life in this episode is a formally excommunicated Catholic- the first one I have ever met in person. Heretic or woman of conscience? You decide.
South African Dr Patricia Fresen is a former Dominican nun, a Professor of Systematic theology, and now says she is ordained as a Roman Catholic bishop. Patricia Fresen's ecclesiastical crime was not stealing money or engaging in corruption. She was not charged with sexually assaulting minors. Rather she was charged with something far worse in the eyes of Catholic church law. She says she has been secretly ordained a bishop by a male Catholic bishop in good standing, and refuses to recant her position. She told the ABC the bishop who ordained her believes it is right to ordain women as well as men. As you would know dear listener, for a woman to be ordained in the Catholic church is one of the most serious of crimes against the catholic faith. The Goodlife spoke with South African Patricia Fresen to find out why, in her personal journey to lead the goodlife, she defied the authority of the Catholic church she served for 45 years as a nun to follow her own conscience. Accordingly, she risked everything to lead her new organisation..." Stay tuned for next Sunday/ Part 2/ Bishop Patricia Fresen's Story"
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