"Former Catholic Priest Dismissed for Ordaining Kentucky Woman"-Janice Sevre-Duszynska -Courier Journal

http://www.courier-journal.com/article/20121122/FEATURES10/311220042/Former-Catholic-priest-expelled-ordaining-Kentucky-woman?nclick_check=1

Left to right: Bridget Mary Meehan, Roy Bourgeois Dana Reynolds, Janice Sevre-Duszysnka,Kathy Reddig, Ree Hudson

by Peter Smith

...."Bourgeois also served prison time in the United States for his protests of the School of the Americas at Fort Benning, Ga., which Bourgeois and other critics link the school to human rights abuses by its Latin American alumni. .
This past weekend he led the 22nd annual protest at a school at Fort Benning, Ga.
Sevre-Duszynska participated in protests at Fort Benning, serving a 90-day sentence for trespassing there in 2002. She called Bourgeois “a priest and prophet of the grassroots. He is helping to midwife, to nourish the beginnings of a new church.
In a written statement, Bourgeois said he joined the Maryknoll order “because of its work for justice and equality in the world.”
“To be expelled from Maryknoll and the priesthood for believing that women are also called to be priests is very difficult and painful,” he continued.
“The Vatican and Maryknoll can dismiss me, but they cannot dismiss the issue of gender equality in the Catholic Church. ”
His only regret, he wrote, “is that it took me so long to confront the issue of male power and domination in the Catholic Church.”