Ordination of Dena O'Callaghan
as a Catholic priest
Woman says she was called to become a Catholic priest
Sunday, February 28, 2010
By Donna Abramczyk
"For the past 35 years, Dena O’Callaghan has dreamed of something many consider an unreachable goal — to become a Roman Catholic priest.With her husband, John O’Callaghan, a former priest, and her sister and brother-in-law, Chris and John Zelasko of Brownstown Township, looking on, the 73-year-old former Wyandotte woman and nun was ordained a priest on Feb. 6 in Sarasota, Fla.Even with the threat of excommunication from the Diocese of Venice, in which the ceremony took place, a crowd of nearly 300 filled the church, St. Andrew United Church of Christ, O’Callaghan said...“We’re not leaving the church — it has left us.”O’Callaghan said Meehan once likened womenpriests to the civil rights movement.“We’re the ‘Rosa Parks of the movement,’ Bridget Mary told us,” she said. “It might take longer than civil rights did, but that’s our hope and prayer for the future.”
Sunday, February 28, 2010
By Donna Abramczyk
"For the past 35 years, Dena O’Callaghan has dreamed of something many consider an unreachable goal — to become a Roman Catholic priest.With her husband, John O’Callaghan, a former priest, and her sister and brother-in-law, Chris and John Zelasko of Brownstown Township, looking on, the 73-year-old former Wyandotte woman and nun was ordained a priest on Feb. 6 in Sarasota, Fla.Even with the threat of excommunication from the Diocese of Venice, in which the ceremony took place, a crowd of nearly 300 filled the church, St. Andrew United Church of Christ, O’Callaghan said...“We’re not leaving the church — it has left us.”O’Callaghan said Meehan once likened womenpriests to the civil rights movement.“We’re the ‘Rosa Parks of the movement,’ Bridget Mary told us,” she said. “It might take longer than civil rights did, but that’s our hope and prayer for the future.”
For more information about Roman Catholic Womenpriests, visit wwww.romancatholicwomenpriests.org.
URL: http://www.thenewsherald.com/articles/2010/02/28/life/doc4b86842dacd77829880545.prt
URL: http://www.thenewsherald.com/articles/2010/02/28/life/doc4b86842dacd77829880545.prt
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