Roman Catholic Womenpriests: Three Ordained in Santa Barbara on June 20, 2010

Bishop Olivia Doko ordains Patricia Sandall a priest

Bishop Olivia Doko, (western region/rcwp) ordained Patricia Sandall a priest, and Bertha Popeney and Michael Tompkins, deacons on June 20, 2010 in Santa Barbara, California.

http://www.thedailysound.com/News/061710womenpriests

"Local women seek equality in church"

By ERIC LINDBERG — June 17, 2010

She could feel it in her bones, a call to the priesthood.

The fact that she faced an uphill battle to be ordained in the Roman Catholic Church, which rejects women as priests, only strengthened her resolve.

“They can excommunicate us and they do say we’re excommunicated, but we don’t really buy into that,” said Patricia Sandall, a local resident who will be ordained as a priest this Saturday in Santa Barbara. “We can’t be excommunicated from the church of our baptism. We understand we’re breaking a manmade law, but we’re doing that because it’s an unjust law and needs to be changed.”

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Article in California Catholic

http://www.calcatholic.com/news/newsArticle.aspx?id=7fe9d3cc-f7c8-4bc3-b4dc-cf7c7fd6a14c

"Those involved are fully aware of – and openly defiant of – the Church’s position that women cannot be ordained as priests. “They can excommunicate us and they do say we’re excommunicated, but we don’t really buy into that,” Sandall told the Daily Sound. “We can’t be excommunicated from the church of our baptism. We understand we’re breaking a manmade law, but we’re doing that because it’s an unjust law and needs to be changed.”

“While working in a local parish several years ago, Sandall came into the folds of the Roman Catholic Womenpriests, a somewhat rogue movement seeking to return women to a leadership role in the church,” the Daily Sound reported. “Coupling her longtime involvement in the church with her interest in feminist studies, she made the decision to pursue the priesthood.”