"'Being a woman priest is what I feel I am called to do' '" by Patsy McGarry / Irish Times

http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/weekend/2010/0731/1224275874936.html

PATSY McGARRY Religious Affairs Correspondent

Sat, Jul 31, 2010

"The Vatican’s directive confirming its policy of excommunication for those involved in the ordination of women has been greeted with defiance by dissidents in the US and dismay by Irish campaigners...

Bishop Bridget Mary Meehan is a leader of an ever-growing band of dissidents from this policy. She is “happy to be excommunicated. If they keep going like this there’ll soon be more ‘out’ than ‘in’. We’re at the heart of the church, renewing it. We’re not going to put up with second-class membership any more. We are an empowered community of Catholics. Mysticism and social justice are in my DNA as an Irish Catholic. I love the faith, but this corrupt church has to be reformed. Where are the excommunicated paedophiles or bishops who covered up the abuse of children?...”