Roman Catholic Women Respond to Vatican Condemnation Publically and Privately/New Catholic Times/Canada

Patricia Fresen, Michele Birch -Conery(left to right, Ordinations in Canada 2008)

http://www.newcatholictimes.com/index.php?module=articles&func=display&aid=1916&ptid=1

"Roman Catholic Women Respond to Vatican Condemnation Publically and Privately" by Michele Birch-Conery
"...I publically admit that this recent Vatican pronouncement brought me to the deepest pain I have experienced since my ordination in Gananoque in 2005. It was not pain for me only but for the Roman Catholic Church and what I see as a deep wounding of the People of God.
There is strong historical resonance in the pronouncement. When I first heard it, images from the length of centuries arose in me. They came from our inquisitional past in a medieval time which included torture and execution for crimes against the Church. These were defined by the hierarchical leadership and driven the educated Inquisitors for the sake of the salvation of the uneducated peasantry. It was as if a window onto the past opened and the breath of Ruah rushed through me in one swift insight..."