"Robes for Women: Against Vatican Resistance, the Movement to Ordain Women Gathers Steam" in TIME

Judy Lee, RCWP ministers to
homeless and poor in Ft. Myers, Fl.


Jane Via, RCWP
Mary Magdalene Apostle Community,
San Diego,CA.

http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,2019635,00.html

by Tim Padgett/Ft. Myers/TIME magazine

"Like any good priest, Judy Lee knows how to use a Bible story. One of the readings for Roman Catholic Masses on a recent Sunday, from the Book of Wisdom, recounts how the Hebrews defied the pharaoh by worshipping God "in secret." That passage resonates at the house in Fort Myers, Fla., where Lee is conducting Mass for 25 Catholics gathered in front of a coffee-table altar in defiance of the Pope. "Rome says you'll be thrown out of the church for being here," says Lee, "because I'm a woman."
"We're the Rosa Parks of the Catholic Church," says Bridget Mary Meehan,...We no longer accept second-class status in our own religion..." Like Meehan, most of he almost 80 Catholic women ordained in the U.S. hold advanced religious degrees and have logged years of lay work in the church, from premarriage counseling to serving Communion. Mary are married-another doctrinal no-no. since Catholic priests, with rare exceptions, must be celibate- and they often have outside jobs to make ends meet... Mary Magdalene Apostle's pastor Jane Via, is a San Diego County prosecutor. .."

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