Stained Glass Ceiling' Focus of Local (CTA) Conference/Grand Ledge Independent/ Lansing, MI.

Roman Catholic Womanpriest
Mary Ellen Robertson
http://www.lansingstatejournal.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=20109190459

by Mary Jo White

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"Grand Ledge resident Karen Schrauben was one of the organizers of the day-long event and led the prayer service at its end, along with local married priest Dick Preston and Mary Ellen Robertson from Muskegon. Robertson has been ordained by Roman Catholic Womenpriest, a group not recognized by the Vatican which considers the attempted ordination of a woman among the "most grievous crimes," along with pedophilia."

"CTA is calling for needed change in our church," Schrauben said. "Women are definitely being discriminated against at all levels."

"The CTA keynote speaker was Fr. Roy Bourgeois, a Maryknoll priest who founded the "School of the Americas Watch" in 1990 to oppose the training of Latin American soldiers in Fort Benning, Ga.More recently Bourgeois has taken a stand in support of the ordination of Roman Catholic women because he sees their exclusion from the priesthood as a justice issue. This is a grave injustice," he told the CTA audience. "Who are we as men to reject God's call to women to priesthood? Isn't God capable of empowering a woman? "...

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