We Are Church Ireland's Will Deliver Statement of Protest About Fr. Roy Bourgeois's Dismissal from Maryknoll to the Vatican on Friday, Nov. 23, 2012

Father Roy Bourgeous , an internationally renowned U.S. Maryknoll priest has been excommunicated , dismissed from his Maryknoll Order and laicised from the priesthood for what his order calls his ‘disobedience and preaching against the teachings of the Catholic Church about women’s ordination’.

Last month the Vatican’s Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith had instructed the Maryknoll order to dismiss Fr. Bourgeous.

Fr. Bourgeous was a member of the Maryknoll order for 45 years and a priest for the past 39 years.

He was also very active in the International peace movement especially in Latin America.

‘This suppression of any discussion within the Catholic Church on women’s ordination is an unacceptable infringement of Christian thought and must be resisted especially by the Catholic faithful. We are Church Ireland encourage concerned Catholics to contact the Maryknoll Order at Email mkweb@maryknoll.org and express their great sense of betrayal by the Maryknoll Order in not defending Fr. Roy Bourgeous from the dictates of the Vatican’s Congregation for the Doctrine of the faith’

stated Brendan Butler spokesperson ,We are Church.

On Friday 23^rd November at 11 a.m. Mr. Brendan Butler will hand in a letter of protest about the dismissal of Fr . Roy and a call for the lifting on the ban on women priests to the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith , Rome , Italy

Further information : Brendan Butler 0864054984