New book: When Soline Humbert announced her vocation to be a priest, she got threats and abuse

 

https://www.irishtimes.com/opinion/2025/10/12/rite-and-reason-when-soline-humbert-went-public-with-her-vocation-to-be-a-priest-she-got-threats-and-abuse/?fbclid=IwdGRjcANYrSpleHRuA2FlbQIxMQABHjTo95xFEoPt2VaY3PneeeHN_zQwNFod3C6QyF7lO1rHTpBEmKo5jg9X-b4z_aem_B4w8UY4myuOedJHgJEsuzw 

Rite & Reason: Humbert recounts how one priest shouted to her face: ‘Women priests? Over my dead body!’ 

Soline Humbert's book 'will resonate with many Catholic women who don’t see themselves represented on their church's altar. Photograph: Matt Kavanagh 

Ursula Halligan

Sun Oct 12 2025 - 00:30“‘How long does it take to become a priest?’ asked the child. ‘A lifetime,’ replied the old priest. 

“But if you are a little girl, it will take several lifetimes, generations. When I first heard the call to priesthood years ago, I wondered how I would be able to live with it in a Church which denied it.”