Roman Catholic Womynpriests are up to their play-acting again. This time in Boston. Roman Catholic Womenpriests, who are neither Roman Catholic or Womanpriests, claim to be “ordaining” three additional women. In fact, it is actually an excommunication ceremony.
[Boston] Three aspiring Catholic priests will be anointed and prayed over this weekend in an ordination liturgy that will resemble the traditional in most ways but one: The three being ordained are women.
The ordination ceremony Sunday, at a historic Protestant church in the Back Bay, is the first such event to take place in Boston, one of the most Catholic cities in the nation.
The Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Boston, in accord with Vatican teaching, says the participants in the ordination ceremony will be automatically excommunicating themselves.
But the women being ordained say they are acting because they feel called to the priesthood and compelled to resist what they view as a wrong church teaching.
“We’re part of a prophetic tradition of disobeying an unjust law,” said Gabriella Velardi Ward, a 61-year-old Staten Island architect with two children and five grandchildren, who will be ordained along with Gloria Carpeneto of Baltimore and Mary Ann McCarthy Schoettly of Newton, N.J.
Ward said she has wanted to be a priest since age 5, and that she actively considered becoming a nun before deciding that the priesthood was her calling because she wants to be able to celebrate Catholic sacraments.
Of course, the Boston Globe treats these freaky fraus seriously. Leaving the usual media bias aside, did you notice where the “ordination” would be taking place, a protestant church.
The ordination will be Sunday afternoon in Church of the Covenant on Newbury Street in Boston’s Back Bay. The church is affiliated with two Protestant denominations, the Presbyterian Church (USA) and the United Church of Christ.
The interim pastor of Church of the Covenant, the Rev. Jennifer Wegter-McNelly, said the congregation decided to rent its historic space, with Tiffany windows depicting women of the Bible, at a nominal fee to show support.
“It’s our effort to encourage and celebrate with them,” Wegter-McNelly said. “This church’s commitment to women goes back a long time.”
The last time this happened in St. Louis happened it was in a synagogue. I suppose that is what you get for 40 years of ecumenism, Vatican II style. You are viewed as a doormat. Nice.
Anyway, the Archdiocese has taken the appropriate line on these shenanigans.
“Catholics who attempt to confer a sacred order on a woman, and the women who attempt to receive a sacred order, are by their own actions separating themselves from the church,” the archdiocese said. “As a faith community rooted in the loving ministry of Jesus Christ, we pray for those who have willingly fallen away from the church by participating in such activities.”
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But the archdiocese also said it hopes the women involved will seek “reconciliation” with the Catholic Church, and said, “Following our devotion to Mary, the church is committed to, and sustained by the many important contributions of women each and every day.”
The womynpriest movement presents us with an opportunity. Why don’t these dizzy dames send their “magic crackers” to PZ Myers. That way they can both have their fun, and leave Jesus out of it.
July 18, 2008 at 3:51 pm
“As a faith community rooted in the loving ministry of Jesus Christ, we pray for those who have willingly fallen away from the church by participating in such activities.”
Aww, how cute, now we sound like every Protestant domination.
We’re a Church. Get it right.
July 18, 2008 at 4:13 pm
poor old girls, no matter how much they try they’re just playing dress up
July 18, 2008 at 4:38 pm
Why are they always called “womenpriests”?
Why don’t they use the accurate term: “priestesses”?
Why make up a word when we already have a good one which means the exact same thing?
Oh, that’s right, because it doesn’t sound Christian. Wonder why that is…
God Bless,
Ryan
July 18, 2008 at 5:43 pm
Well at least they picked the right location a Protestant church – they should feel right at home.
July 18, 2008 at 7:22 pm
Sooner or later, even such vast inanities like the Boston Globe, et al, will tire of this nonsense. And yes, ICB, the Archdiocese statement is pretty vapid. But typical for an American diocese. Boston isn’t exactly Linoln, NE or even St. Louis.
These elderly ladies have pushed the issue around the block just too many times now. It’s become like goldfish swallowing and flagpole sitting–too dull and now commonplace to keep an oft drowsy and bored nation awake. Especially in the haet of mid-July.
July 19, 2008 at 2:52 am
This ordination brought to you by Depends…
— Mack
July 19, 2008 at 2:33 pm
Why don’t these dizzy dames send their “magic crackers” to PZ Myers…and leave Jesus out of it. Brilliant!
I don’t blame the protestants for renting out their church – especially if it goes to upkeep for the Tiffany windows.
July 20, 2008 at 4:26 am
It’s sad and unfortunate, a mockery of Holy Orders, but do we really need to make fun of people just to make a point? Dizzy dames, Depends…etc. Is that necessary?