THE NERVE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!  :barf:

http://www.npr.org/2011/06/12/137102746/women-priests-defy-the-church-at-the-altar

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Roman Catholic "Womenpriests" on their ordination day, June 4, at St. John's United Church of Christ in Catonsville, Md.
 
In 2002, seven women were secretly ordained as priests by two Roman Catholic bishops in Germany. After their ordination, a kind of domino effect ensued.

Those seven women went on to ordain other women, and a movement to ordain female priests all around the world was born. The movement, named Roman Catholic Womenpriests, says more than a hundred women have been ordained since 2002, and two-thirds of them are in the U.S.

On a recent June day in Maryland, four more women were ordained as priests. The gallery at St. John's United Church of Christ was filled with Catholic priests and nuns, there to support the women and the ordination movement — though visitors were asked not to photograph them. Witnessing the ceremony was enough to risk excommunication.

The audience turned to watch as the women made their way down the aisle, beaming like brides. The two-and-a-half-hour ceremony ended with Holy Communion — the moment they'd been waiting for. Each woman performed the rites for the first time as a priest, breaking bread and serving wine as tears of joy flowed down their faces.

Marellen Mayers is one of the women ordained that day, and like her fellow ordinands, she was raised in the Catholic Church. Her mother had an altar at home, and when Mayers was a child, she would stand in front of it, wearing a cloth as her vestments and saying the Latin Mass.

"My brother and sister would be kneeling behind me, and if I said, 'Dominus vobiscuм,' I would turn around and say, 'You're supposed to say 'Et cuм spiritu tuo,' " Mayers recalls.

Fellow ordinand Patti LaRosa had a similar experience growing up. She came from a close-knit Italian family and always felt comfortable in the Catholic Church. In the late '70s she got married, had two kids and was working as an assistant at a law firm in Rochester, N.Y.

Several times a week she would go to church during her lunch break, and one day she realized, "I'm supposed to be a priest."

As members of the Roman Catholic Church, these female priests are all breaking church rules, which allow ordination only to baptized males. No member of the Roman Catholic Womenpriests has been excommunicated by the Church, but they have felt repercussions. They've not only been threatened but also have lost friends and colleagues within the Church — many of whom fear they will lose their jobs if they support the women's ordination movement openly.

LaRosa recognizes they are breaking Church law — specifically Canon 10:24 — but says, "when you have an unjust law, sometimes it needs to be broken before it can be changed."

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I think it might be just a spelling error:  


Female Priests Deify Catholic Church at the Altar


After all, they capitalized "At" and "The" in error, so that's two already.


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I believe they will be in "full" communion with the Conciliar sect by 2017 and in time for the celebration with the Lutherans of the 500th anniversary of Luther's schism.

Meanwhile, Menzingen will still be on the outside longing to be in.

That article is wrong.  Those women were not ordained as priests.  It is impossible for a woman to be ordained as a priest.  There were unsuccessful attempts to ordain those women but not a single one took effect.

These people might as well proclaim that the law of gravity is an unjust law and try to break it.

Good point.  In reality, this is an impossibility.

Why didn't someone call the police?

These people might as well proclaim that the law of gravity is an unjust law and try to break it.

One could only hope.

Perhaps they might test that out by jumping off a skyscraper.

Just kidding; we need to pray for them.  It's one thing for a woman to have a desire to be a priest (St. Therese desired it for all the right reasons); quite another for them to defy Church dogma.  They're clearly heretics.

Does this constitute a desecration of that church?

It would seem to be the case!

Good question!

If it does, every Mass offered there before the bishop exorcises the church
and consecrates it again (including mentioning the name of the church, not
something like the diocese or the country or the world or whatever) would
be a sacrilegious Mass.

From what I've heard, Mass can be offered in places that are not consecrated,
like a hotel banquet hall or the hood of a jeep during wartime or things like
that, but once a church is consecrated and then desecrated, it's a different
story.


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