[size=14pt]Female Priests Invade Catholic Church[/size]
Oct 5th, 2010.


Over 100 women have ordained themselves Catholic priests in the United States of America and other parts of the world and this is tearing the Roman Catholic Church apart.
Ordinarily, the Catholic Church only operates with male priests also known as Reverend Fathers while the female are Nuns or Reverend Sisters. But the female are not allowed to perform rites during mass and this has not gone down well with some of them.
One of the female priests, Judy Lee, 67, who has been conducting mass for 25 Catholics in the US says she is aware of the threat by Pope Benedict to excommunicate anyone who disobeys the laid down rule but accused Rome of gender insensitivity.
The group, which calls itself Roman Catholic Womenpriests, founded eight years ago in Europe, has been ordaining women who think they are capable of performing the rites as reported by Time, an international news magazine this week.
It ordained women like Lee and Nancy Corran, who is now 37. The group is said to operate in more than 20 American states and Canada.
Womenpriests and other organisations promoting female Catholic clerics, like the Women’s Ordination Conference, don’t expect to change Vatican doctrine anytime soon.




A female priest.


But their growing following signals that Catholics, already incensed by the never ending clerical sexual-abuse crisis, are losing patience with Rome’s refusal to let women into the leadership of a church to which more than 20% of Americans belong.
Though Lee was told by one of the church’s Bishop, Rev. Frank Dewane that the Catholic Church had no authority to confer priestly ordination on women because Jesus had no female Apostle, she was said to have replied: “Rome can impose all the rules it wants on women, divorced people, gay people. But it can’t stop us.”
Mary Meehan, a Womenpriests Bishop and former nun also stressed: “We’re the Rosa Parks of the Catholic Church. “We no longer accept second-class status in our own religion.”
Meehan, 62, once did ministry work that included “everything a priest does,” she says — except saying Mass.
So in 2006 she was made a priest by a group of German female theologians who four years earlier had been ordained by a renegade cleric — and who were made bishops, by a sympathetic European bishop whose identity they won’t reveal according to the report.
Members of the group who are said to hold advance religious degrees and have participated in lay works in the Catholic church rely on the Da Vinci Code, which argues in their favour. While some of them are married, another doctrinal abomination by the church, others have outside jobs where they get salaries.
They also maintain that the New Testament and early Christian art show that women like Mary Magdalene, one of Jesus’ most trusted followers, were apostles, priests and bishops before medieval misogyny took hold of the church.
“They perform baptisms and legally recognized marriages. They say Mass in private homes or sanctuaries lent by Protestant churches,” the report said adding that most of the 65 million Catholics in the US consider the church’s logic behind the ban on female priests to be as thin as a Communion wafer.
A recent poll conducted by the New York Times shows that 59 per cent of the worshippers favour ordaining women.
Conservative Catholics say this is really about feminist politics, and certainly there is overlap. The Womenpriests use a liturgy that stresses gender neutrality (“In the name of God our Father and Mother …”), and they don’t toe the Vatican line against birth control and abortion, endorsing instead the Catholic tenet of informed individual conscience.
They also favor the kind of new-age, Mother Earth music that can grate on even progressive Catholics the report also explained.
—Eromosele Ebhomele

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religion evolving!

The women are asking for their own piece of the action. Money is for free in the churches.

This is a Catholic Church. The money almost always goes straight to the Vatican.

The writing has been ön the wall since so I'm not surprised.

When they see the likes of Paula White, Joyce Meyer etc on the pulpit , it's only natural for the females in the catholic church to wanna do the same thing.

Good for them

The women are only living in fools paradise.There is nothing like female priest in the catholic church.Once a group of women declares themselves priest ,they become automatically excomnicated which means there are no longer catholics.

Excommunicated, filed to go to hell. there was this emperor that knelt in the snow for about three days, pleading to the pope to relieve fom condemnation in hell.

the role and contributions of women in the Catholic Church.
http://www.bravoprojecthelp.com/education/the-role-and-contributions-of-women-in-the-catholic-church/