Enough with the female priest stories already

>>>Look at this story below.  Lily Percy is the author and it appeared on an NPR website.  It is so wrong on so many levels.  First of all, no women have been ordained priests.  It can't happen.  Ordination requires proper minister, proper form and proper matter.  The proper minister of course is a Bishop, in full communion with the Church.  The proper matter is a ordinand who happens to be male.  This author makes matters worse by throwing around the term "Catholic" as if these women would still be considered such.  By their very involvement they incur excommunication, whether we have an official church decree or not.  And if they are ordained Catholic Priests why do they need a United Church of Christ facility to be ordained?  This is not news.  Senasationalism at best.  Perhaps some hope that this will help sow confusion among Catholics who take little time to check things out.

So enough with the women priest deal; has never happened, did not happen and will not happen.

May I suggest sincere prayers for these women and those who render them support in this disobedient endeavor.

God will not be mocked!


Female Priests Defy Catholic Church At The Altar
by Lily Percy

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 vobiscum,' I would turn around and say, 'You're supposed to say 'Et cum spiritu tuo,' " Mayers recalls.

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."