Under the Big Top!
I am starting to be convinced that the least valuable (and academically rigorous) degree offered on university campuses today is the Bachelor of Science in Journalism. At least I think it's a B.S. - it could be a Bachelor of Arts. I can't tell, since the SIUC Journalism website doesn't say. Anyway, here are the first lines of a story with the byline:
In a few days Georgia Walker, at age 67, intends to become a priest, at which point she will be excommunicated from the Roman Catholic Church.
That doesn’t faze her.
“I don’t accept the legitimacy of that excommunication,” said Walker, who will be the first woman in Kansas City to defy the church and be ordained a priest.
The church in turn will not accept the legitimacy of her ordination because, under canon law, only men can be priests.
“That’s their problem,” Walker said of the church.
That steadfastness is a trait of the Association of Roman Catholic Women Priests, a growing movement of people who see the church as too authoritarian and unwilling to be inclusive. But instead of leaving the church, they hope to change it from within.
Got that? She is becoming a priest (made a priest by a Lutheran), and then being excommunicated. It doesn't matter though, because she doesn't accept it. Radical wymyn priests hope to change the Church from within by...being excommunicated.
In a few days Georgia Walker, at age 67, intends to become a priest, at which point she will be excommunicated from the Roman Catholic Church.
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| Georgia Walker, Wymyn Priest |
“I don’t accept the legitimacy of that excommunication,” said Walker, who will be the first woman in Kansas City to defy the church and be ordained a priest.
The church in turn will not accept the legitimacy of her ordination because, under canon law, only men can be priests.
“That’s their problem,” Walker said of the church.
That steadfastness is a trait of the Association of Roman Catholic Women Priests, a growing movement of people who see the church as too authoritarian and unwilling to be inclusive. But instead of leaving the church, they hope to change it from within.
Got that? She is becoming a priest (made a priest by a Lutheran), and then being excommunicated. It doesn't matter though, because she doesn't accept it. Radical wymyn priests hope to change the Church from within by...being excommunicated.
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| Walker calls together her flock of Lutherans |
Labels: Wymyn priests
posted by jope @ December 28, 2014
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