Posted on 07/06/2005 5:58:23 AM PDT by NYer
LYON, France, July 5, 2005 (LifeSiteNews.com) - A French Cardinal has excommunicated a Catholic woman claiming she was "ordained" as a priest by three women who call themselves Roman Catholic bishops. For those supposing the next generation of church leaders will turn the church even more politically correct, the action by one of the Church's youngest Cardinals will come as a shocker. Lyon's Cardinal Archbishop Philippe Barbarin, 55, has followed in the footsteps of Pope Benedict XVI. Cardinal Barbarin excommunicated the woman who went through a false 'ordination' yesterday. Pope Benedict XVI, acting in 2002 as Cardinal Ratzinger, officially excommunicated two of the women "bishops" who performed the ceremony.
Genevieve Beney, a 56-year-old married physical education teacher and mother of two, was "ordained" Saturday on a boat on the Saone River near the eastern French city, by self-proclaimed "bishops" from the dissident movement Women's Ordination Worldwide as 60 activists who support female ordination looked on.
"This is not a rupture with the Roman Catholic Church," Beney claimed before the ceremony. "If there is a rupture on my part, it is with a situation that I consider to be obsolete and unjust to women."
"This act . . . does not fulfil any of the conditions required by the Catholic Church, and such a ceremony unequivocally constitutes a serious act of rupture with the Catholic Church," Lyon's Cardinal Barbarin corrected in a statement, according to a Reuters report. "There will be no truth to the words that will be pronounced," Barbarin said before the ceremony. "For many Catholics, this will be a source of useless injury and suffering."
Nine women activists, eight American and one Canadian, have announced that on July 25 they will conduct their own "ordination" ceremony on a boat on the St. Lawrence River. When LifeSiteNews.com contacted the Canadian Conference of Catholic Bishops about the impending "ordination" of the Canadian woman later this month, a spokesman there, unlike Cardinal Barbarin, said the CCCB had "no comment" and no plans in place, at least that the CCCB was willing to disclose, as to how they would respond to such an event.
See related LifeSiteNews.com coverage:
Nine Women Activists Fantasize they will Ordain themselves in "International Waters" of the St. Lawrence
http://www.lifesite.net/ldn/2005/jun/05060911.html
Read the response of the Vatican to the "Danube Seven"
http://www.ourladyswarriors.org/dissent/cdfprieste...
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This is one time I can praise the French for something. At least one French Catholic Bishop. I wonder how many American bishops would have been so bold.
All of them! The Catholic Church does not allow for women in the priesthood.
Now if only some US Cardinal would have the guts to give old Ted Kennedy and other CINO (Catholic in name only) pro abortion politicians the same treatment.
If she can claim to be a priest, then can't she claim to be un-excommunicated?..........I mean, if she can make her own rules to suit herself she can disregard any she doesn't like.......
Why are the US Bishops so lacking in intestinal fortitude?
In a way I bet these radicals went outside the USA in order to GET this reaction.
I'm sure the Wiccans will welcome her.
That cardinal looks like Michael Kinsley (sp?).......
As St Paul said:
Now we command you, brethren, in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, that ye withdraw yourselves from every brother that walketh disorderly, and not after the tradition which he received of us.2 Thessalonians 3:6
It's about radical feminism, and about attacking the church of their childhood, which tells them that their manner of life is wrong.
They could be Episcopal Priestesses tomorrow, if that was really what they wanted.
These Cardinals need to excummunicate some of those who claim to be Catholic such as, Kerry, Kennedy, etc. etc..
Money and destruction.
Well, that didn't take long. Good, she got the Cardinal Zot!
In Kennedy's case, it would with bell, book and bottle instead of bell, book and candle.
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