"Explain to us what happened" (Catholic priest participates in 'womanpriest' ordination)

Last month, Dana Reynolds, a Carmel-by-the Sea woman who claims she is a Catholic bishop, ordained three “womenpriests” in Boston. On Aug. 8, Reynolds ordained another womanpriest, Janice Sevre-Duszynska, at a Unitarian church in Lexington, Kentucky. This “ordination,” however, was unique, for it was the first to involve a Catholic priest in good standing with the Church.

[[WomanBishopReynolds081508.jpg]]Sevre-Duszynska, 58, has said she will serve as an itinerant priest, “speaking out for the voiceless and challenging the powers that be to hear the call of nonviolence and cooperation in our world community,” reported the Aug. 9 National Catholic Reporter. She has been something of an activist over the years. In 2001, she was arrested at a protest held at Fort Benning, Georgia, whose Western Hemisphere Institute for Security Cooperation (formerly the School of the Americas) has, according to critics, been complicit in human rights abuses. In 2005, on the 60th anniversary of the bombing of Hiroshima, Sevre-Duszynska was arrested for trespassing at the Nevada nuclear weapons testing site.

Sevre-Duszynska has said, according to July 30 Lexington, Kentucky, Herald Leader that her “heroes as priests are on the fringes... they need to challenge the government and the Vatican.”

One such “priest on the fringe” has challenged the government by, over the years, leading protests at the School of the Americas. But now, Maryknoll priest Fr. Roy Bourgeois has challenged the Vatican by concelebrating with Dana Reynolds and delivering the homily at Sevre-Duszynska’s ordination service. In doing so, Bourgeois has become the first Catholic cleric in good standing to participate publicly in an attempted ordination of a woman.

“MY wife and I have been regular contributors to Maryknoll over the years.”

WHY?!?! I suppose you want to help a Catholic order ‘in need’, but Maryknoll have been infested with liberation theology leftists and other unorthodox problematic people for decades.
The good news is that the Pope not only recognizes Liberation Theology as a heresy, he accurately assessed its errors.

http://www.knology.net/~bilrum/libtheo.htm

“Meanwhile, Liberation Theology is providing the Vatican with one of its greatest challenges ever. The undisputed proponents of Catholic Liberation Theology propaganda and activism in the United States are the Maryknoll, Paulist, and Jesuit orders.

Maryknoll, New York, is the international center of the Maryknoll Fathers and Sisters, many of whom have given their lives aiding communist terrorists in Central and Latin America.

In the United States, Maryknoll militancy is manifested in their media productions, including films glorifying the Sandinista regime in Nicaragua, and books published by Maryknoll’s Orbis Books. .... McGovern, a Jesuit professor at the University of Detroit, contends that much diversity exists among liberation advocates in regard to their commitment to Marxism. He does not, however, deny that they derive their insights from overtly Marxist critiques of society.”

Wake up and find a better use for your charity, please.

"On May 30, the Vatican issued a decree that said women who attempt ordination and those who attempt to ordain them are automatically excommunicated." Next case... Would this be the next case? St. Louis Review July 11, 2008 Sister Louise Lears, a member of the Sisters of Charity, was a member of the pastoral team at St. Cronan Parish in South St. Louis and a coordinator of religious education in the St. Louis Archdiocese. Just before being named the prefect of the Apostolic Signatura at the Vatican, Archbishop Raymond L. Burke placed an interdict on her (see official decree, Page 11). This question-answer explanation of the interdict was amended from a similar explanation on the archdiocese’s website. Why was the archbishop concerned about her actions? The archbishop was made aware that Sister Louise actively participated in the attempted female ordinations in St. Louis in November 2007 (see background on www.archstl.org in the news section). In the apostolic letter "Ordinatio Sacerdotalis," Pope John Paul II reaffirmed that the Catholic Church has no authority to confer priestly ordination on women. What is the most recent development? In January, Archbishop Burke privately issued to Sister Louise a summons and canonical admonition, a warning that someone is suspected of having committed a grave violation against Church teachings or law. It also informed her that she should stop violating the law and make amends and that she was in grave spiritual danger. The archbishop met with Sister Louise and informed her of his concerns. These concerns included her repeated public advocacy of the attempted ordination of women and the harmful spiritual impact her actions were having on others while serving as an employee of a parish in the archdiocese. Because Sister Louise had not acknowledged that her public actions have been contrary to Catholic teaching, which canon law requires her to do, the archbishop was obliged to issue the penalty of interdict. This means that Sister Louise Lears, SC, cannot have any ministerial part in the celebration of the Eucharist or in any other ceremonies of public worship, or receive any sacrament until she repents. Interdict is aimed at calling the persons away from sin and to reconciliation with Christ and His Church. What happens to her position at St. Cronan Parish and with the Archdiocese of St. Louis? She is relieved of her positions as a member of the parish’s pastoral team and as coordinator of religious education anywhere in the archdiocese. Why does the St. Louis Archdiocese have to make this public? Because the person who has committed the offense has continually and publicly rejected a teaching of the Catholic faith while serving as a member of the pastoral team of a parish in the archdiocese. To many people the penalty of interdict will seem harsh and divisive. An interdict is really an urgent call to reform one’s conduct in the future. It’s classified as a "medicinal" penalty by the Church because its main purpose is to bring about reform in the individual and a return to full Communion in the Church. Having certain actions punished by interdict demonstrates that certain actions are gravely wrong in themselves and cause deep harm both to their perpetrators and to others. What if a person supports female ordination? Does that mean that person will be placed under interdict? What a person holds privately is a matter of conscience, and conscience must be formed according to the truth as it is enunciated in the Church’s teaching. The penalty of interdict would only be imposed upon someone who, by a serious and external action, denied the truth that the Church cannot ordain a woman to the sacred priesthood. What is more, the penalty would only be imposed after a careful canonical process, in which the person accused is given ample opportunity to respond to the accusation and defend him/herself. When a person in a leadership position in the Church or a member of a religious order publicly writes and acts in a manner contrary to the Church’s teaching, it causes serious confusion about what the Church teaches and leads people into error about the same. In such a situation, the archbishop must intervene to make clear the Church’s teaching and to repair the harm caused.

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