Posted on 12/26/2014 3:21:42 PM PST by marshmallow
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.
At other stages of her life, Walker has been a sociology professor at the University of Missouri, a financial officer and a hospital manager. In midlife she converted to Catholicism and became a Sister of St. Joseph, although she did not take final vows. She is working on a graduate degree in theology.
Walker also is a peace activist who has been convicted of trespassing at the Bannister Federal Complex in south Kansas City and at Whiteman Air Force Base near Knob Noster, Mo.
She now works with men and women coming out of prison to help them reintegrate with society.
As a priest, Walker wants to establish a regular schedule to visit prisons in the Diocese of Kansas City-St. Joseph to bring the sacrament to inmates. She also wants to build a small community of worshipers while remaining a member of St. James Parish in Kansas City.
The church says no.
(Excerpt) Read more at kansascity.com ...
She might have better luck if she gets the operation.
You warned me ... ack!!!!
Who would ordain her?
Aarrrgggg. She will NOT be a priest!
This is like when the media kept telling us a man had a baby.
In this case of Roman Catholic this, and Roman Catholic that, there aren’t actually any Roman Catholics involved to make this a Roman Catholic fact, so this story is just fantasy.
“”The Diocese of Kansas City-St. Joseph issued this statement: “Since this ‘ordination’ does not involve the participation of any validly ordained Catholic clergy, the diocese does not see a reason to comment any further.”””
A shrink? She needs psychiatric help.
Related to Helen Thomas?
The Diocese of Kansas City-St. Joseph issued this statement: “Since this ‘ordination’ does not involve the participation of any validly ordained Catholic clergy, the diocese does not see a reason to comment any further.” Walker said the diocese explicitly warned her she would be excommunicated if she continued with her plan. She said she was not dissuaded. Walker’s ordination, scheduled for Jan. 3, will be performed by Bishop Bridget Mary Meehan, who travels the country ordaining women priests and deacons — 25 of them in 2014.
She should just make herself into the first lesbian pope.
That’s not Michael Moore sporting his new salt’n pepper Christmas Toupee?
GUILTY!
I think this weekend I’ll become the Emperor of Iowa. I don’t recognize the right of Iowans to tell me I’m not.
Absolutely guilty!!
I wish her good luck with that. /s (for crying out loud)!
Damn it! You did warn me, but I haaaaaaaaaaaaad to look! Now I need to wash out my eyes!
Pitiful that the KCRedStar givers her a stage for her phony quest.
A “convert” whose actual goal is to be a Trojan horse.
Aaaaaaarrrrrrrrggggggggggggghhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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