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 doesnt faze her.
I dont 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.
Thats 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 ...
That looks like Buddy Hackett trying to shoplift a couple of bowling balls.
My kids call me Wonder Woman; therefore, I demand her figure!
“That’s funny right there, I don’t care who you are”.
In a world of make-believe you can be anybody or anything.
And I wonder where this meretricious "Catholic" priestess will celebrate her first "Mass"?
LOL, well, in defense of her, and only in slight defense of her. She probably looked a lot different 45 years ago, or at least I think she did. 😄
I see the proofreader left the word “delusion” out of the lede.
Straight out of the left/liberal playbook.
They create their own reality.
Isn't that an interesting turn of phrase? She "intends" to become a priest. In the papers I always read about how an upcoming candidate for ordination, "by the grace of God, will be ordained" on such and such a date, by bishop so-and-so, to the priesthood. Yes this woman has the audacity to declare that she "intends" to be ordained, as if it's an honorific that she bestows upon herself, due to her having attained it.
I’d like to become a Rabbi, except that I am not Jewish. It looks like her goal of becoming a priest has a similar issue. If she doesn’t accept the Pope’s authority, then she’s not a Catholic. She may like stained glass and reading pretty stories from the Bible, but that’s not enough to be a Catholic priest.
Pope Francis said “That door is closed.”
Translation ... I don't accept the traditions and teachings of the Catholic Church.
The Catholic church would push it down the hill instead of bringing that within the walls.
You got me.
I looked, and I was right.
LOL.
Someone needs to tell they idiot who wrote this that this daft woman will not be a priest. She may call herself a priest, but she will not be one.
I intend to be the Emperor of China. Will that make it so?
Sorry you had such a bad experience upon your attempt to return to the Church. Perhaps you need to attend a different parish?
I am a lady. That female is no lady!
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