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Woman Intends to be Kansas City’s First Female Catholic Priest
The Kansas City Star ^ | 12/25/14 | Matt Campbell

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 ...


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To: marshmallow

That looks like Buddy Hackett trying to shoplift a couple of bowling balls.


41 posted on 12/26/2014 3:51:33 PM PST by Argus
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To: marshmallow

My kids call me Wonder Woman; therefore, I demand her figure!


42 posted on 12/26/2014 3:54:31 PM PST by goodwithagun (My gun has killed fewer people than Ted Kennedy's car.)
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To: Radagast the Fool

“That’s funny right there, I don’t care who you are”.


43 posted on 12/26/2014 4:01:16 PM PST by defconw (If not now, WHEN?)
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To: marshmallow

In a world of make-believe you can be anybody or anything.


44 posted on 12/26/2014 4:02:20 PM PST by windsorknot
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To: piusv
By a female bishop....duh...

And I wonder where this meretricious "Catholic" priestess will celebrate her first "Mass"?

45 posted on 12/26/2014 4:10:59 PM PST by COBOL2Java (I'm a Christian, pro-life, pro-gun, Reaganite. The GOP hates me. Why should I vote for them?)
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To: defconw
Damn it! You did warn me, but I haaaaaaaaaaaaad to look! Now I need to wash out my eyes!

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. 😄

46 posted on 12/26/2014 4:14:38 PM PST by Mark17 (So gracious and tender was He. I claimed Him that day as my savior, this stranger of Galilee)
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To: marshmallow

I see the proofreader left the word “delusion” out of the lede.


47 posted on 12/26/2014 4:16:49 PM PST by lastchance (Credo.)
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To: marshmallow
Will she call herself "Father Georgia"?


48 posted on 12/26/2014 4:17:51 PM PST by Heart-Rest ("Our hearts are restless, Lord, until they rest in Thee." - St. Augustine)
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To: marshmallow

Straight out of the left/liberal playbook.

They create their own reality.


49 posted on 12/26/2014 4:18:14 PM PST by headstamp 2
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To: Petrosius
In a few days Georgia Walker, at age 67, intends to become a priest…

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.

50 posted on 12/26/2014 4:26:39 PM PST by COBOL2Java (I'm a Christian, pro-life, pro-gun, Reaganite. The GOP hates me. Why should I vote for them?)
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To: marshmallow

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.


51 posted on 12/26/2014 4:29:52 PM PST by Pollster1 ("Shall not be infringed" is unambiguous.)
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To: marshmallow
it can call itself a Ford Thunderbird, that don't make it so...
52 posted on 12/26/2014 4:29:59 PM PST by Chode (Stand UP and Be Counted, or line up and be numbered - *DTOM* -w- NO Pity for the LAZY - 86-44)
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To: Roman_War_Criminal

Pope Francis said “That door is closed.”


53 posted on 12/26/2014 4:33:28 PM PST by rwa265
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To: marshmallow
“I don’t accept the legitimacy of that excommunication,” said Walker

Translation ... I don't accept the traditions and teachings of the Catholic Church.

54 posted on 12/26/2014 4:47:43 PM PST by al_c (Obama's standing in the world has fallen so much that Kenya now claims he was born in America.)
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To: wideawake

The Catholic church would push it down the hill instead of bringing that within the walls.


55 posted on 12/26/2014 4:55:14 PM PST by GeronL (Vote for Conservatives not for Republicans)
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To: marshmallow

You got me.
I looked, and I was right.
LOL.


56 posted on 12/26/2014 4:58:23 PM PST by onyx (Please Support Free Republic - Donate Monthly! If you want on Sarah Palin's Ping List, Let Me know!)
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To: marshmallow

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.


57 posted on 12/26/2014 4:58:26 PM PST by Bigg Red (Congress, do your duty and repo his pen and his phone.)
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To: Bigg Red

I intend to be the Emperor of China. Will that make it so?


58 posted on 12/26/2014 5:02:27 PM PST by Petrosius
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To: xrmusn

Sorry you had such a bad experience upon your attempt to return to the Church. Perhaps you need to attend a different parish?


59 posted on 12/26/2014 5:03:58 PM PST by Bigg Red (Congress, do your duty and repo his pen and his phone.)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

I am a lady. That female is no lady!


60 posted on 12/26/2014 5:04:49 PM PST by Bigg Red (Congress, do your duty and repo his pen and his phone.)
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