Two Female Catholic Priests Conduct First Mass (coffee mugs down alert!)

Mystl ^ | December 1, 2007

[NYer]

Two Roman Catholic female priests who were recently ordained co-pastored their first mass Saturday night in the central west end.

Rose Marie Hudson and Elsie McGrath led the service at the first Unitarian church of St. Louis.

About one hundred people showed up.

The service was held in the church's Hope Chapel.

The pastor of the church says it was a fitting place for an event where hope and understanding were very much alive.

The Roman Catholic Church does not recognize the ordination of Hudson and McGrath that was conducted by an organization called Roman Catholic Women Priests.

[NYer]

(gag) Ping!

[wideawake]

In other news, wideawake's two pre-teen daughters took over governance of the entire planet yesterday following wideawake's designation of them as "Co-Empresses Of The World."

If one would like to receive a title of nobility from the co-empresses, FReep mail me.

[trimom]

It’s all make believe. These women aren’t priests, they didn’t celebrate a Mass and they aren’t Catholic.

[ladtx]

Another chapter in the Do What Makes You Feel Good Church is written. Children playing church.

[Antoninus]

Two Roman Catholic female priests who were recently ordained co-pastored their first mass Saturday night in the central west end.

There are so many things wrong with this sentence, I wouldn't know where to start parsing it.

The truly outrageous thing is that this was reported on a Faux News affiliate.

[xsmommy]

Catholic priests don’t say Mass in UNITARIAN churches.

[USArmySpouse]

I do not understand WHY news organizations insist on calling these people Catholic when they clearly are NOT.

UGH!!! So frustrating!!

[AliVeritas]

Done.

Catholic Center
4445 Lindell Boulevard
St. Louis, MO 63108
Phone: 314.633.2222

Cardinal Rigali Center
20 Archbishop May Drive
St. Louis, MO 63119
Phone: 314.792.7000

Email form:
http://www.archstl.org/index.php?option=com_philaform&Itemid=149&form_id=1

[NYer]

Coooooool!!!

[Campion]

Two Roman Catholic female priests who were recently ordained co-pastored their first mass

Four errors, and it's not even a complete sentence! They aren't Roman Catholic, they aren't priests, they weren't ordained, and two priests "concelebrate" Mass they don't "co-pastor" it. (Of course, since they aren't priests, maybe "co-pastor" is the best they can do ... hmm?)

[Antoninus]

Send a response to the Fox affiliate who ran this idiotic article:

Contact Fox St. Louis

Here's my response:

Dear Fox,

Thanks for running your article on the so-called Catholic priestesses. I wanted you to know that I've recently been elected Pope under the regnal title "Pope Ace Ventura XIV" and I would invite you to attend my installation at the "Bro's Step In Lounge" at the corner of 24th and Main.

Hey, why not? My election as pope has exactly as much validity as the so-called ordination of these priestesses. It would be grossly unfair of you to cover their fantasy antics while ignoring mine.

Sincerely,

Pope Ace XIV

[Ransomed]

What gets me is the lack of the word “priestess”. Seems like a good word to me, but it’s always “female priest” this and “woman priest” that...

Freegards

[Military family member]

I want to be Duke of Earl

[Clint N. Suhks]

What would you call mine?

A Rectorette?

[Salvation]

They are not priests or Catholics, and have, by this action, excommunicated themselves.

[Ransomed]

Hmmmmm....”Rectorix”?

Freegards

[Deo volente]

Two Female Catholic Priests Conduct First Mass


The only truth in that title is "Two Female(s)", and even that is questionable.

[Petronski]

Two Roman Catholic female priests . . .

No such thing.

. . . who were recently ordained . . .

Never happened.

[FloreatIacobus]

The pastor of the church says it was a fitting place for an event where hope and understanding were very much alive.

Well, that's the most accurate statements in the whole article - a Unitarian chapel is far more fitting for this event than a Catholic church because there was nothing at all Catholic about it, just like there's nothing at all Catholic about these ladies.

[LottieDah]

It boggles the mind how some women are dying to become priests yet shun becoming nuns.

[ArrogantBustard]

Rose Marie Hudson and Elsie McGrath

[N3WBI3]

And by Catholic they mean the universal Catholic church of Me First....

I’m not Catholic but I gotta feel for the frustration having people who have been booted from your church claim now to be priest/ministers/pastors is infuriating..

[polymuser]

I do not understand WHY news organizations insist on calling these people Catholic when they clearly are NOT.

Really? It's because mainstream news organizations have a specifically anti-Christian agenda.

[ArrogantBustard]

Please ask them to appoint me Lord Mayor of Atlantis, and Governor of their Planetary Majesties’ Undersea Realms.

[NYer]

Great letter! If you get a response, please ping me.

[tioga]

Pope Ace XIV - has a certain ring to it. I like it.

[NYer]

It’s all about power. They are victims of the feminist movement. When my daughter made her Confirmation, the Bishop asked several of the girls if they wanted to be priests when they grew up (he is left wing liberal). Comments such as that simply fuel the fire of desire.

[Antoninus]

When my daughter made her Confirmation, the Bishop asked several of the girls if they wanted to be priests when they grew up (he is left wing liberal). Comments such as that simply fuel the fire of desire.

That's unbelievably awful. Whoever takes over his diocese will have a big fumigation bill.

[marshmallow]

Rose Marie Hudson and Elsie McGrath led the service at the first Unitarian church of St. Louis.

Excuse me!

That should be Father Rose Marie Hudson!

Seriously, have these loons come to grips with the issue of their "official" titles? Father? Mother? Sister? Rosie baby?

The Unitarian Church is where they're gonna end up anyways.

[Gamecock]

The birth of another Catholic denomination!

[Pyro7480]

You got all but one word correct: The birth of another Protestant denomination!

[Alex Murphy]

coffee mugs down alert!

[11th Commandment]

Dear Pope Ace XIV

As duly Elected President of the Lutheran United World Wide faith, let's unite the Churches. We'll go for the Pope thing, but we gotta stayed married. Also, the smelly candles have to go... Deal?

[Gamecock]

BWAHHHAAA!!!

We don’t want them.

Besides, you’ve had a woman Pope!

[Pyro7480]

You believe the Pope Joan nonsense??

[ArrogantBustard]

We don’t want them.

Don't blame you. We don't want them, either.

AND ... We formally excommunicated them. Informally, too.

So they're not ours.

And they are protesting us.

That makes them ...

uhhhhhhh ...

Oh, yes. It makes them protestants.

My condolences.

[Gamecock]

I find it one of the easier things to believe about Rome.

[Antoninus]

That makes them ... uhhhhhhh ... Oh, yes. It makes them protestants.

Ouch!

[Pyro7480]

You’re either pulling our legs or really gullible.

[Gamecock]

Nope. I checked with the home office. They are yours.

[Campion]

I find it one of the easier things falsehoods I'm required to believe about Rome.

Fixed it for you.

[Campion]

I checked with the home office.

Which one?

[Proud2BeRight]

As a WASP male who really doesn’t know why; what is wrong with women priests? I have seen women pastors in chuches and they can be terrific.

[Gene Eric]

Amen Popus Antoninus !

[MarkBsnr]

It’d also be terrific to have a medium rare porterhouse steak on Good Friday. Doesn’t make it right, though.

[Gamecock]

Which one?

This one.

[Aquinasfan]

• Ten people claim to be pope, yet there is only one real pope.

• Some women claim to be Catholic priests. Yet they are not real priests, nor are they even Catholic.

File these under concepts too difficult for the media to comprehend.

[Campion]

The worldeater 404? [urp!]

[Aquinasfan]

I wanted you to know that I've recently been elected Pope under the regnal title "Pope Ace Ventura XIV" and I would invite you to attend my installation at the "Bro's Step In Lounge" at the corner of 24th and Main.

Perfect response.