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Excommunicated Priest To Appeal to New Pope
Creative Minority Report ^ | April 18, 2013 | Matthew Archbold

Posted on 04/18/2013 7:04:40 PM PDT by NYer

Roy Bourgeois is becoming the Pete Rose of Catholicism.

He got booted for bad behavior and now he's trying everything he can to weasel his way back in.

Bourgeois, you might recall, is the priest who was excommunicated for his public approval of the ordination of women and was subsequently stripped of his priestly duties. Not only did he publicly approve of female ordination, he reportedly took part in one such ceremony. And he's reportedly "working with an attorney" to appeal his status because he's thinking that Pope Francis might be a little more amenable to his point of view on things a bit more than Pope Benedict XVI was.

AJC reports:

With the election of new Pope Francis, Bourgeois said Friday he is working with an attorney to appeal the decision that expelled him from being a Catholic priest for the next 40 years.

“He signed the order in November and we are appealing it right now,” Bourgeois said of Benedict. “We hope the new pope will be more open to women in the church.”

Bourgeois, 74, said he was stripped of his position after he publicly supported the ordination of women priests. While actions were considered against him, Bourgeois said he was asked to recant his support and remain silent on women ordination, but he refused...

Bourgeois said he’s never met the new pope, Jorge Mario Bergoglio...

“I’m feeling better about this pope,” he said. “I’m feeling humble. He is much closer to the poor and he is calling for simplicity. I’m cautiously optimistic.”
Bourgeois has certainly been busy. Besides lawyering up, he spoke at a Call to Action conference earlier this year, he was in East Lansing last night to show a movie entitled "Pink Smoke in the Vatican," and next month he'll be in New York City along with Code Pink founder Medea Benjamin to push for female ordination as well as other issues at a number of different locations.

So you see, what he really wants is for the Catholic Church to change, not him.


TOPICS: Catholic; Ministry/Outreach; Moral Issues
KEYWORDS: bourgeois

1 posted on 04/18/2013 7:04:40 PM PDT by NYer
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To: netmilsmom; thefrankbaum; Tax-chick; GregB; saradippity; Berlin_Freeper; Litany; SumProVita; ...

Ping!


2 posted on 04/18/2013 7:05:04 PM PDT by NYer (Beware the man of a single book - St. Thomas Aquinas)
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“Excommunicated Priest to appeal to new Pope.”

No, I don’t think he’s the Pope’s type!


3 posted on 04/18/2013 7:08:14 PM PDT by Mastador1 (I'll take a bad dog over a good politician any day!)
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You’re bad—LOL!


4 posted on 04/18/2013 7:14:54 PM PDT by basil (basil, 2ASisters.org)
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ME? I’m not the one who got excommunicated, yet.


5 posted on 04/18/2013 7:21:56 PM PDT by Mastador1 (I'll take a bad dog over a good politician any day!)
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To: NYer

I don’t beieve he will get a very good reception from Pope Francis.

I sure hope he doesn’t

I wonder what kind of lawyer knows enough theology to deem to act as an attorney for a defrocked priest. Is this a Clergical lawyer?


6 posted on 04/18/2013 7:28:13 PM PDT by Venturer
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To: NYer
Roy Bourgeois is becoming the Pete Rose of Catholicism.

No. Rose had a long, successful career, tallying up more base hits than any other ball player ever. Roy would not even make the top 90%.

He's more like the Joe Shlabotnik of the priesthood, but with a less loyal following.
7 posted on 04/18/2013 7:32:33 PM PDT by Dr. Sivana (HRC:"Sometimes she looks like a primary schoolgirl and sometimes a pensioner going shopping,"-NKorea)
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Bourgeois is a marxist supporter of “Liberation Theology” and has been for many decades, esp. regarding El Salvador and Nicaragua where he supported the communist FLMN and the FLSN (Sandinistas).

His record of affiliation with communist front groups in the US is very long, Check out the sites www.DiscoverTheNetwork.com and www.keywiki.org for details on his past.

He makes the Berrigans look like saints, and they were hardcore marxists too.


8 posted on 04/18/2013 7:52:12 PM PDT by MadMax, the Grinning Reaper
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"With the election of new Pope Francis, Bourgeois said Friday he is working with an attorney to appeal the decision that expelled him from being a Catholic priest for the next 40 years.

...Bourgeois, 74, said ..."

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Well, I say they should probably at least reconsider it in 40 years when he turns 114...

(But, seriously, this guy sounds like he may be struggling with Alzheimers or some form of dementia already, at age 74. Both he and Sister Keehan would both probably feel a lot more comfortable in some liberal, phony church, though it wouldn't be good for them.)

9 posted on 04/18/2013 10:02:55 PM PDT by Heart-Rest ("God is Love" 1 John 4:8)
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Idiot.

My dad always says, "You're in trouble when you start believing your own press releases."

This guy is sitting in a heterodox, ultra-radical echo chamber where they have all been telling each other that Pope Francis just luuuuurrrvs "the poor", so he must be "one of us," unlike those evil patriarchal judgmental members of the hierarchy who DON'T love "the poor".

This Pope is the real deal -- he loves the poor (of spirit not just in worldly goods) AND he also loves Christ and His Church.

Bourgeois is not going to get what he expects, and he will no doubt be shocked and stunned.

10 posted on 04/19/2013 7:28:45 AM PDT by AnAmericanMother (Ministrix of ye Chasse, TTGS Ladies' Auxiliary (recess appointment))
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No hope
for this dope
just say nope
Dear Pope


11 posted on 04/19/2013 11:04:32 AM PDT by Ouchthatonehurt ("When you're going through hell, keep going." - Sir Winston Churchill)
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Bourgeois said he’s never met the new pope, Jorge Mario Bergoglio...
“I’m feeling better about this pope,” he said. “I’m feeling humble. He is much closer to the poor and he is calling for simplicity. I’m cautiously optimistic.”

He's making the same mistake the liberal nuns made. He's confusing the Pope's humility for doctrinal weakness.

12 posted on 04/20/2013 11:15:03 AM PDT by SuziQ
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