Posted on 07/06/2005 5:58:23 AM PDT by NYer
LYON, France, July 5, 2005 (LifeSiteNews.com) - A French Cardinal has excommunicated a Catholic woman claiming she was "ordained" as a priest by three women who call themselves Roman Catholic bishops. For those supposing the next generation of church leaders will turn the church even more politically correct, the action by one of the Church's youngest Cardinals will come as a shocker. Lyon's Cardinal Archbishop Philippe Barbarin, 55, has followed in the footsteps of Pope Benedict XVI. Cardinal Barbarin excommunicated the woman who went through a false 'ordination' yesterday. Pope Benedict XVI, acting in 2002 as Cardinal Ratzinger, officially excommunicated two of the women "bishops" who performed the ceremony.
Genevieve Beney, a 56-year-old married physical education teacher and mother of two, was "ordained" Saturday on a boat on the Saone River near the eastern French city, by self-proclaimed "bishops" from the dissident movement Women's Ordination Worldwide as 60 activists who support female ordination looked on.
"This is not a rupture with the Roman Catholic Church," Beney claimed before the ceremony. "If there is a rupture on my part, it is with a situation that I consider to be obsolete and unjust to women."
"This act . . . does not fulfil any of the conditions required by the Catholic Church, and such a ceremony unequivocally constitutes a serious act of rupture with the Catholic Church," Lyon's Cardinal Barbarin corrected in a statement, according to a Reuters report. "There will be no truth to the words that will be pronounced," Barbarin said before the ceremony. "For many Catholics, this will be a source of useless injury and suffering."
Nine women activists, eight American and one Canadian, have announced that on July 25 they will conduct their own "ordination" ceremony on a boat on the St. Lawrence River. When LifeSiteNews.com contacted the Canadian Conference of Catholic Bishops about the impending "ordination" of the Canadian woman later this month, a spokesman there, unlike Cardinal Barbarin, said the CCCB had "no comment" and no plans in place, at least that the CCCB was willing to disclose, as to how they would respond to such an event.
See related LifeSiteNews.com coverage:
Nine Women Activists Fantasize they will Ordain themselves in "International Waters" of the St. Lawrence
http://www.lifesite.net/ldn/2005/jun/05060911.html
Read the response of the Vatican to the "Danube Seven"
http://www.ourladyswarriors.org/dissent/cdfprieste...
I wonder what the age of the cardinal has to do with it? No reason for that to be in the headline. He is 55? That is not unusually young. Pope Benedict was in his early 50s when he was made a cardinal. Pope John Paul was an archbishop when he was in his 40s.
You are right on the money.
Their target is exactly the Roman Catholic Church because it represents such a strong force of male priesthood. The Church COUNTS. There are over a billion Catholics. The Church of England/Epicopalians are small potatoes.
They are attacking dad, the strong male force in the family. As leftist feminists, they are attacking men. They hate adult male authority, from dad, to men and even to the roots of their religion. Jesus WAS a man who chose 12 other MEN to follow him. They can't stand the entire male species. They can't hate Jesus, so they vent their spleen where they can.
It stems from deep hatred of themselves. They are sad, pathetic women who never learned to appreciate their own gender.
My own female 2 cents.
"I wish they would be as strict on people receiving the Holy Eucharist."
From April 4, 2004 thread:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1113221/posts
"Adding to the fray in February, St. Louis Archbishop Raymond Burke forbade Kerry from taking communion while campaigning in the area due to Kerry's stance on abortion and possibly stem cell research."
I hate to see women who could spend all that energy in a positive way -- raising a family, working in their community, even becoming a sister or lay member of an order -- ruining their lives and everybody around them too by giving in to such hatred of half the human race.
Shoot, I LIKE men -- I married one! < g >
"I wish they would be as strict on people receiving the Holy Eucharist."
From April 4, 2004 thread:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1113221/posts
"Adding to the fray in February, St. Louis Archbishop Raymond Burke forbade Kerry from taking communion while campaigning in the area due to Kerry's stance on abortion and possibly stem cell research."
Question: How does one recognize who Peter is speaking about in Acts 2:17?
From Joel 2:28-31
17 'And it shall come to pass in the last days' saith God, "I will pour out of My Spirit upon all flesh: and your sons and your daughters shall prophesy, and your young men shall see visions, and your old men shall dream dreams:
18 And on My servants and on MY handmaidens I will pour out in those days of My Spirit; and they shall prophesy:
Oops, sorry for the double post.
But the bishops, apparently, are okay with pedophiles?
As it should be. If she wants to head up a church, she could move over to C of C.
Lets hope other Bishops follow his lead.
Are you sure? Seems to me the RCC has pussyfooted around with politicians for some time, e.g. Teddy Kennedy, John Kerry.
Sounds like the archbishop of St Louis has done the right thing. Meanwhile here the pro abort US rep is welcomed with open arms by Catholic organizations. She is a "lapsed Catholic" so denying her communion is not an issue. But some of these "church ladies" who are very devout look the other way when it comes to the abortion issue, sad to say.
"But the bishops, apparently, are okay with pedophiles?"
That's just mean, dog. The bishops are not okay with pedophiles. They made terrible mistakes in the way they handled it, but they were never okay with it.
Cardinal Archbishop Philippe Barbarin REALLY young cardinal.
Perhaps the next pope. Whodda thunk such a man would come from secular France?
But, then the PanzerPope is from secular Germany.
for Benedict XVI!
Exactly what I was thinking - but that Cardinal is no lib!
I wouldn't know. I tried to look up "new testament christian priests" on the Internet and couldn't find their doctrine. There are lots and lots of churches with the word "Christian" in their names listed, with lots and lots of varied doctrines begun by people like her who started their own religions because they didn't like the previous one.
Did you try looking up the New Testiment Priesthood in the bible? It's right there by the pope stuff. {snicker}
(I don't get it. What's the purpose of doing such things and claiming that it was done in Catholic Church? There are so many protestant churches where women can be priests. They if they really want to be priests they can do it there.)
The whole point of the act is to try to destroy the Catholic Church. Otherwise she would have done what you suggested.
People naturally follow strength and shun weakness. If more of our bishops were strong in the Faith, we'd be in a much better place right now.
I am not trying to bash RCs, but it seems unreasonable that some of the age-old differences that separate the Roman church with the Eastern Rite churches and those of high Episcopal tradition (w/the obvious exception of the gay Bishop V. Gene Robinson of N.H.) can be bridged--namely allowance of married priests (with celibacy consigned to the monastic orders).
On the issue of women clergy; well, it is hard to justify the fact that in convents the Rev. Mother Superior has similiar duites as a parish priest in that she can hear confession (sacriment), administer the Eucharist (that has been santified by a priest), etc. Admittedly, she can not preform marriages; however emergency baptism and other sacriments are allowed...so, the question is why is Rome so recalcitrant on this touchy issue? (Also, consider the fact that the first person that Christ revealed Himself to when He arose from the dead was a woman; and, also, isn't the Blessed Virgin also a woman?
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