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‘What the church needs to be’ -- Women defy the Catholic hierarchy to become priests
Chicago Tribune ^ | October 18, 2026 | Jonathan Bullington

Posted on 10/18/2026 6:45:59 AM PDT by Salman

ST. LOUIS — The entire day had been building to this moment. First there was the procession, then the readings and songs and the sponsors who explained why they felt she was ready for what was to come.

She prostrated before the altar inside the old church, her chest heaving with emotion as the Litany of the Saints was said. She sat in a folding chair, tears trickling down her cheeks, while each person in the pews came forward to place their hands on her head in a quiet blessing.

And as the noon hour arrived and Anna Girresch — Annie to those who know her — held out her hands to be anointed with oil, it felt like all 70-plus people in attendance collectively held their breaths as the ritual neared its culmination.

It came seconds later, when a bishop raised Annie’s right hand toward the ceiling and, “with great joy,” introduced her as a newly ordained Catholic priest.

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OK I understand these are not valid Roman Catholic ordinations, but what will happen to the bishop that performed this ceremony?
1 posted on 10/18/2026 6:45:59 AM PDT by Salman
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To: Salman

There no women priests in the Catholic Church. Any bishop who tries to consecrate any female would be excommunicated and have his faculties taken.


2 posted on 10/18/2026 6:59:53 AM PDT by jmaroneps37 (Freedom is never free. It must be won rewon and jealously guarded.)
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To: Salman

There no women priests in the Catholic Church. Any bishop who tries to consecrate any female would be excommunicated and have his faculties taken.


3 posted on 10/18/2026 6:59:55 AM PDT by jmaroneps37 (Freedom is never free. It must be won rewon and jealously guarded.)
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To: Salman

Did they name the bishop? Did they say he is a Roman Catholic bishop?


4 posted on 10/18/2026 7:09:01 AM PDT by heartwood
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To: jmaroneps37; salmon

These women “priests” are as legit as a $3 bill, or me running around saying I am King Charles.

Jesus had plenty of opportunity to make women Apostles. He didn’t.

Deal.


5 posted on 10/18/2026 7:09:49 AM PDT by DoodleBob (Gravity's waiting period is about 9.8 m/s²)
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OK I understand these are not valid Roman Catholic ordinations, but what will happen to the bishop that performed this ceremony?

The "bishop" was also a woman, so invalidly ordained and consecrated. So the whole thing is invalid from top to bottom. And a farce.

As an aside, this ignorantly written article includes lots of pictures of these so-called "priests" and their supporters. Never have I seen such a butt-load of ugly women and wimpy looking men.

6 posted on 10/18/2026 7:16:05 AM PDT by fidelis (Ecce Crucem Domini! Fugite partes adversae! Vicit Leo de tribu Juda, Radix David! Alleluia!)
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The feminization of the Church has been the problem. I highly doubt we’d have so many “LGBT friendly” Churches if women weren’t in leadership.


7 posted on 10/18/2026 7:16:55 AM PDT by fuzzylogic (welfare state = sharing of poor moral choices among everybody)
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To: DoodleBob

As a woman and a long-life Catholic no women priests!!!!!


8 posted on 10/18/2026 7:17:25 AM PDT by notaliberal ((St. Michael the Archangel, defend us in battle.))
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To: Salman
United Church of Christ cosplay. This time.

As to the "bishop," one finds "In 2014, Mary was ordained a priest by Bishop Joan Houk of the Roman Catholic Womenpriest reform movement."

So nothing in the lineage goes back to an actual Roman Catholic bishop or an original Roman Catholic bishop. Just cosplay after cosplay, now in a couple of iterations.

Saying something many times is not proof of something being correct, actual or true.

There have been a number of "reform movements." Protestant denominations are the many iterations of said reform.

9 posted on 10/18/2026 7:50:39 AM PDT by Worldtraveler once upon a time (Degrow government)
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Pagans had/have priestesses.

Lutherans who ordained pastoresses had to become their own denomination (ELCA), in accordance with II Corinthians 6:17, so that those who follow Christ can be separate from them.

OTOH, the Catholic church, to misquote Hammer, is too legit to split. Since the hierarchy is more concerned with ending the Latin mass than removing heresy, the infestation will continue.


10 posted on 10/18/2026 7:56:14 AM PDT by chajin ("There is no other name under heaven given among people by which we must be saved." Acts 4:12)
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To: Worldtraveler once upon a time
So liberal ("mainline") Protestants "identifying" as Roman Catholic.

Sheesh.

11 posted on 10/18/2026 7:58:31 AM PDT by Salman (It's not a slippery slope if it was part of the program all along.)
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The picture with the article shows a female "priest" with blue hair. Unfortunately, the paywall clicked on before I could capture the link. I got a link from a similar article which gives you an idea of what we are in store for with women priests. But then again, anyone who has seen the insufferable, sanctimonious Liberation Theology activist nuns who somehow made their way into the Church already knows what is coming.

12 posted on 10/18/2026 7:59:16 AM PDT by Opinionated Blowhard (When the people find that they can vote themselves money, that will herald the end of the republic.)
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The picture with the article shows a female "priest" with blue hair. ...

I'm guessing that one may be genetically male, if not a valid priest.

13 posted on 10/18/2026 8:01:16 AM PDT by Salman (It's not a slippery slope if it was part of the program all along.)
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Sacrilege is their choice. Hell is their result.


14 posted on 10/18/2026 8:01:18 AM PDT by anton
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The Catholic hierarchy is chock full of homosexuals. It’ll make room for the dykes soon enough.


15 posted on 10/18/2026 8:01:24 AM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is opinion or satire. Or both.)
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To: Salman

Purple hair. Perfect.


16 posted on 10/18/2026 8:03:32 AM PDT by mikey_hates_everything
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To: Salman

Can you say, “reformation”. Sounds like they are starting their own. Happens from time to time.


17 posted on 10/18/2026 8:06:35 AM PDT by jimfree (My 23 y/o granddaughter has more quality exec experience than most Dem pres candidates.)
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There’s a name for female Catholic priests: Episcopalians. Lesbian bishops and priests gutted the Episcopalian and wear it as a skin suit.


18 posted on 10/18/2026 8:10:19 AM PDT by DeplorablePaul
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From the church of “what’s happin’nin now”


19 posted on 10/18/2026 8:25:26 AM PDT by skinny old man
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To: Salman
The title of an unhappy play came to mind while reading this pabulum. Pirandello wrote a play titled -- Italian to English -- "Right You Are—If You Think You Are." ( about 1917 ). Later about this play which is about exactly what it sounds like in "absurdist" terms, he wrote of his work:

" think that life is a very sad piece of buffoonery; because we have in ourselves, without being able to know why, wherefore or whence, the need to deceive ourselves constantly by creating a reality (one for each and never the same for all), which from time to time is discovered to be vain and illusory . . . My art is full of bitter compassion for all those who deceive themselves; but this compassion cannot fail to be followed by the ferocious derision of destiny which condemns man to deception."

These females now over a couple of iterations of fakery in a "laying on of hands" are that deception to which they themselves make condemnation -- proudly. Were you to look further into them, you would find that their "congregations" are few and far between, numbered in the tens, as they beg for donations. Their success may be measured by their failure to prosper.

A very sad and delusional piece of buffoonery....

20 posted on 10/18/2026 8:34:59 AM PDT by Worldtraveler once upon a time (Degrow government)
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