Posted on 05/05/2007 2:26:39 PM PDT by NYer
- A Sudbury woman will take her struggle for what she calls equality for women in the Catholic Church to a new level May 27.
Marie Bouclin says she will be one of three women who will be ordained Roman Catholic priests in Toronto in a ceremony that will not be recognized by the church.
"My gesture is a justice issue. I am passionate about my faith and I want it to survive," Bouclin said. "I see a wide gap between the teachings of the Gospel and the legalism of the current church leadership. I want to help renew the church from within."
Bishop Patricia Fresen from Germany will ordain Bouclin and the others, who are from the United States.
"I am doing this because the Roman Catholic Church needs priests and the Vatican thinks it is more important to have only unmarried men - rather than fulfilling its pastoral needs," Bouclin said.
She said the Eucharist (receiving communion) is the most important aspect of church life. However, "we are losing the Eucharist for lack of priests."
Bouclin said she hopes her ordination will send a message that God calls men and women from all states of life to minister to people.
"I want to reach the people where they are at on their faith journey."
Bouclin said she also believes the image of women at the altar may help end violence against women.
"I hope it will also send a message that oppression and discrimination against women is not the will of God."
Bishop Jean-Louis Plouffe, bishop of the Diocese of Sault Ste. Marie, said he respects Bouclin's passion for her faith.
But he said ordaining women breaks from church teachings.
"I know Marie and have known her to be involved in her parish and it is difficult for me to understand why she would exclude herself from the church," Plouffe said.
"I cannot consider this as a valid ordination since it goes against the teachings of the church, which is that only lay men can be ordained."
The May 27 event is the first ordination ceremony of the Roman Catholic Womenpriests movement in Canada to take place on land and in a church. Officials with Roman Catholic Womenpriests would not say exactly where the ceremony will be held.
Its previous public ceremonies have taken place on boats, usually in international waters, to avoid jurisdictional conflict with diocesan bishops.
Also, for the first time, a married man will be ordained in a public ceremony by the movement.
"The movement is making history in the Roman Catholic Church," said Francois Brassard, a media representative for the Roman Catholic Womenpriests movement in Canada.
Brassard said the group started in 2002 and since then, 14 women priests in the United States and one in Canada have been ordained and more are on the way.
"There are over 100 candidates in training worldwide," he said.
During the Toronto ceremony, two women from Canada and one from the United States will be ordained deacons, in addition to the three female priests. Brassard said none of the women will seek a parish. "We do not want to cause conflict with members of the hierarchy; therefore, they will minister in another way - by going to the people instead of having the people come to them," he said.
The left had such great success in taking over so many other institutions inthe free world that it's setting it's sights on the biggie.
Obviously it intends the impeachment of God and the overthrow of Heaven itself.
Book Description
While sexual abuse of minors by clergy in the Catholic Church has received extensive news coverage, less attention has focused on adult women betrayed and sexually abused by priests. Seeking Wholeness shares the stories of women who have been abused and how the abuse has affected their lives. Marie Bouclin not only records their accounts, but provides a model of spirituality and social support aimed at promoting their physical and emotional healing.
As Bouclin recounts, even women therapists, spiritual counselors, and pastoral personnel working within the Catholic Church find themselves targets of clergy sexual abuse. Bouclin describes some of the conflicted psychological dynamics these women experience.
Critical of the current, hierarchical model of Catholic priesthood, Bouclin offers an alternative approach based on the person and mission of Jesus. She explores the power of reading Scripture and sharing personal prayer in small-group faith communities. By doing so, she shows the paths women who have been sexually abused by priests can take to healing and wholeness.
Taking the plunge into 'ordination' should prove to be a self fulfilling prophecy :-)
Fixed it.
The woman must have an issue. Hope she finds the grace for healing.
By the way tomorrow the sun will rise in the West and liberals will have common sense.
Here kitty, kitty!
typical 60’s generation idiots...
the vatican needs to excommunicate them now, not waste any time.
btw, the FSSP is on its way to canada!! several canadian seminarians and a couple of priests there already. i’d love to tell those women that, their hearts would break!
My guess is that the former will be the first to occur.
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Yaaaawn.
I just named myself Pope, oh and I named myself president too. Maybe I’ll be king next week.
all have . . . how to say it . . . a certain "look" about them?
Like, totally nuts?
If nothing else, they are persistent, as if that would convince the Catholic Church to change its teachings. Notice the mention of “100” other seminarians. It would be so much less painful if they would simply follow in the footsteps of the former governor of NJ, McGeevey, and join the Episcopal Church.
Bishop A woman named Patricia Fresen from Germany will ordain imitate ordination rites and seemingly ordain Bouclin and the others, who are from the United States. There, that's better.
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She said the Eucharist (receiving communion) is the most important aspect of church life. However, "we are losing the Eucharist for lack of priests."
Apparently, for their group, 'fixing' the problem does not include ordaining unmarried men or encouraging vocations among unmarried men. But rather ordaining women and married men. Sigh.
Bishop Patty and Father Marie will have some ‘splainin” to do at death. Hey, I say a fish is a dog....doesn’t make it so.....except in liberal circles.
Nutty and lesbian.
Golly, there's an original point of view.
Welcome to the Twilight Zone!
Translation: She is being ordained as a Protestant minister in a brand new Protestant sect.
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