Lexington Woman Ordained a Priest (and self-excommunicated) [Ecumenical]

WTVQ ^ | August 9, 2008

[NYer]

 A Lexington woman goes against centuries of tradition and the Catholic Church to be ordained a priest.
 Jane Sevre-Duszynska was publicly ordained Saturday afternoon as a Roman Catholic woman-priest.
 Ten years ago, Sevre-Duszynska asked a Lexington bishop to ordain her as priest. He refused. Even so she never gave up her belief she had been called to the ministry.
 Saturday, inside the Unitarian Universalist church, she became the first woman in the South to be ordained by the Roman Catholic woman priest.
 The Roman Catholic Church does not recognize Sevre-Duszynska or any of the Roman Catholic women priests.
 The Lexington Diocese issued this statement: "The name notwithstanding 'Roman Catholic woman priests' is not an entity of the Roman Catholic Church."
 

The statement went on to say: "In the Roman Catholic Church only a baptized male is capable of receiving the sacrament of Holy Order validly."
 As she participates in sacred rites, she faces the possibility of being permanently estranged from the faith she holds so dear, through excommunication.
 The statement from the Lexington Diocese also says any simulation of a sacrament carries very serious penalties within church law and Catholics were urged not to support or participate in the ordination.
 Lexington police were on standby outside the church in case of protesters but none showed.

[NYer]

Lexington police were on standby outside the church in case of protesters but none showed.

ROFL!!! This must be the latest ploy to draw attention to their invalid ordinations.

As the number of phony ceremonies continues to grow, we Catholics have a responsibility to educate the ignorant media. Perhaps we can come up with a simple, standardized statement of why the ordinations are not valid and why there will never be woman priests in the Catholic Church, and email it to the respective reporters and newspapers. Your thoughts?

[SumProVita]

“...she never gave up her belief she had been called to the ministry...”

CORRECTION: ...she never gave up the deception....

[WayneS]

She is no more a priest than “Joe and Bob” are “married.

[ladtx]

Even so she never gave up her belief she had been called to the ministry.

So enter a convent, what's so hard about that. Guess that would take her out of the limelight though, and heavens, we couldn't have that.

[rochester_veteran]

Jane Sevre-Duszynska was publicly ordained Saturday afternoon as a Roman Catholic woman-priest.

Why do these clueless reporters insist on propagating the lie that this woman was ordained a "Roman Catholic" priest? Didn't the reporter "catch a clue" that this was a false "ordination" by the fact that it was held in a Unitarian Universalist church! That's the same way the stupid media reported Ramerman's ordination.

At least Bishop Clark had the sense to call it what it was, "Clark said Spiritus Christi had severed its relationship with him and repudiated the authority of the pope. The ordination of Ramerman seals the schism between Spiritus Christi and the Roman Catholic church and does by deed what Spiritus Christi has declined to put into words, Clark wrote."

[trisham]

As she participates in sacred rites, she faces the possibility of being permanently estranged from the faith she holds so dear

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"so dear" = "for which she has contempt"

[3AngelaD]

What a parody. Notice this “news” story written by a moron doesn’t say who “ordained” her. She is the passive recipient of an ordination! She “was ordained,” not “Archbishop So-and-so ordained her.” Why was that tiny little detail was left out of this story? Because the person who did the ordaining has no more right or authority to ordain a priest than my dog does. Of course no one showed up to protest. The event was of no significance whatsoever.

[NYer]

Why do these clueless reporters insist on propagating the lie that this woman was ordained a "Roman Catholic" priest?

Ignorance; hence my comment on post #2.

[trisham]

As the number of phony ceremonies continues to grow, we Catholics have a responsibility to educate the ignorant media. Perhaps we can come up with a simple, standardized statement of why the ordinations are not valid and why there will never be woman priests in the Catholic Church, and email it to the respective reporters and newspapers. Your thoughts?

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I don't know. So far, nothing has had an impact. The media wants this to happen, so they're not going to accept anything different.

[BooksForTheRight.com]

She’s not a priest. She wants to be, and can’t be.

[John Leland 1789]

So does the Roman Catholic Church, or diocese (what’s the plural for this word?) thereof identify the church as the “Roman Catholic Church?” The response of the Lexington Diocese would seem to indicate that it does, if the quotes are correct.

I ask the question, because several have criticized my use of the label “Roman Catholic Church.”

[Unam Sanctam]

inside the Unitarian Universalist church

I certainly hope the Church calls off any ecumenical talks with any denominations so disrespectful of others as to host something like this. It is "interference" in the internal affairs of another religion far more than the "Dominus Iesus Christus" document ever was, about which people screamed that the Church was being unecumenical.

[Ransomed]

There’s no such thing as a woman priest. It’s like saying “he was a male priestess” or “that blue is a great shade of orange” or “those two guys got married”. Does any christian organization that allows the ordination of women use the word “priestess”?

Freegards

[verga]

As the number of phony ceremonies continues to grow, we Catholics have a responsibility to educate the ignorant media. Perhaps we can come up with a simple, standardized statement of why the ordinations are not valid and why there will never be woman priests in the Catholic Church, and email it to the respective reporters and newspapers. Your thoughts?

"In the Roman Catholic Church only a baptized male is capable of receiving the sacrament of Holy Order validly." As she participates in sacred rites, she faces the possibility of being permanently estranged from the faith she holds so dear, through excommunication. The statement from the Lexington Diocese also says any simulation of a sacrament carries very serious penalties within church law and Catholics were urged not to support or participate in the ordination.

I think this about says it all.

[Religion Moderator]

This is an “ecumenical” thread in the Religion Forum. Antagonism is not allowed.