Doxa

On August 9, 2008, Fr. Roy stood with Janice Sevre-Duszynska as she was ordained as part of the Roman Catholic Women Priests movement. While the movement has ordained 32 women to the priesthood and deaconate, this was the first time that a Roman Catholic priest in good standing has participated. Janice, who I also had the pleasure of meeting once, is a compassionate and creative woman who looks like a slightly older version of Tori Amos. Fr. Roy’s involvement in her ordination was, I’m sure, not something done on a whim. Janice’s commitment to social justice has led to her involvement in the movement to close SOA/WHINSEC, even as one of the movement’s prisoners of conscience, who yearly risk arrest. Janice’s ordination was not merely symbolic – she is his colleague, his friend. I believe that Fr. Roy reached a place where he could no longer speak about injustice in the world without confronting obvious injustice in his Church, which he has lovingly served for 26 years.

For taking this stance on behalf of women’s ordination, Fr. Roy now faces excommunication by the Vatican’s Congregation of the Doctrine of the Faith, unless he recants his stance on women’s ordination. Fr. Roy, prayerfully, prophetically, has refused. In his letter replying to the CDF, he writes, “Sexism, like racism, is a sin. And no matter how hard or how long we may try to justify discrimination, in the end, it is always immoral.”

http://youngadultcatholics-blog.com/200 ... of-fr-roy/

ZAROVE wrote:So its right to completely disregard the teachings of the Church, and to destroy the meaning of the Priesthood as it is understood in Catholicism, as well as to throw away Apostolic Succession which ensures the Validity of the Sacraments for Political correctness. Right.