<Roto Reuters> CINCINNATI A married man and former Brother did something his church doctrine says he cannot do.<\/p>\n
Paul Hoeffer became a religious sister.<\/p>\n
On Friday, the Deer Park resident became the 1st man to be \u201cvowed\u201d as a religious sister as part of the \u201cMens Sisterazation Movement\u201d. A female bishop who says she was ordained by a male Catholic bishop she met in a coffee shop. led the ceremony.<\/p>\n
Paul Hoeffer, who has taken the name \u201cSister Paul of the Non-Gendered Relationships in God\u201d, released a statement:<\/p>\n
\u201cAs a former Catholic Brother I was fed up with being a second class citizen when it came to vowed religious. Catholic Brothers are the Rodney Dangerfield of religion in that \u201dwe get no respect.\u201c First off if you\u2019re a Catholic Brother, people think you just didn\u2019t have what it takes to be a priest. Then there is the fact that we get no attention whatsoever. Was there ever a \u201dFlying Brother\u201c, \u201dBrother Act\u201c, \u201dTwo Mules for Brother Sean\u201c or any Hollywood attention regarding Brothers? How many Brothers had a number one hit on the charts or got viral attention on YouTube of a Brother singing a contemporary song? Again zero. If we went on a social justice tour with a bus the media wouldn\u2019t care and no Brothers have gotten a pen from the President for helping to pass legislation.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cNobody ever dresses up as a Brother on Halloween and plus we don\u2019t get to wear a wimple, cornette, or any other attention-grabbing headpiece. Plus even when Brothers go off the theological reservation they don\u2019t get the same attention from the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith. Even if this happened we would not get the same fawning media attention defending anything we might do.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cAll the power is really with religious sisters, which is so unfair. Scripture says \u201dThere is neither Jew nor Greek\u201c and yet the Church would deny my vocation as a religious sister? When the Vatican proclaims that men can not adequately represent religious sisterness they are denying that we are equal in Christ. Besides there is a statue in Rome that just might depict a male Sister if you squint your eyes at the right time of day.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
The Archdiocese of Cincinnati issued the following statement:<\/p>\n
\u201cChurch law and teaching are clear that only a baptized female can be vowed as a women\u2019s religious ub the Catholic Church. Any attempted vowing of men to the Catholic women\u2019s religious life is therefore invalid, and would be even in the unlikely event that a validly ordained bishop met in a coffee shop presided.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
Hoeffer did it anyway \u2013 even if it does mean excommunication from his church.<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019m breaking that code. And I also believe that code was man-made and I really really want to be part of the Church where I think everything I don\u2019t agree with, which is a lot, was man-made.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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