{"id":2657,"date":"2008-11-14T19:30:06","date_gmt":"2008-11-15T00:30:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost:8888\/2008\/11\/14\/an-unlikely-appeal\/"},"modified":"2008-11-14T19:30:06","modified_gmt":"2008-11-15T00:30:06","slug":"an-unlikely-appeal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/2008\/11\/an-unlikely-appeal\/","title":{"rendered":"An unlikely appeal"},"content":{"rendered":"

ALBANY, Ga. (AP) — A Georgia priest facing excommunication for supporting the ordination of women said Friday he plans to visit the Vatican with a contingent of fellow priests and a bishop to appeal the decision.<\/p>\n

Roy Bourgeois, 69, a Maryknoll priest and nationally known peace activist, ran afoul of Vatican doctrine by participating in an Aug. 9 ceremony in Lexington, Ky., to ordain Janice Sevre-Duszynska, a member of a group called Roman Catholic Womenpriests. Recent popes have said the Roman Catholic Church cannot ordain women because Christ chose only males as apostles.<\/p>\n

“Who are we as men to say to women that our call to the priesthood is valid, but yours is not?” Bourgeois said in a telephone interview. “As Catholics we profess that the invitation to priesthood comes from God, and I believe that we are hampering with the sacred when we say that women must be excluded from being priests. That invitation is from God.” [article]<\/a><\/p>\n

Well who are you as a priest to set yourself up against the magisterium? Though I guess he must get to look through God’s mail since he says these invitations are from God. Vocations are routed through Fr. Bourgeois or at least he gets CC’ed.<\/p>\n

Bourgeois said the toughest part of the ordeal was informing his 95-year-old father, a devout Roman Catholic. He said he drove to his family’s home in Lutcher, La., near New Orleans, to tell him, and that his father shed tears and then told his family that God had protected Bourgeois before, and would continue to today.<\/p>\n

“When he said God will take care of him, I wept,” said Bourgeois.<\/p>\n

I find this very sad. It is always good to remember the human side of the equation and even though father here is in error, like almost all sin and thus error it is pursued as a good. Sincerity does not protect you from being sincerely wrong and maybe it is more than coincidence that sincerity starts with “sin”. Once again we see the use of “devout” by the media as someone who opposes the Church in some fashion.<\/p>\n

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As for his seeking an appeal from the CDF, good luck with that. It is not the CDF that needs to repent of a mistake.<\/p>\n

Canon Lawyer Ed Peters recent posted on this<\/a> and said “I suspect that a penal decree here will not only impose an excommunication, it will also lay the groundwork for a fairly expeditious dismissal from the clerical state.”<\/p>\n

\"Catholic<\/p>\n

If Fr. Bourgeois does get dismissed from the clerical state, at least it will not mean a change of wardrobe for him. Seriously though please pray for him.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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