On this joyous day, we celebrated Eucharist and among us
was Fr.Roy Bourgeois, Maryknoll priest. Fr. Roy Bourgeois is calling for the ordination
of women priests in the Roman Catholic Church. On this day we gave thanks for the
ordination of women priests as a matter of justice,
and pray that the Vatican sees the Light and recognizes the "sensus fidelum"
---that the People of God want women priests.
The reading from Corinthians says it well:
For in one Spirit we were all baptized into one body,
whether Jews or Greeks, slaves or free persons,
and we were all given to drink of one Spirit.
Jimmy Carter also says it well:
Today, when religious institutions exclude women from their hierarchies and rituals, the inevitable implication is that females are inferior. "The Elders" are right that religious groups should stand up for a simple ethical principle: any person’s human rights should be sacred, and not depend on something as earthly as their genitals.
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