Twelve women in Pittsburgh are set to be ordained as Roman Catholic clergy in the first service of its kind in the United States.
To the church, which prohibits the ordination of women, the service is invalid and illicit, the San Francisco Chronicle said Sunday.
But to the women, the ordinations are genuine, though they acknowledge the ordinations violate canon law. They say they are willing to risk excommunication in the hope of sparking a revolution of equality within an institution resistant to change.
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Catholics like this bug me, because they think they get it, but they don't, and no matter how much you try to show them this is foolish, they won't get it. They're so imbued with a modernist mentality, they don't get that once the Church settles a doctrine, that's it.
And how stupid does one have to be to risk excommunication? Sounds to me like they don't value Church authority in the first place, so it's not much of a risk.
I hope they are excommunicated.
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