How convenient

Twelve women who will undergo a ritual on a riverboat today, which they say will make them Roman Catholic priests and deacons, held a press conference…to explain their motives for a ceremony that the Diocese of Pittsburgh calls a cause for excommunication.

The changes they want in the Catholic Church go far beyond women’s ordination.

Okay, there are at least three things to note about all that, just on the face of it. This was “a ritual”, whereas the true ordination to the ministerial priesthood is a Sacrament, instituted, by the way, by Christ.

So this ritual “which they say will make them Roman Catholic priests” works…how? Just saying the words? Wanting it badly enough? Priests are ordained by the laying on of hands in Holy Orders, by a bishop, a Successor of the Apostles. All of which has been done from Christ and the Apostles to right now.

The article says the Diocese of Pittsburgh calls this ceremony a cause for excommunication. What it should say is that the Diocese of Pittsburgh explains Church teaching that this is a cause for excommunication. Simple but vital distinction.

Words mean things. Words have consequences. But just saying something doesn’t make it so.

The dissident group calls itself Roman Catholic Womenpriests. Now that’s an oxymoron.

At least the article was clear in pointing out their real agenda.