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Posted by Virginia Rigney on July 21, 2008 at 2:20 a.m.

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Women Priests Ordained

I'm a fan of Eileen Roddy. And her post commemorating Nelson Mandela on his 90th birthday is no exception. After contrasting Mandela's ideals of freedom and equality with the divisiveness we are experiencing in America, she offers this profound thought, ":I can be a channel for harmony or a source of discord." Ok, so I was feeling enlightened(ish) and resolved to be a "channel for harmony" from this day forward. But:then I read this article about three women who wanted to be Catholic priests:so they got two female bishops to perform the ordination ceremony:but the Church said it didn't count:but they said yes it did because the bishops were ordained by "all-male Roman Catholic bishops who are in good standing with the church"...but the Church said they would be excommunicated anyway:You get the idea.According to the article "Catholics who are excommunicated cannot receive sacraments. The penalty can be lifted if those who have been punished are sincerely repentant."By now the "source of discord" in me was starting to rear its ugly head. I hit the email-this-article-to-a-friend-button and began spewing in the add-a-personal-message box: Sincerely repentant?...or sincerely and passionately defended?... "Speak out," I told my fellow Catholic women. "Write a letter to the editor; contact your local bishop; wear a veil to mass on Sunday in protest:do it for your daughters and granddaughters."But then...I thought of Eileen and wondered, "What would Nelson Mandela do?":Ok, so I pushed the send button.

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