Newly ordained in St. Louis, two women priests seek reform

Newly ordained in St. Louis, two women priests seek reform
By KEVIN MURPHY
The Kansas City Star


Rose Marie Hudson feels as if she is walking on water. Elsie McGrath says the experience is more like floating in the clouds. It’s not an opportunity women generally get — becoming Catholic priests. But that’s what Hudson and McGrath consider themselves after an ordination ceremony Sunday in St. Louis.

A Catholic group’s bishop ordained the women as about 600 people observed. Hudson and McGrath plan to celebrate their first Mass on Dec. 1, in defiance of the Archdiocese of St. Louis, which has threatened excommunication.

Hudson, 67, and McGrath, 69, said they were not just fulfilling a dream but wanted to give rise to a movement.

“Our major reason for doing this is to reform and renew the church and bring it into the 21st century, where women are not second-class citizens,” Hudson said Monday. Hudson is married and has four children.

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BE SURE AND READ THE COMMENTS FOLLOWING THE ARTICLE. :wow:

They went through the trouble of being "ordained" as "Catholic Priests," only to establish a protestant church?

WTF?

That's for sure.

problem in every parish these days. How do we open our communities to the gifts the Holy Spirit sends us when a small group insists that these gifts are valid only when they come in the form of a male celibate? How do we convince a small group of celibate males to open the government of the Church to all believers? We are stuck with a rigid structure that developed out of the chaos in Europe that followed the fall of the Roman Empire and immigration of various tribes.

Celibate males insist that only they are called by God to preside at Eucharist. Meanwhile more and more Catholics are left to hunger for the sacrament.


FWIW - I believe that Martin De Porres was denied Holy Orders either because he was considered illegitimate (his father never married his mother) or because he was mulatto or both. Rules can change.

is re-establishing the balance between masculine and feminine energies in the church. Kudos for them and their open mindedness.