Another Priest Automatically Excommunicated Despite Bishop Olmsted’s Efforts

[1holycatholic]

Another Priest Automatically Excommunicated Despite Bishop Olmsted’s Efforts

Fr. Vernon Meyer, automatically excommunicated himself when he rejected the teachings of the Catholic Church concerning women ordination. Meyer participated in the “ordination” of Elaine Groppenbacher in Tempe, AZ last month. For Bishop Thomas J. Olmsted, this is the fifth priestly excommunication for serious refusal of faithful obedience to the Catholic Church, according to The Arizona Republic.

Referring to Meyer, Bishop Olmsted states: “Actions such as these are extremely serious and carry with them profoundly harmful consequences for the salvation of the souls participating in this attempted ordination. To feign the conferral of the Sacrament of Holy Orders results in the penalty of excommunication. This penalty applies both to the person attempting the ordination and the person attempting to be ordained.”
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[Loren_1of6]

Thank you for this link. Someone brought this up after daily Mass this morning, and I found the article published in the Arizona Republic newspaper. One of the ladies summed up the group’s reaction when she decried it as “a sin.” I would have agreed if she were talking about what Meyer had done, but then she said that “It’s a sin depriving the Church of good priests.”

I did try to stand up for Bishop Olmsted and the Church, but it was only one against four and they weren’t listening.

 

[ConstantineTG]

Thank you for this link. Someone brought this up after daily Mass this morning, and I found the article published in the Arizona Republic newspaper. One of the ladies summed up the group’s reaction when she decried it as “a sin.” I would have agreed if she were talking about what Meyer had done, but then she said that “It’s a sin depriving the Church of good priests.”

I did try to stand up for Bishop Olmsted and the Church, but it was only one against four and they weren’t listening.

In a way she’s right, it is depriving the Church of good priests. They just wasted time ordaining someone who can never be a priest, rather than spend it on ordaining someone who