S.F. priest leaving over attending women’s ordination conference

[_Abyssinia]

A Catholic priest will no longer be allowed to stand at the pulpit in San Francisco after attending a conference over the weekend advocating the ordination of women.

The Rev. Jack McClure will conduct his final Mass at the Most Holy Redeemer parish in the Castro on Sunday, archdiocese officials said.

There is some dispute about the particular sequence of events, and whether McClure’s resignation was voluntary or forced. But the two sides agree he is no longer welcome to perform priestly duties in San Francisco because he attended the conference.

sfgate.com/bayarea/article/S-F-priest-sanctioned-for-attending-women-s-6525428.php?forceWeb=1

 

[Johann_du_Toit]

The Archdiocese of San Francisco did the right thing in my opinion. We should not have wolves as our shepherds.

 

[Memaw]

The Archdiocese of San Francisco did the right thing in my opinion. We should not have wolves as our shepherds.

AMEN!!! Prayers, God Bless, Memaw

 

[Jeannie52]

I agree. Yes, the Pope is calling on all to have more dialog but not at the risk of being excommunicated or an outcast priest. The Pope wants the clergy to have more dialog in having the courage to speak out against abortion and SSM, more dialog on modesty, chastity and abstinence.

The priest made the wrong choice to go down the wrong path. In turn, the archdiocese made the right choice to ask for his resignation .

 

[TobyLue]

Women who “feel” called to the priesthood should understand that it is NOT a call from God.

I had to laugh on the statement “It was a very brave thing he did.” Brave? No!! Stupid? Yes. He should have known better.

Rev. McClure’s statement about the pope’s message to have dialogue should have remembered Pope John Paul’s Ordinatio Sacerdotalis, “We declare that the Church has no authority whatsoever to confer priestly ordination on women and that this judgment is to be definitively held by all the Church’s faithful.” So dialogue concerning women’s ordination is closed and moot.

"But I would be willing to give them 2,000 years to try it, because we really haven’t done all that well all the time either.” Huh? I have a better chance of growing wings and flying to the moon than a woman getting ordained in the CC.

 

[Suudy]

I had to laugh on the statement “It was a very brave thing he did.” Brave? No!! Stupid? Yes. He should have known better.

My father always told me the difference between bravery and recklessness is ignorance and/or arrogance. So perhaps Fr McClure was reckless?

 

[PTL]

Any priest publicly and purposely against the Church’s teaching is actually reckless. Fr McClure is not the only one.