Support, criticism swirl around dissident priest

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To clarify, this thread is about Fr. Roy Bourgeois. Here are the first three paragraphs from the National Catholic Reporter article:
The news that peace activist Fr. Roy Bourgeois was threatened with excommunication for his support of women’s ordination unleashed a storm of commentary and reaction from various Catholic interest groups and around the blogosphere.
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If the issue is settled for Rome, it is still wide open in some Catholic circles. In addition to the expected sharp division between those who applaud Bourgeois’ action and those who find it scandalous, people have posed thoughtful questions about conscience, and how and whether the church can force someone to violate his conscience. Others, in what amounts to a fairly robust discussion of the question of women’s ordination, raise issues of history and women’s place in the early church based on an understanding of scripture and archaeological evidence.
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Another thread that runs through much of the commentary asks how the church could act so swiftly against Bourgeois when decades passed before the church even began to investigate cases of sex abuse of children by priests. Meanwhile, Bourgeois, a Maryknoll priest of 36 years, is trying to meld issues that normally operate in separate spheres by claiming that the ban on ordaining women is as serious an injustice within the church as the injustices he has confronted in the realms of the political and military.
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NCR, like the national media, is blatantly anti-Catholic. Clearly shown in the article.
 
Didn’t they promise to excommunicate him a few months ago? What’s the holdup?
 
Martin tacks a “reflection” to the end `of his entry in which he recounts that the excommunication warning was sent to Bourgeois in October, within three months of the ordination ceremony in August. “Would that the church had acted with equal swiftness against sexually abusive priests. Would that bishops who had moved abusive priests from parish to parish were met with th same severeity of justice.
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Wow even I know more about canon law than this guy!

You can’t be excommunicated if you repent. Excommunication is for people who are obstinate in their actions. So it would not apply to clergy who express sorrow for what they did, no matter what it was.
 
Scoobyshme said:
NCR, like the national media, is blatantly anti-Catholic. Clearly shown in the article.
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I didn’t see anything in the article that appeared anti-Catholic; it seemed like a fairly balanced presentation of the situation.

Frankly I agree that the priest should be excommunicated if he doesn’t recant. He concelebrated an ordination of women priests; at least the Church seems to take some things seriously.

Regarding the complaints voiced by Fr. Bourgeois’ supporters, they range from the irrelevant to the preposterous. This comment, for example:

In a series of questions, the group also asked why the Vatican continued to ignore “the voice of the community,” citing surveys that regularly show a heavy majority of Catholics would approve of women priests.

It is breathtaking that someone actually believes that matters of faith should be decided by taking a vote - and on a matter which is taught as infallible to boot.

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So this is the National Catholic Reporter I’ve heard so much about.

How can they call themselves catholic? Every paragraph seems to be aimed against the Church and in favour of the heretics who support the ordination of women. They seem to be trying to undermime the theological posion of the Church against womens ordination and as all anti-catholics, they had to bring up the child abuse scandal.

Also, if one reads the comments, they all seem to support the heretics, some even compare Fr. Bourgeois to Martin Luther who they also seem to think was a good thing.

This paper shouldn’t be allowed to call itself catholic.

The sooner this priest is excommunicated the better!
 
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I didn’t see anything in the article that appeared anti-Catholic; it seemed like a fairly balanced presentation of the situation.
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Well, the article shows a curious misunderstanding of even the most rudamentry aspects of the Catholic faith.

It seems flat out bizarre IMO for a Catholic newspaper to publish an article and word it like that.
 
I would love to be a fly on the wall if this preist does go to Rome and trys to pull the old “primacy of conscience” dodge
 
I really only just heard about the so-called priest yesterday in our local paper a few days ago.

www.tribstar.com/archivesearch/local_story_355224951.html

We have a ridiculously liberal columnist who hates traditional Catholicism, and that’s pretty much the entire reason it was in our paper. It’s bothersome. She once foretold how the Pope in 2020 would be a woman. Which is ridiculous, because the word “Pope” basically amounts to “father”. She’s pretty ignorant.

www.tribstar.com/archivesearch/local_story_341222123.html

Luckily, a reply to here column in the Reader’s forum today from someone who knew what they were talking about. But I can’t seem to find it online. Bummer.
 
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