Rosemarie Smead: Woman Ordained Priest By Roman Catholic Dissident Group

[SpartanDem]

In an emotional ceremony filled with tears and applause, a 70-year-old Kentucky woman was ordained a priest on Saturday as part of a dissident group operating outside of official Roman Catholic Church authority.

Rosemarie Smead is one of about 150 women around the world who have decided not to wait for the Roman Catholic Church to lift its ban on women priests, but to be ordained and start their own congregations.

In an interview before the ceremony, Smead said she is not worried about being excommunicated from the Church - the fate of other women ordained outside of Vatican law.

"It has no sting for me," said Smead, a petite, gray-haired former Carmelite nun with a ready hug for strangers. "It is a Medieval bullying stick the bishops used to keep control over people and to keep the voices of women silent. I am way beyond letting octogenarian men tell us how to live our lives."

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/04/29/woman-priest-ordained_n_3174277.html?utm_hp_ref=religion

[hrmjustin]

1. Women should be ordained.

My rector is a woman and she has put the parish in the black.

[Phillip McCleod]

2. anecdotal. women can be every bit as gullible as men..

..when it comes to oppressing outsiders.

for your every example of your rector, i can summon up a michelle bachmann.

[hrmjustin]

3. Tammy Faye!

[Phillip McCleod]

4. thank you!

.. i was trying to think of her name, but all i could envision was those hypnotic psycho whites-of-the-eyes of the MN mauler.

[hrmjustin]

5. I think she tatooed the eyelashes.

[Phillip McCleod]

6. OW! that's a sensitive area..

.. didn't she hide under a bench in the courtroom or some shit? or was that him? either way.. cowards.

howly mowly!

[hrmjustin]

7. He cried like a baby. He draged himself when the cops got him.

Jerry Falwell I think had to take over some of his ministries. Went from one crook to another.

[Phillip McCleod]

8. that's right.. that's right.. i was a teen at the time..

.. so it's somewhat vague, but it definitely made an impression.

gawd.. how 'bout those good ole bad days? remember when tipper *gore* was a *bad guy*?

[hrmjustin]

9. I have a friend who said he would smoke pot listening to Tammy Faye and it was the best of fun.

[Phillip McCleod]

10. hm. you have weird friends..

.. i like that. means you're weird, and i when SNAFU is SOP.. that is..

normal = 'FUCKED!! UP!!!!11!1!!'

.. well, then 'weird' usually means 'good'.

[hrmjustin]

11. Wierd is fun!

[Phillip McCleod]

12. and fun is gooood.

(wasn't that the catinthehat?)