Toni Tortorilla, ordained in .. Womenpriests movement, hopes Catholic Church will catch up

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Toni Tortorilla, ordained in the Roman Catholic Womenpriests movement, hopes Catholic Church will catch up
Published: Saturday, July 24, 2010, 10:31 AM
Nancy Haught, The Oregonian

A Portland woman, ordained in the Roman Catholic Womenpriests movement three years ago, says the Vatican announcement earlier this month listing pedophilia and women's ordination as grave offenses is an insult to clerical abuse victims and women seeking ordination ...

On July 15, the Vatican announced revisions in the way it handles clerical sexual abuse. Many Catholics were stunned that the official statement listed attempts to ordain women alongside pedophilia as "grave delicts," along with heresy, apostasy and schism. At a press conference on the same day, a Vatican spokesman explained that sexual abuse and pornography "are more grave delicts" and women's ordination is "grave, but on another level." The same day, Archbishop Donald W. Wuerl, chairman of the U.S. bishops' committee on doctrine, said the Vatican statement referred to "the seriousness with which it holds offenses against the sacrament of holy orders" and was not a sign of disrespect toward women.

"The Catholic Church, through its long and constant teaching, holds that ordination has been, from the beginning, reserved to men, a fact which cannot be changed despite changing times," Wuerl said. But dozens of groups supporting women's ordination have denounced the Vatican statement. Polls say a majority of American Catholics favor ordaining women: 59 percent, according to a May 2010 survey by The New York Times and CBS News.

Tortorilla, ordained July 28, 2007, serves Sophia Christi Catholic Community in Portland and Eugene. About 40 people attend the Portland services on the second Saturday of the month. About 30 gather in Eugene on the second Sunday ...

http://www.oregonlive.com/O/index.ssf/2010/07/ordained_women_hope_church_wil.html

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1. Excommunicated But Not Intimidated

Jul 23, 2010

Jane Via, a county prosecutor, can't receive the sacraments at an official Roman Catholic Church. She can't even be buried in consecrated ground when her time comes.

Yet she gives communion, marries people -- even gays -- and takes confession. Via, who was ordained in Europe without the Vatican's approval, ... oversees a parish that meets in a Serra Mesa neighborhood church each Sunday evening ...

In an interview at the spare Lutheran church where her 150-member parish rents space, Via spoke of her conversion to Catholicism, her unyielding opposition to the Vatican and her faith in the power of change over time ...

http://www.voiceofsandiego.org/people/q_and_a/article_92094498-96a6-11df-9332-001cc4c03286.html

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2. These people can call themselves Catholics

until they're blue in the face...but they're not. Why they would want to is yet another mystery surrounding the aberrant psychology of the religiously indoctrinated.