Nine women, including one Canadian and one American, plan to defy the Vatican and become the first female Roman Catholic priests and deacons ordained in North America during a ceremony on a boat on the St Lawrence River next month. . .
The location for the ceremony was chosen because organisers considered it to be international waters between the United States and Canada where no diocese has jurisdiction and thus cannot interfere. . .
Fourteen women have already been ordained in similar river ceremonies in Europe in recent years and 65 others are planning to join their ranks soon.
The Vatican has refused to allow women becoming priests and reacted by excommunicating the first seven women ordained on the Danube River between Germany and Austria in 2003 after they refused to retract their vows.
But, two of the women, Christine Mayr-Lumetzberger of Austria and Gisela Forster of Germany, were later secretly ordained as bishops by their male counterparts in the Roman Catholic church, insists Birch-Conery.
The two women bishops will perform the St Lawrence ordinations.
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Well, far out. Eric Scheske kinda wants to be a priest, and now the precedence is set. He'll do it at an Indian reservation casino (reservations stand outside ordinary U.S. jurisdiction, hence he assumes they also stand outside any diocese's jurisdiction, though he doesn't see why that matters). He'll ask one of the honest and upright dealers to administer the oath, and then he'll just declare himself ordained.
And heck, as long as he's concocting his own rules, he'll come up with a rite to bless bestiality and polygamous marriages, and maybe he'll devise a peyote-smoking ritual, too.
This'll be fun and liberating.
