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Boston Diocese Boots 'Women Priests'

Posted Jul 21, 08 9:08 AM CDT in US 

(Newser) – A group campaigning for women to be admitted to the Roman Catholic priesthood held a ceremony in a Protestant church in Boston yesterday in which three women were declared Catholic priests and a fourth a deacon. The Archdiocese of Boston immediately denounced the action and declared that the women had automatically excommunicated themselves by taking part in the unauthorized ordination, reports the Boston Globe.

A spokesman for a conservative lay organization blasted the ordinations as a "sacrilegious parody" of Holy Orders whose "publicity value must be measured against the manifest fraudulence and irredeemable hopelessness of their cause.” Said a female Protestant minister: “Prejudice in liturgical clothing is still prejudice.’’

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Rose Marie Dunn Hudson and Patricia Fresen, both members of the activist group Roman Catholic Womenpriests. The group ordained three new women priests Sunday.   (AP Photo/Tom Gannam)
Cardinal Sean Patrick O'Malley, archbishop of Boston. He has declared the women who took part in an ordination ceremony Sunday excommunicated from the Roman Catholic Church.   (AP Photo/Marlene Karas)
Pope Benedict XVI is adamantly opposed to women in the priesthood.   (AP Photo/Dean Lewins, POOL)
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