“VATICAN CITY - The Vatican insisted Friday that it is properly following Christian tradition by excluding females from the priesthood as it issued a new warning that women taking part in ordinations will be excommunicated.

The move dashed the hopes both of women seeking to be priests and of Catholics who see that as an option for a church struggling to recruit men.”

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I don’t find this surprising, at all. I do, however, see a split from the church and a new Roman Catholic denomination much more of a possiblity now.

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1. Unitarian Universalism (100%)

2. Liberal Quakers (85%)

3. Neo-Pagan (84%)

4. New Age (81%)

5. Secular Humanism (75%)

6. Taoism (73%)

7. Mainline - Liberal Christian Protestants (70%)

8. New Thought (69%)

9. Scientology (66%)

10. Mahayana Buddhism (63%)

11. Christian Science (Church of Christ, Scientist) (55%)

12. Reform Judaism (52%)

13. Hinduism (51%)

14. Non-theist (48%)

15. Theravada Buddhism (47%)

16. Orthodox Quaker (45%)

17. Bahai (32%)

18. Sikhism (32%)

19. Jainism (27%)

20. Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints (Mormons) (24%)

21. Seventh Day Adventist (20%)

22. Mainline - Conservative Christian Protestant (18%)

23. Eastern Orthodox (13%)

24. Islam (13%)

25. Orthodox Judaism (13%)

26. Roman Catholic (13%)

27. Jehovah’s Witness (5%)
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I’d say that’s pretty accurate….interesting stuff…

“ROMAN CATHOLIC WOMENPRIESTS - North America

VISION STATEMENT

“A new model of ordained ministry
in a renewed Roman Catholic church”

Part I.  Mission
Roman Catholic Womenpriests (RCWP)
is an international initiative within the Roman Catholic Church.

The mission of Roman Catholic Womenpriests North America is to spiritually prepare, ordain, and support women and men from all states of life, who are theologically qualified, who are committed to an inclusive model of Church, and who are called by the Holy Spirit and their communities to minister ”

http://www.romancatholicwomenpriests.org/index.php

You do not have to be good.
You do not have to walk on your knees
for a hundred miles through the desert, repenting.
You only have to let the soft animal of your body love what it loves.
Tell me about despair, yours, and I will tell you mine.
Meanwhile the world goes on.
Meanwhile the sun and the clear pebbles of the rain
are moving across the landscapes,
over the prairies and the deep trees,
the mountains and the rivers.
Meanwhile the wild geese, high in the clean blue air,
are heading home again.
Whoever you are, no matter how lonely,
the world offers itself to your imagination,
calls to you like the wild geese, harsh and exciting—
over and over announcing your place
in the family of things.

by Mary Oliver