July 31 - 12 Women to Excommunicate Themselves

On July 31, a dozen well-educated, experienced Roman Catholic women will pass into uncharted spiritual waters on a boat cruising Pittsburgh's rivers.

On that afternoon, three women in vestments will lay their hands on the heads of the 12 women and anoint their hands with oil during an ordination ceremony that will be the first of its kind in the United States.

A first for the US...Well then, everyone get to Pittsburgh!

The Women's Ordination Conference, based in Fairfax, Va., will announce today its support of the Pittsburgh ceremony, which will be held aboard the Gateway Clipper boat Majestic. Pittsburgh was selected because of its central location.

Central location? With reference to what...? The eastern US?

Among the participants is Joan Clark Houk, 65, of McCandless, who with seven other women are answering a call to be priests...

I suppose this would be considered a "late" vocation...And just "who" is doing the calling?

Mrs. Houk is a cradle Catholic and mother of six. She has served as a pastoral director in two Kentucky parishes, worked on a marriage tribunal, taught catechism and the Rite of Christian Initiation for Adults and worked with her husband, John, to prepare engaged couples for marriage.

Just take a look at the path she has followed...Is this path of hers strewn with dead souls of those who may have once been Catholic or did she actually help people embrace Christ and His Church? Have those with whom she came in contact in RCIA and catechetics learned to embrace some other faith as she is doing? One cannot help but wonder if there is a path of destruction behind her.

The safety and salvation of souls, particularly those which might be poisoned by imposters of the Faith, is one of the primary reasons people like this must be dealt with quickly and decisively. If one openly rejects any Church teaching, then why would one want to participate in the catechizing of others, except to promote that which is contrary to the Church and thus infect others with dissent, doubt, or even heresy.

And why would a pastor, priest, or bishop permit such individuals to "teach" or catechize or engage in some apostolate when such people should be prohibited from positions where their disease can spread. By allowing such people to remain in positions of authority, the Church, at least tacitly, extends her approval of dissent, heterdoxy, and heresy.

The Rev. Ronald Lengwin, spokesman for the Diocese of Pittsburgh, said the church "has determined that the ordination of males is a part of the faith handed down by Christ through his apostles and therefore the church is not free to change it. Ordination to the priesthood can only be conferred on a male...I would say they have freely chosen to separate themselves from the church," he said.

They have been blinded and seduced by satan, no doubt, after having abandoned our Lord.

"The church has to take a stand for women ... that they are the image of God and are to be respected and treated on an equal, human level. This is really why I have to do what I am doing," she said in a recent interview.

But....I thought she was being called to the priestesshood?

Presiding at the ceremony will be Patricia Fresen, Gisela Forster and Ida Raming, who live in Germany and are bishops in Roman Catholic Womenpriests, an international group of Catholics who support women's ordination.

Ms. Fresen was interviewed on a St. Louis radio station recently with two other excommunicated individuals, Marek Bozek of St Stanislaus Church (a once Catholic parish in St Louis which has been suppressed) and Frank Krebs, (an ex-priest, and admitted homosexual living with his lover) who now leads others at "Sts. Clare & Francis Ecumenical Catholic Community", a group which is anything but Catholic. It is a community, though - of those who have started their own 'religion.'

Ms. Fresen and others claim that they have really been ordained and are part of the Church's apostolic succession because "Roman Catholic bishops in good standing ordained them secretly..." Right! Of course, they did! And about 18-20 men all over the world claim to be the real Pope. Is one obliged to believe one of these imposters as well?

The reason they have their "parties" on the water is, as Fresen puts it, "no Catholic priest or bishop is brave enough to give us a church." Why do they want a Catholic church to perform their parties? There are plenty of protestant church buildings where the 'ordination' of women is no problem...There are certainly other secular areas where this scheme can take place...

But a church really isn't necessary anyway as a boat is an ideal place for the party, since it's a symbol of the Church. Fresen informs us that, "Jesus ... taught from a boat. Some of the earliest disciples were fishermen." And let's not forget all those "fisherwomen"...

And even to this day, we see floating churches on our rivers and waterways...today, though, they are moe widely recognized as casinos...

All of these women suffer from delusions and they desperately need our prayers.

The Post-Gazzette has posted a 3 page letter from Joan Clark Houk to Bishop Wuerl here (PDF file). As with other sad cases of schism, she and others feel that they have the competence to determine how canon law should be established. Having been filled with the "spirit" their eyes have been opened to see the continued injustice of the Church with regard to Canon 1024, among others, I'm sure. They complain that the Church is wrong in promulating Canon 1024 with regard to baptized males only for valid ordination.

Her letter is a sad commentary on her defection from the faith - her rejection of the Church.