Mother of a revolution; Marie Bouclin loves the religion that won't recognize her ordinationShe fights against the Church she claims to love...I'd hate to see her reactions if she claimed to hate the Church...
Marie Evans Bouclin has been bucking the church for years, speaking out against what she calls unjust treatment of women in her religion.
Last Sunday, she went against the teachings of that church and was ordained a priest in the Roman Catholic Womenpriests movement.
Bouclin and a growing number of women and men reject that view [the Church's irreformable teaching that priestly ordination is reserved to males only]. Rather than leave the church they love, they choose to remain and fight for change.Some people are too blinded by pride or are too ignorant to recognize that they will never win this fight - even with Satan on their side.
"If there's a mess, you clean it up. If a kid hurts himself, you pick him up and you kiss the bobo; you put a Band-aid on it," says the mother of three grown children."I feel the same way about the church." Of course, she does - the fact remains however, that she could not be more at odds with the Church and with Christ, Himself...Unfortunately, it appears that she is unable to even differentiate that which is right from that which is wrong. Hopefully, her children have learned to properly judge when (and if) she is right and when she has ventured off into La-La land...
"You teach your children right from wrong. You care for people. I feel the same way about the church."
But women like Bouclin, Bishop Patricia Fresen and thousands of others don't buy it. "I am Roman Catholic to my toes," said Bouclin, 66.Sure you are, sweetie...And I'm the newest Pope.
The article proceeds to tell of Bouclin's life and fight with the Church, as if to justify her rejection of Church authority.
Andre Gagne believes it's time the Roman Catholic Church talked to women and married men who feel called to the ministry. "It has to ... for the church to survive," said Gagne, a Biblical scholar and religious studies professor at the University of Sudbury.Another deluded professor who, it seems, is Catholic in name only and chooses to lead others away from the faith. I suppose he needs the company...
A Roman Catholic, Gagne teaches students to take a critically interpretative look at Scripture and draw their own conclusions.
The difference between Luther and women like Bouclin and Fresen is these women have no intention of leaving the church, said Gagne. They are "profoundly Catholic and they want to stay Catholic. They don't want to join the Anglican or the United Church.""Profoundly Catholic"? Sounds like someone needs to lay off the hallucinogens...
Brigitte Angster-Beckett is a Sudbury woman who will not leave her church. Angster-Beckett attended Bouclin's ordination and found it a moving and deeply spiritual experience.It's all about how one feels...And Satan, no doubt, appreciates how deeply spiritual this experience was for all of his followers...
"Everybody there was so charged up ... it was really an act of worship," says Angster-Beckett. "I thought it was just wonderful."The devil has no problem, it seems, finding and recruiting followers...
"I will not go," said Angster-Beckett this week in Sudbury. "This is my church and I am staying."So howsabout some names? Have they not excommunicated themselves?
That is the thinking of Bishop Patricia Fresen, the South African nun who lost her church, her university teaching job and even her homeland after she became involved in Roman Catholic Womenpriests.
Fresen, 66, now lives in Germany after being offered refuge there after she left South Africa. Fresen was ordained by three male bishops, "in good standing with Rome."
"Nothing can put us out of the church," said Fresen after Sunday's ceremony. "Once we are baptized, we are in Christ Jesus. We are members of the church and nothing can put us out."Nothing? Nothing at all? Does this mean that once we are baptized and in Jesus Christ that we are assured of eternal salvation?
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