Maryknoll Priest Roy Bourgeois Calls Meeting with Superiors "Productive"

From the National Catholic Reporter (Dissent Propaganda Central) we read:

Maryknoll Fr. Roy Bourgeois, who concelebrated a Mass at a women’s ordination ceremony earlier this month, has met with leaders of his religious community, calling the meeting “productive.” At the same time, Bourgeois told his superiors he did not recant his actions and urged a continuing dialogue about the place of women in the church.

He did not recant and presumes to tell the Church that further dialogue is needed...This, after he presumably "concelebrated" with a group of women who are not now, nor ever can be, ordained. It is not noted whether or not he laid his hands on the head of the woman to be "ordained."

Perhaps, a re-reading of the General Decree by the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, Regarding the crime of attempting sacred ordination of a woman is in order:

The Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, to protect the nature and validity of the sacrament of holy orders, in virtue of the special faculty conferred to it by the supreme authority of the Church (see canon 30, Canon Law), in the Ordinary Session of December 19, 2007, has decreed:

Remaining firm on what has been established by canon 1378 of the Canon Law, both he who has attempted to confer holy orders on a woman, and the woman who has attempted to receive the said sacrament, incurs in latae sententiae excommunication, reserved to the Apostolic See....

Perhaps a canon lawyer can confirm if this priest has incurred automatic excommunication based on the reports to date?

Maryknoll spokeswoman Betsey Guest said Bourgeois and Maryknoll leadership released a joint statement following their meeting that states, “An investigation has been carried out as to the true facts of the August 9 event in Lexington, Ky., A report of that investigation will be sent to the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith in Rome. In the meantime, Fr. Bourgeois has received a canonical warning...."

“Contrary to popular understanding, participants in the ceremony, such as Father Bourgeois, were not automatically excommunicated,” the statement said.

A "canonical warning"? This is the best that the Maryknoll order can do for a wayward renegade priest who has publicly repudiated the Church?

Bourgeois said he knows that the Vatican could come down with a more severe penalty. And if Vatican authorities should say he’s excommunicated? “I would be very very sad. I’ve been a Maryknoll priest for 36 years. But if Rome came down with the ax? I’d have to embrace it,” he said.

We should pray for his soul and for his conversion. Evidently his conscience is severely malformed and he is blinded by his own prideful attitude. What a disgrace this is for the order's founders and for our Blessed Mother. The order issued a press release here.

from NCR here