https://www.eastbaytimes.com/2026/10/23/women-priests-catholic-church/?fbclid=IwdGRleAVMgDpleHRuA2FlbQIxMQBwZG9mAWZkaWQWURBowRiyVTXQRHfYvvvUmv0qwpD11XNydGMGYXBwX2lkCjY2Mjg1NjgzNzkAAR7O1x2syd-fWO6K3GxmWVkbZcuF_1AklrTSmmUIZ4I4jjCsNiydYEr-rgx63w_aem_m2GNKDZPdPgOuwNDP8ISOw&utm_campaign=mrf-facebook-eastbaytimes&utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=social&mrfcid=202610246ad9fac1dcb2d12809e98553
"This is What the church needs to be"
"And as the noon hour arrived and Anna Girresch Annie to those who know her held out her hands to be anointed with oil, it felt like all 70-plus people in attendance collectively held their breaths as the ritual neared its culmination.
It came seconds later, when a bishop raised Annie's right hand toward the ceiling and, "with great joy," introduced her as a newly ordained Catholic priest"
"No one seemed bothered that they had just been willing participants in a ceremony the Roman Catholic Church deems a grave sin, or that Annie had just incurred one of its most severe punishments: automatic and immediate excommunication"
"Annie is the latest in a line of women, some 300 in all, scattered across the United States and in at least nine other countries, who in the last two decades have defied the Catholic Church to be ordained as deacons, priests and bishops"
Anyone heard of this movement? I mean, except for maybe the German synod?
"This is What the church needs to be"
"And as the noon hour arrived and Anna Girresch Annie to those who know her held out her hands to be anointed with oil, it felt like all 70-plus people in attendance collectively held their breaths as the ritual neared its culmination.
It came seconds later, when a bishop raised Annie's right hand toward the ceiling and, "with great joy," introduced her as a newly ordained Catholic priest"
"No one seemed bothered that they had just been willing participants in a ceremony the Roman Catholic Church deems a grave sin, or that Annie had just incurred one of its most severe punishments: automatic and immediate excommunication"
"Annie is the latest in a line of women, some 300 in all, scattered across the United States and in at least nine other countries, who in the last two decades have defied the Catholic Church to be ordained as deacons, priests and bishops"
Anyone heard of this movement? I mean, except for maybe the German synod?
