Roy Bourgeois

Challenging The Vatican Old Boys' Network

Bill Quigley | Posted 01.01.2012

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Fr. Roy faces expulsion from his Catholic community, Maryknoll, for refusing to recant his belief that women can and should be allowed to become priests.

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Roy Bourgeois Detained At The Vatican For The Crime Of Primacy Of Conscience

Michele Somerville | Posted 12.20.2011

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I was saddened to learn that the Roman Catholic priest was detained by police as he arrived at the Vatican to deliver a petition signed by 15,000 Catholics in support of him and women's ordination.

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U.S. Priest Who Backs Women's Ordination Detained On Way To Vatican

AP | NICOLE WINFIELD | Posted 12.17.2011

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VATICAN CITY — A U.S. Catholic priest who supports ordination for women was detained briefly by police Monday after marching to the Vatican to p...

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Why We Need Female Spiritual Leaders

Jennifer Armstrong | Posted 10.28.2011

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It's well past time for girls to grow up seeing women in robes up there on the altar, creating a matriarchal lineage to equal the far-too-patriarchal one.

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Rallying Around Father Roy: How Catholics Should Respond To His Impending Dismissal

Marianne T. Duddy-Burke | Posted 10.16.2011

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Too many Catholics face similar dilemmas frequently in their professional, ministerial, and personal lives, and choose the safe path. We have the power to validate Roy's convictions and his continued priesthood.

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Catholic Priest Faces Expulsion For Supporting Women's Ordination

Posted 10.09.2011

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By David Gibson c. 2011 Religion News Service (RNS) A Roman Catholic priest who has campaigned for the ordination of women has been told he will b...

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Papal Critics

Christopher Brauchli | Posted 10.08.2011

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Father Bourgeois is a priest who is a member of the Maryknoll religious order. In 2008 he participated in the ordination of a woman conducted by a group known as the Roman Catholic Womenpriests.

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A Frock Does Not A Priest Make

Michele Somerville | Posted 09.27.2011

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According to the Vatican's own doctrine, it is God who turns men into priests. "Defrocking" Father Roy Bourgeois will not render him any less a priest. The dress does not make the man a priest.

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The Ordination Of Women And The High Calling Of Dissent

Brandon G. Withrow | Posted 11.07.2011

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"How can we as men say our call from God is authentic, but your call as women is not? Who are we to reject God's call of women to the priesthood?"

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At Easter, Church Expels Women's Advocate, Keeps Pedophiles In The Fold

Angela Bonavoglia | Posted 06.21.2011

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Mary's gift to the world is brutally dismissed and diminished by a Church that has declared the fight for her voice, her equality and her empowerment to be a most grave crime.

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Christian Sacrifice And The Unholy Crusade To Defrock Roy Bourgeois

Michele Somerville | Posted 06.05.2011

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What is Father Bourgeois' transgression? Did he travel the world with a pet altar boy in tow? No. He committed a truly grave sin. One the Vatican deems intolerable.

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Excommunicated Priest Now Faces Expulsion

Posted 05.31.2011

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By Bruce Nolan Religion News Service NEW ORLEANS -- The Rev. Roy Bourgeois, the Louisiana native and peace activist who was excommunicated three year...

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Archbishop Dolan Has 'No Comment' On NYC Visit Of Excommunicated Priest

Angela Bonavoglia | Posted 05.25.2011

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Since Father Roy will be in Archbishop Timothy Dolan's own backyard, I thought a comment was in order.

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Church Threatens to Excommunicate Father Roy Bourgeois, Founder of the School of the Americas Watch

Rabbi Michael Lerner | Posted 11.17.2011

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What do we do if one of our religious communities is directly involved in racist, sexist, homophobic, or anti-Semitic doings?

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