Another story from LA.

[formercia]

http://www.nola.com/news/t-p/index.ssf?/base/news-0/122647092423920.xml&coll=1
Vatican might expel activist priest
La. native helped ordain woman, 58
Wednesday, November 12, 2008
By Bruce Nolan

The Rev. Roy Bourgeois, the missionary priest from Lutcher who has devoted his career to opposing U.S. policy in Latin America, appears to be on the brink of excommunication from the Catholic church for participating in a ceremony that purportedly ordained a woman to the priesthood.

Bourgeois, a member of the Maryknoll order, said the Vatican recently gave him 30 days to formally recant his position in favor of women's ordination, or face excommunication.

In a response posted on the Web site of the National Catholic Reporter, an independent newspaper, Bourgeois told the Vatican he could not in conscience do so. He said he believes a call to the priesthood comes from God and it is inappropriate for the church to interfere with it.

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He deserves our support.

[John Q. Citizen]

1. i met him when he spoke to a class I took. He's a good man.

[IndyOp]

2. I drove an hour to get to hear him speak about The School of Americas Watch -

He is a good man. The most amazing moment of the event was when an African woman who had become a nun - Sister Stella - told us that she grew up in Uganda and that, before meeting the Maryknoll missionaries, she and everyone she knew thought that all Americans wanted every African to die. I was stunned. And then I thought about it and understood more about what our corporations and military are doing around the world.

:(

[John Q. Citizen]

5. he spoke to us about the School of the Americas also. And about his time in Bolivia,

After, I asked him a question about Liberation Theology.

One thing he said was (in regards to those who were opposed to Liberation Theology) "What do they favor then, 'subjugation theology'? Theology should be liberating."

While I'm an agnostic I think he had a good point there.

[formercia]

6. No matter what happens

He will not be forgotten.

[bleever]

3. K&R.

Thanks.

[Kajsa]

4. Yes he does!

:applause:

A big :kick: and R.