Santa Cruz woman seeks Catholic priesthood

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By Shanna Mccord, Santa Cruz Sentinel,
Posted: 01/21/2014 08:18:08 AM PST | Updated: a day ago

SANTA CRUZ -- A documentary that explores the controversial movement of women becoming priests in the patriarchal Roman Catholic Church will play in Santa Cruz on Feb. 2 during a screening at Peace United Church.

"Pink Smoke" tells the stories of several women who have risen up against the long-held Catholic church rule that prohibits female priests and how they've been automatically excommunicated from the church they love for their efforts in achieving gender equality.

After the film, there will be a discussion with Father Roy Bourgeois, a priest of 40 years who was dismissed for his support of ordaining women.

"The Vatican and Maryknoll can dismiss me, but they cannot dismiss the issue of gender equality in the Catholic Church," Bourgeois wrote in November 2012. "The demand for gender equality is rooted in justice and dignity and will not go away."

http://www.mercurynews.com/entertainment/ci_24956239/santa-cruz-woman-seeks-catholic-priesthood

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1. The Vatican proclaims the equality of men and women

But when push comes to shove, they actually act as if women are inferior to men. "All animals are equal, but some are more equal than others" comes to mind.

Pope John Paul II, in his Mulieris Dignitatem -- "On the Dignity of Women", says "In calling only men as his Apostles, Christ acted in a completely free and sovereign manner. In doing so, he exercised the same freedom with which, in all his behaviour, he emphasized the dignity and the vocation of women". Did he really believe that refusing to ordain women emphasizes their dignity. The man was not only sexist, but blind in his sexism