Some Dissenters Quit the Church But Don't Stop Being Catholic

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By Jeff Diamant
Religion News Service
Saturday, January 20, 2007; Page B09

... The Inclusive Community meets in a small chapel of a Congregational church, has a $16,000 budget, and draws maybe 15 people most Sundays. In those ways, it is similar to most "underground" churches, said Kathleen Kautzer, a professor at Regis College in Weston, Mass ...

Among those couples at the Inclusive Community are Fred and Terry Quinn. Fred Quinn was a Catholic priest in the Archdiocese of Newark when he met his future wife, then a nun with the Caldwell Dominicans, at a labor rally in Jersey City in 1969 ...

In 1998, the Catholic bishop in Rochester was told by the Vatican to remove Callan from Corpus Christi. Callan had blessed gay unions, given women prominent roles at the altar and offered Communion to non-Catholics.

In 1999, Spiritus Christi opened, with Callan as priest. The congregation was made up of 800 people upset by Callan's removal from Corpus Christi. Spiritus now has 1,500 members, said Ramerman, who was Callan's associate pastor at Corpus Christi, in violation of church rules against female priests ...

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/01/19/AR2007011901386.html

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1. Can't bear to call themselves Protestants?

That was the first bunch.

[More Than A Feeling]

2. Catholic Churchs...OF THE FUTURE!

Anyone taking bets on how long it will be before the hierarchy of the church accepts the reforms these communities have implemented? I'll say 500 years.