{"id":741,"date":"2009-04-26T22:59:00","date_gmt":"2009-04-26T22:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/deaconsbench\/2009\/04\/pseudo-ordination-updated.html"},"modified":"2009-04-26T22:59:00","modified_gmt":"2009-04-26T22:59:00","slug":"pseudo-ordination-updated","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/deaconsbench\/2009\/04\/pseudo-ordination-updated.html","title":{"rendered":"“Pseudo-ordination”– UPDATED"},"content":{"rendered":"

Well, there they go again.<\/p>\n

A New Jersey woman this weekend took part in a ceremony in which she says she was ordained a Catholic priest.<\/p>\n

From the Newark Star-Ledger<\/a>: <\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>Last July, Mary Ann Schoettly was automatically excommunicated from the Catholic Church after a ceremony that she says made her a deacon — a ceremony conducted in willful defiance of her religion’s ban on ordaining women.<\/p>\n

Today, in the eyes of a small group of renegade Catholics who believe women should be allowed into the Catholic priesthood, the 66-year-old Sussex County resident was ordained a priest, in a controversial ceremony held at a synagogue.<\/p>\n

“It’s a very fulfilling experience,” said Schoettly, a retired high school biology teacher and the 47th female priest associated with the international group Roman Catholic Womenpriests. “It is something that I have recognized in myself for years and haven’t been able to follow.”<\/p>\n

Schoettly (pronounced Shot-lee), who lives in Fredon, is not connected with any Catholic diocese as a priest and will not preach at any diocesan church. She said she plans to celebrate Mass at her home, a three-bedroom ranch, at least once a month for small groups.<\/p>\n

Today’s ceremony was conducted by two women who Roman Catholic Womenpriests believes are bishops but who Vatican officials have said also have been excommunicated.<\/p>\n

Cardinal Justin Regali, archbishop of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Philadelphia, denounced today’s ceremony as a “pseudo-Ordination” that was not genuine and worried that it may confuse Catholics about church teachings. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n

You can read more at the link<\/a>, and see a photo gallery of the ceremony. <\/p>\n

UPDATE:<\/b> Cardinal Rigali has announced that the participants in the ceremony — both the two women claiming to be ordained, and those who claim to have ordained them — are now excommunicated. Read more here<\/a>. <\/p>\n

PHOTO:<\/b> During the ceremony Mary Ann Schoettly, right, experiences the Laying On of Hands by Bishop Andrea Johnson. Photo by Aristide Economopoulos\/The Star-Ledger.<\/i><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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