{"id":4904,"date":"2005-07-24T09:34:23","date_gmt":"2005-07-24T09:34:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/viamedia\/2005\/07\/ordination-time.html"},"modified":"2005-07-24T09:34:23","modified_gmt":"2005-07-24T09:34:23","slug":"ordination-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/viamedia\/2005\/07\/ordination-time.html","title":{"rendered":"Ordination time"},"content":{"rendered":"

…more news stories on tomorrow’s action, many with headlines like this: "Women plan to become Catholic priests."<\/a><\/p>\n

Again….no. That’s not what they’ll be.<\/p>\n

The messed-up ecclesiology isn’t confined to headline writers, who may be partially excused, but to the participants as well<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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A few weeks ago, Harry J. Flynn, archbishop of the St. Paul-Minneapolis Diocese, sent her a letter in which he said the church will not recognize her ordination. <\/p>\n

"He did not tell me not to do it," Nicolosi said. "He did not use the word ‘excommunication.’ He said, ‘Don’t isolate yourself. Don’t leave the family.’ " <\/p>\n

Her response? <\/p>\n

"I wrote back that I am doing this precisely because I want to remain in the family," Nicolosi said. "I could have been an Episcopal priest and then I would have left the family." <\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/blockquote>\n

So what does it take to leave the family, precisely, if this isn’t it?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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