The headline reads "Milwaukee priest, 92, sanctioned for Mass with woman" which is of course a lie. If priests were sectioned for Mass with women present, they'd all be sanctioned.
A 92-year-old Milwaukee Jesuit is the latest American priest to be sanctioned for celebrating the Catholic Mass with a woman priest[oooh, now we find out it has something to do with theology] in violation of church teaching.
Father Bill Brennan, a longtime peace activist, has been ordered not to celebrate the Eucharist or other sacraments publicly, or to present himself publicly as a priest by the Archdiocese of Milwaukee and his religious order, the Society of Jesus. [I know i shouldn't be impressed but I am]
It comes three weeks after Brennan celebrated Mass with Milwaukee native the Rev. Janice Sevre-Duszynska during an annual protest at what was historically known as the School of the Americas at Fort Benning near Columbus, Ga.
And it follows the excommunication and defrocking of School of the Americas Watch founder Father Roy Bourgeois, a Maryknoll priest who participated in Sevre-Duszynska's 2008 ordination in Lexington, Ky. (The former School of the Americas is now called the Western Hemisphere Institute for Security Cooperation.)
Brennan, who remains a priest and lives with other retired Jesuits in a Wauwatosa retirement home, said he knew he risked censure when he celebrated the sacrament with a woman priest.
"Sometimes in our lives we have to trust our conscience and bring about the consequences," said Brennan, a Wauwatosa native who taught at Marquette University High School beginning in 1968 and spent 17 years working in Latin America.
continue at JS
Ms. Johnson goes on to state that the existing 2000 year practice of priestly ordination is "highly controversial." That's just silly. Out of all the doctrinal problems within the Church, this one is the laughing stock. The pope himself said not that he won't change it, but that he can't. How much less controversial could it possibly be? I mean, look at the picture. We are supposed to take these people seriously?
Update: Wowza, just saw
this at TPE
"Father Brennan said he plans to make it again next summer. 'I'm going
to go with the next caravan,' he said. 'My goal is to have an ecumenical
service at the tomb of Che Guevara. ...'"
It's official. The man is a lunatic.
