Two Catholic women who participated in a ceremony to be ordained as "womenpriests" last November and a third woman who officiated were served a "declaration of excommunication" March 12 by St. Louis Archbishop Raymond L. Burke.
The women are Rose Marie Dunn Hudson of Festus, Mo., Elsie Hainz McGrath of St. Louis and Patricia Fresen, who now lives in Berg, Germany. Hudson and McGrath were allegedly ordained; Fresen officiated.
They are part of a group called Roman Catholic Womenpriests. Begun in 2002, it claims to have had "womenpriests" ordained every year since then. The ceremony took place Nov. 11 at a synagogue, the Central Reform Congregation in St. Louis' central west end.
The declaration said the three incurred excommunication "by reason of the crime of schism" and it imposed a censure of interdict "for having pertinaciously rejected a definitive truth of the faith after having been admonished by the ordinary." Fresen also was disciplined for "the crime of simulation of the administration of the sacrament of holy orders."
These are no women seeking to serve the church, rather they wish to destroy it though their own selfish desires and blatant disregard for authority. Not only is their communion with the church jeopardized, but their very souls.
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