Vatican to priest: Recant on women clergy
Photo credit: AP | The Rev. Roy Bourgeois sits in a police car after being detained in Rome last year. Bourgeois' advocacy of women priests has resulted in his excommunication by the Vatican, which has ordered him to recant his views and public statements about women priests or face "laicization" -- being returned to the state of layperson. (Oct. 17, 2011)
The Rev. Roy Bourgeois publicly backs the ordination of women as Roman Catholic priests and even took part in a ceremony doing so. Now, the Vatican is threatening to have him removed from the priesthood and his Westchester-based order, Maryknoll.
Bourgeois, who is coming to Huntington on Sunday for a film about women priests and a chance to air his views, says he's simply following his conscience.
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