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Friday, August 11, 2006

recently "ordained" women now compounding their crimes...

From Canon Lawyer Ed Peters:

The pseudo-ordinations that a number of women around the world, and lately in the United States, have attempted are, to borrow Leo XIII's phrase, "absolutely null and utterly void". Last summer explained how such affronts to divine and canon law can and will result in excommunication, although, as I argued, not by the automatic process that many simply assumed would apply to such cases. Here I need to make a different point.

To no one's great surprise, some of these women have gone on to attempt to celebrate the Eucharist. Canonically speaking, what they have done is to simulate the Mass, which action is a distinct crime under canon law. [More...]

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