Yikes: a "womanpriest" in my own backyard!

Fr. Joe introduces the situation to us:

Given my affection for Dorothy Day, this is a hard post to write. I was always afraid that the radicalism of The Catholic Worker movement might one day target the Church in such a way that it would sever its ties.

It looks like this will happen TONIGHT (September 5, 2008) at 7:30 PM. The so-called Roman Catholic “Womanpriest” Janice Sevre-Duszynska, who recently attempted ordination, will offer her first invalid and illicit Mass at the Dorothy Day Catholic Worker House in Northwest Washington, DC.

... The Archdiocese of Washington contacted members by telephone and in writing, stressing the incompatibility of the event with Catholic teaching and practice. However, they refused to cancel the event although it will probably forfeit their status as an approved Catholic organization.

Here's a picture ...

{update: actually, as a couple people point out, it's actually the red-headed woman:}

More details:

• Janice Sevre-Duszynska was "ordained" on July 31, 2006 in Pittsburgh through "Roman Catholic Womenpriests", the first event of its kind in the United States (source)
• The "RCW" website says she "writes essays, poetry, and plays, rides horses, keeps a lovely English cottage garden..." in addition to being the "co-chair of the Ministry of Irritation of the Women's Ordination Conference, the oldest and largest organization working for ordination of a renewed priestly ministry in the Catholic Church."
• The blog of the Dorothy Day Catholic Worker House advertises the simulated sacrament
• The MCITL blog decries "the heinous manner in which Dorothy Day's name is being dragged in the mire of disobedience and scandal."

The WDTPRS blog, meanwhile, has a scan of Archbishop Donald Wuerl's notice which lets "priests know that there won’t be a meeting with Christ in an upcoming [womenpriest] 'mass.'"

For myself, I'll be travelling the opposite direction, to a gathering of young Catholic professionals.