Ordained and Excommunicated: a Catholic Woman and Her Ordination as a Priest

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Uschi Schäfer was recently ordained a Roman Catholic Women Priests (RCWP), something that should not be allowed in the Catholic Church. In an interview, the theologian from Grafing explains why she is fighting for a just church without discrimination, despite all the consequences—including excommunication.

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Magno Garcimarrero Noticia astounding appeared in 2014, in the Vatican newspaper “La Stampa” reporting that twenty-six (26) women, (“lovers” of two priests, says the translation of the note) made the request to Pope Francis to review the priestly celibacy, which has been obligatorily observed since the Council of Trent in the middle of the 16th century. Already since the 4th century it was held as a priestly condition, although not very well att…