Defying church, 12 Catholic women to be ordained here

I thought I'd blogged about a Roman catholic ordination of women last year on the Danube, but can't now find the post. But here's another taking place in the USA. Of course, the women are automatically excommunicated under the present rules, but it's interesting that they claim the Bishops ordaining them trace back to active RC bishops who did it in secret to avoid reprisals. I read this and wonder if the RC doctrine is that the magisterium expresses the mind of the church, as with the issue of birth control, it seems to me that the mind of their church is probably behind this... at what point do they admit that if they can't convince the faithful of their position, perhaps the Holy Spirit is saying something, particularly when other traditions have positive experience and cogent theological arguments that make sense even in RC terms.
It'll be interesting to watch this.

I found the comments of one of the protagonists very interesting for several of the points made...

I have had a number of women Catholic friends who complete their master's of divinity and then are ordained in other faiths."
The Roman Catholic Church, Ms. Schenk added, has changed more than most people realize.
"Taking interest on a loan -- that used to be the gravest of sins. It was OK to have slaves. Some bishops fought to keep slaves. Eventually, church teaching changed on that. 'The Mass will always be in Latin,' [Pope] Pius XII said. Six years later, it was in English.

The sense of vocation is clearly there, to abandon their church in order to pursue it, they are theologically literate ... and then there's the argumen about changing understandings, well demonstrated from tradition.

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