But, please, don’t call yourself a Catholic when you obviously aren’t.
Tomorrow afternoon, Bridget Mary Meehan, a nun and former television producer from Falls Church, will be ordained as a Roman Catholic priest. At least that’s how she sees it.
Meehan, 58, is among 12 American women who will board a chartered boat at 3 p.m. at Gateway Clipper dock in Pittsburgh and shove off for a floating ordination ceremony — the first in the United States since an international group of women’s ordination activists formed four years ago. The group has held five ceremonies in Europe and Canada and counts five female bishops and 40 priests and deacons. In the pipeline are 120 students, 80 of whom are American.
Since a true ordination requires the presence of a properly ordained Bishop these “ordinations” are, of course, meaningless. And if these people want to pretend they’re priests, that’s fine.
I get annoyed, though, at caferia Catholics like this who think its okay to change the Church to suit their needs. Don’t like the rules ? Fine, that’s you’re right. Don’t expect at 2,000 year old institution to change just to make you happy, though.
