Bourgeois supporters vigil outside cathedrals across nation

Fr Roy is a great man !! I saw him speak in my hometown of St Augustine, FL at a U.U. building because he was not welcome in my parish ! The church of my birth & my childhood is going backwards ! Everyone who reads this, please support Fr Roy and please join CTA (Call to Action) , ACC (American catholic Council) and Pax Christi, the Church's "unofficial" peace group !

Wow, look at all the young people in these pics! This is the future?

Yes, nine people here, seven there -- that ought to bring the Vatican to its knees.

It appears a significant number of protesters are middle aged or older. Not too many younger folks. This generation will eventually pass away.

The PARADOXES just keep mounting:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/angela-bonavoglia/at-easter-church-expels-...

Where is all the young people? They are in church or getting ready to see Pope Benedict canonize Pope John Paul II who declared authoratively "the church does not have the authority to confer ordination upon women."

Can't Call to Action do better than what we see. It looks like a retirement home village party.

Enough said.

Even if a woman waves her hands over a piece of bread to "consecrate" it, still, it stays bread. No matter how smart or accomplished a woman might be, the ordination of a women is play-acting. Someone who believes that women can consecrate is having a serious faith crisis. This person apparently doesn't care about the real presence of Christ because they are willing to give it up in order to prove some kind of political point, in favor of receiving simply a spiritual communion with normal bread. The pope doesn't have the authority to change the matter of the Eucharist. He's not a magician, and our faith isn't magic, it's real. People who believe this spiritual, magical way stand in unity with anglicans and episcopals, not catholics. Please have some integrity and some concern for your souls and behave with more integrity. Either follow the catholic magisterium, or leave and be anglican/episcopal. Being catholic is not simply a culture you grew up with because of your democratic social justice parents. It's centered in belief in the real presence of Christ in the Eucharist. Go be a good anglican or episcopal. Focus your social justice energies on things are are legitimate and stop whining about the legitimate theological separation between femaleness and maleness. Trust God.

I support Fr. Roy for his courageous stand on women and the priesthood. He is my hero, he has led the fight to close the School of the Assasins where the U.S. Army has trained central and south Americans to rape and slaughter their countrymen! He is a true crusader for human rights, and not even the Vatican can suppress his heroic work! The issue of the church's shabby treatment of women in the church goes back to the seventies--and continues to this day. We are NOT second class citizens.

Its sad taking advantage of the elderly like this, they might not be fully aware of what they are doing, but whoever put them up to this likely is.

I have deep respect and real admiration for Fr Roy in his conscionable commitment for priesthood-alienated women and I support the principle of female equivalency with males in priestly authenticity.

The problem I have is with male exclusive priesthood and the cultural/ theological rationale behind it yet in place. Perhaps a theological updating of priesthood is needed which has the benefit of female input with consideration for updated psychology and the neural/genetic/intelligence equivalency of males and females.

If male-exclusive priesthood is fundamentally flawed in its theology/ psychology, why would women want to be ordained into an inauthentic structure? Before this conundrum gets worked out, I suspect there will need be a new analysis of priesthood in the contemporary context and how males and females can witness wholistically female/male equivalency in the concelebration of Sacraments.

We have seen case after case of priests having committed horrendous crimes against children and youth. All of these priests are men! Doesn't this convey anything to the naysayers against ordaining women? There is major error here and it's hitting the RCC between the eyes! The RCC is in error about the worthiness of women to serve at God's altar - and remember this is GOD's altar and not MEN's! The Holy Spirit is shaking the RCC awake to the wrongness of sub-categorizing and subordinating women as unworthy of priesthood. The challenge is to hear what the Spirit is saying to the Church and for the Church, the people AND the hierarchy, to act accordingly. Not to do so is the sin against the Holy Spirit, the gravest of offenses against God.

Fides,
One correction - the priests who abuse may be men, but they are not REAL men. Real men don't do this. Many of them struggle with feminine identity and homosexuality.