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Three Women Priests in Minnesota

7/8/2015

 
From Minneapolis St. Paul magazine - Called Out: The Vatican is doling out its harshest punishment to some of Minnesota’s most devoted Catholics. by Dara Moskowitz Grumdahl.

The stories of three Women Priests in Minnesota…
On May 17, Josie Petermeier took to the altar to be ordained as a Catholic priest. As ceremonies go, it was uneventful. Her small congregation gathered where it always does, in a modest Craftsman-style Methodist church below the Witch’s Hat Tower in Prospect Park, to watch Petermeier receive the sacrament of Holy Orders from a bishop who flew in from Indiana.

As Petermeier took part in a tradition said to trace an unbroken line to the original apostles, she promised to carry out the work of Christ on Earth. At that moment, she was excommunicated from the church. By order of the pope, she no longer can be buried in sacred ground. She cannot go to confession or receive the Eucharist.  continue

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