The Alice's Restaurant Anti-Excommunication Movement
We were skimming posts in Google Blogsearch looking to catch up on women's ordination and reading about the Anglican women bishop controversies in England, when we discovered a post by The Timman of Saint Louis Catholic. The Timman quoted an article by John A. Colvin of the Advocate River parishes bureau where in John stated; "A Lutcher-born Catholic priest facing excommunication from the Roman Catholic Church for his public stance advocating ordination of women priests has recently received the support of 113 nuns."
Oh, my! 133 nuns! That's nearly every nun in the U.S., isn't it? Many Catholics and non-Catholics would have you think so. Let's check.
The United States Conference of Catholic Bishops, the official organization of the Catholic hierarchy in the US, reports in their statistics there are 63,032 vowed religious sisters in the U.S.. According to my calculator, dividing 113 by 63,032 and rounding up (let's be charitable), 113 is .2% of all vowed religious sisters.
Thus, Roy has not received the support of 99.8% of vowed religious sisters. Significant? We think so.
To paraphrase Arlo Guthrie about Father Roy's .2% support:
"Friends they may thinks it's a movement! And that's what it is, the Alice's Restaurant anti-excommunication movement, and all you got to do to join is sing it the next time it come's around on the guitar. With feeling."
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Oh, my! 133 nuns! That's nearly every nun in the U.S., isn't it? Many Catholics and non-Catholics would have you think so. Let's check.
The United States Conference of Catholic Bishops, the official organization of the Catholic hierarchy in the US, reports in their statistics there are 63,032 vowed religious sisters in the U.S.. According to my calculator, dividing 113 by 63,032 and rounding up (let's be charitable), 113 is .2% of all vowed religious sisters.
Thus, Roy has not received the support of 99.8% of vowed religious sisters. Significant? We think so.
To paraphrase Arlo Guthrie about Father Roy's .2% support:
"Friends they may thinks it's a movement! And that's what it is, the Alice's Restaurant anti-excommunication movement, and all you got to do to join is sing it the next time it come's around on the guitar. With feeling."
Related Posts:
One God in Four Persons
Womenpriests Excommunicated
Ordination Prayer for Women Deacons Differs
Source: Here's a Surprise
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