Since My Last Confession: A Gay Catholic Memoir by Scott Pomfret

Author:Scott Pomfret [Pomfret, Scott]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Gay & Lesbian, Social Science, Catholic Gay Men, Boston, Religious Aspects, Personal Memoirs, General, Gay Studies, Homosexuality, Religious Life, Massachusetts, Biography & Autobiography, Catholic Church, Biography
ISBN: 9781611455007
Google: bxR8pHF_k_IC
Amazon: 1611455006
Publisher: Arcade Publishing
Published: 2012-07-01T07:00:00+00:00

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Excommunication ‘R’ Us

Priest: Your Eminence, what are we going to do about all these young people living together before they get married?

Cardinal Law: If they put down the same address, presume it’s a duplex, and ask no questions.

— as related by Walter Cuenin

The Vatican Paperwork-Reduction Program

EAN MARCHANTES SISTERS, the first Roman Catholic Womenpriests, were ordained on the Danube in 2002. The following year, on the feast of Mary Magdalene, the Vatican formally excommunicated them in a document signed by the Rat, Additional ordinations followed, culminating in a highly publicized ceremony in Pittsburgh in 2006 in which seventeen North American women became womenpriests and womendeacons. At least two American bishops, Timothy Dolan of Milwaukee and Justin “YouTube” Rigali of Philadelphia, announced that they would forward the names of their local womenpriests to the Vatican for disciplinary proceedings. (No one likes a tattletale, and no one likes a copycat, either: the two bishops’ statements read nearly word for word.)

Most American dioceses, including Boston, set out a slightly different message: there was no need to excommunicate the women formally. They were automatically excommunicated (called a latae sententiae) by virtue of their actions.

The womanpriest movement continues to grow. Five ordination ceremonies, each involving multiple women, took place in North America alone in 2007. If the Vatican insisted on formally excommunicating each of the renegades, it would have to shanghai poor Reverend Amorth from his busy exorcism schedule and put him to work processing excommunication decrees. And then who would keep an eye on Harry Potter?

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