Summary
At the risk of ridicule and excommunication, eight women -- including one from McCandless -- chose to buck the tradition of the Catholic Church and were ordained as priests Monday afternoon in a ceremony aboard a Gateway Clipper boat.
Roman Catholic Womenpriests organized the ceremony -- the first by the group in the United States. Throughout the four-hour ceremony, the three presiding bishops and other speakers argued that women deserve the right of priesthood.See the full content of this document
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Women Defy Tradition
The Catholic Church has said it will not recognize the ceremony because of its 2,000-year tradition of an all-male priesthood.
The Pittsburgh Diocese released a...See the full content of this document
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