Female ‘Priests’ Secretly Celebrating Catholic Masses

An underground Catholic movement started in 2002 with the secret “ordination” of seven women in Germany. The movement has grown to 250 women globally, despite the Catholic Church's rules barring women from becoming priests. VOA senior Washington correspondent Carolyn Presutti reports.

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[steakfilly]

She’s not a priest. Even if a bishop attempts to ordain a woman as a priest, it is ontologically impossible.

[utgarcesgirl]

She is not a Catholic priest. May God have mercy on her soul for leading others astray.

[antonioramos]

People who treat catholicism like any other philosophy or political ideology end up missing the whole point of it all.

[trosenthal]

It’s not a mass, she‘s not a Priest, she is larping and it’s deeply disrespectful towards our religion. Shame on everybody involved, they should overcome their pride.

[BullSheeper]

They are in fact, not celebrating mass. Just going through the motions. You need to be validly ordained to celebrate and none of these are

[catholicmama]

“Creates a sense that someone is better than someone else?!!!” What about Apostolic Tradition that’s been handed down for 2, 000 years. These people may be celebrating parts of the Liturgy with Female priests but this is not Catholicism.

[paddycotton]

"In persona Christi".This is not Roman Catholic Church. This is modern feminist. This is not Roman Catholic Priest. We have tradition based on our Holy Scriptura.

[anthonyporens]

A "woman priest " does not affirm the true dignity of a woman, and acts an enemy of Jesus Christ and His church and the mission given to Him by His Father. If they persist there may be an eternal separation from God. The truth is before them.

[itabiritomg]

why don´t they move to a religion that allows this instead of trying to subvert catholic rules?

[hu]

It's all about gender ideology. This lobby can't stay just in what matters to them, but also, it makes distortion about Catholic Church teachings. Don't let be taken to mistake. God have mercy on us in on the whole world.

[jgappy]

They can call it a catholic mass, but without the priest its not a catholic mass.

[peebeeeu]

Brian Holdsworth had a very intriguing thought: If you want to call yourself catholic, you need to look at everything trough the catholic lens. These woman are no priests, nor catholic, nor ordinate, nor deaconesses or anything else. They mock the fait. They want to be priests becouse of honor and titles. Nothing is more powerful as Pride

[noboa]

What kind of diabolical movement is this?. I can't believe that there are people following this false movement. Poor women. They need attention.

[ratatoskr]

It's all about pride. They want to be proud to call themselves "priests", the first women "priests". It has nothing to do with serving God. I've seen laywomen with more devotion to God than these "priests".

"women should keep silent in the churches, for they are not allowed to speak, but should be subordinate, as even the law says."
(1 Cor 14:34)

[debonisasarab]

This is not Catholicism. Our Lord Jesus called 12 MEN.

Matthew 10:1-4
Jesus called His twelve followers to Him. He gave them power to put out demons and to heal all kinds of sickness and disease.

[TheGrenadier]

There's no "mass" or "underground clergy" there: they're just ladies playing theatre because they've got nothing better to do, like work.

[yoannitasari]

It's makes me hurts. 💔
I hope they're not Roman Catholicism.

[lukeslaby]

These women are not in good standing with the Catholic Church

[Valerius]

pride is a sin. pride leads to resentment and their resentment at not being able to be priests in this case has led them to commit this sacrilege

[ponchoramirezable]

As a Catholic, we have to read our Bible because there’s no woman can be a priest. She is not a priest.