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Roy Bourgois Faces Excommunication

The Vatican threatens the Maryknoll priest for supporting the ordination of female priests.

By George Fish

The Catholic Church is threatening to excommunicate Father Roy Bourgeois for publicly supporting the ordination of women to the priesthood. Bourgeois, who founded the group SOA Watch to dismantle the School of the Americas (SOA) at Ft. Benning, Ga., participated in the Aug. 9, 2008, ordination ceremony of Janice Sevre-Duszynska, an outspoken activist with an international organization that ordains women into… return to article

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