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A member of the liturgy committee at a San Francisco parish was “ordained a deacon” on Saturday, June 23, according to the website of Roman Catholic Womenpriests. Participants in such sham ceremonies are automatically excommunicated, but the group has repeatedly rejected the ruling of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith on the subject. The event took place at Trinity Episcopal Church in San Francisco, where Olivia Doko, “bishop” of the Western Region of Roman Catholic Womenpriests, “ordained” Maria Eitz. According to the website of St. John of God Catholic Church in San Francisco, Eitz is a member of the parish’s Liturgy Committee. Now that Eitz has incurred automatic excommunication, it’s up to either Fr. Methodius Kiwale, administrator of the parish, or the Archbishop of San Francisco to determine whether she will be removed from her post on the committee. Much of the direction at St. John of God is supplied by the church’s deacon, Brian Bromberger. The majority of the published sermons on the St. John of God website are his. Bromberger, who previously served at San Francisco’s Most Holy Redeemer Parish, led St. John of God parishioners at San Francisco’s 2011 “Gay Pride” parade. Trinity Episcopal has long provided space to a Roman Catholic Womenpriests group called “Sophia in Trinity” for twice-monthly liturgies led by “Womanpriest” and open lesbian Victoria Rue. Over the past 18 months CalCatholic has published a number of articles documenting the “ordination” of women who serve, or have served, in Catholic parish ministries. Maureen Mancuso, an RCIA instructor at Christ the King parish in Pleasant Hill, was “ordained” a “womandeacon” by Doko on September 18, 2011 in Santa Barbara. “Ordained” as a “womandeacon” during the same event was open lesbian Jennifer O’Malley, who had served on the Ministry to Gay and Lesbian Catholics for the Archdiocese of Los Angeles.
Her biography on the RCWP website notes that O’Malley “previously worked as a Coordinator of Youth ministry at a parish in the archdiocese of Los Angeles and was a program director for a national Catholic service learning program.” According to the Autumn 2011 issue of GLOings, the newsletter of the LA archdiocese’s Ministry to Gay and Lesbian Catholics, O’Malley was one of seven persons receiving the “Lumen Christi” award at the Jesuit Church of the Blessed Sacrament in Hollywood on Oct. 22, 2011 -- after she had been “ordained,” and thereby, excommunicated.
Despite an explicit warning from the Vatican that participation in such sham ordinations results in automatic excommunication
Link (here) to The California Catholic Daily 
1 comment:
I am so unhappy to say that most likely nothing will come of this. I live in the archdiocese in question, and unfortunately we have arguably one of the worst archbishops remaining in office. Everything you pointed out was true; but this same archbishop also gave holy communion to openly gay transvestites who mock holy orders by dressing as nuns. When finally confronted (someone posted a video of this on youtube), his "excuse" was "well...they looked like women, so I was confused." This is the SAME archbishop who waited until after every other bishop in the country rebuked Nancy Pelosi for her publicly errant account of the church's stance on abortion (he was finally shamed into doing so, once again, after numerous calls to his office).
In sum, while extremely sad and unfortunate, this case amounts to just another day in the Gammorah-adjacent that has become the San Francisco archdiocese.
St Catherine of Siena, pray for us.
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