S.F. priest leaving over attending women’s ordination conference
Catholic priest will no longer be allowed to stand at the pulpit in San Francisco after attending a conference over the weekend advocating the ordination of women.
The Rev. Jack McClure will conduct his final Mass at the Most Holy Redeemer parish in the Castro on Sunday, archdiocese officials said.
There is some dispute about the particular sequence of events, and whether McClure’s resignation was voluntary or forced. But the two sides agree he is no longer welcome to perform priestly duties in San Francisco because he attended the conference.
“His pastor said it was a bad idea; don’t go to the conference,” said Mike Brown, archdiocese spokesman. “He told his pastor, ‘I’ve got to go.’”
McClure attended the Women’s Ordination Worldwide conference in Philadelphia, participating on a panel called “Break the Silence,” appearing with excommunicated or otherwise outcast priests.
http://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/S-F-priest-sanctioned-for-attending-women-s-6525428.php
As for the idea of women as priests, he said, “I don’t think they would probably do a very good job of it. But I would be willing to give them 2,000 years to try it, because we really haven’t done all that well all the time either.”
= new reply since forum marked as read
