Addressing a gathering for former Boston Archdiocese staffer, Jean Marchant, who says she was "ordained" four years ago, Fr Roy Bourgeois slammed the Church's failure to ordain women as a "scandal" and "spiritual violence"."I will not be silenced on this issue," Fr Bourgeois told the gathering, the Boston Globe reports.
Fr Bourgeois told the paper that he remained unclear about his own status because he has had no formal communication from his order, the Maryknoll Fathers, or from the Vatican, which last fall told him he would face excommunication if he did not recant.
"If they choose to kick me out of the church because I believe that men and women are equal, so be it,'' Bourgeois said. "I will never be at peace being in any organization that would exclude others.
"What's going on in our church today is spiritual assassination, it's spiritual violence being done that's inexcusable. That is a scandal,' he said.
Fr, Bourgeois, 70, also told the Boston Globe that he has stopped wearing a clerical collar and celebrating the Eucharist and other sacraments out of respect for the church's view that he has been excommunicated.
But, he also said at one point, simply, "I am a priest.''
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