Dressed in a white robe with a rainbow stole, the 68-year-old Frenchwoman acknowledged her ordination was unauthorized by the Vatican, where a month-long summit on the future of the Church concludes next week.
Bridget Mary Meehan , an American"bishop", leads a secret ordination of women ceremony on a barge on the river Tiber in Rome, on October 17, 2024. With bible readings, hymns, etc, the three-language ceremony, organized with the utmost discretion in the presence of some 50 faithful from several countries, followed the same liturgy as an official mass.
“For 22 years, we have worked hard to create a more inclusive, loving church where LGBTQ, divorced and remarried —everyone—is welcome at the table. No-one is excluded,” said Meehan, 76. The groups—occasionally supported by theologians—condemn the way women are marginalized by the patriarchal system, despite their central role in parishes around the world.
The agenda of the Synod summit in October 2023 included a proposal to admit women as deacons—ministers who can celebrate baptisms, marriages and funerals but not mass.The pope, 87, himself excluded it during a CBS television interview in May, to the astonishment of activists. Since becoming pontiff in 2013, Pope Francis has repeatedly stressed the merits of women, including in September, when he declared: “The Church is a woman!”
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