Maureen Mancuso has always felt compelled to minister for the Roman Catholic Church. Now, she's facing excommunication for what she will do tomorrow (May 11): become the first woman of her faith ordained a priest in Northern California, the California Catholic Daily website reports today (May 10, 2013).
"We feel the call by God, and God for us is a higher authority," she said. "I think the church has to recognize that it does have the power to ordain women, and that women can be woven into the tradition."
Mancuso, 59, of San Ramon, is a member of the Roman Catholic Womenpriests, an international group that says it has ordained about 150 women as priests, bishops, and deacons worldwide. The Catholic Church says the practice goes against the church's official canon, and women who seek the ordinations automatically are expelled from the church.
Mancuso -- who was born in San Francisco and is now a teacher -- attended seminary and earned a master's degree in divinity in 1996 from the Jesuit School of Theology in Berkeley.
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