Article: Breakaway parish ordains woman priest: Bishop says ceremony seals schism between congregation, catholic church. (Nation).

To rousing gospel music and the acclaim of approximately 3,000 people, Mary Anne Whitfield Ramerman was ordained a priest of a breakaway Catholic church here Nov. 17. While Roman Catholic Bishop Matthew Clark called Ramerman's ordination "a public and formally schismatic act" and asked Roman Catholic clergy not to attend, some advocates of women's ordination hailed it as a step forward for the cause of women priests.

Ordaining Ramerman was Bishop Peter Hickman of the Old Catholic church, which claims a common root with the Roman Catholic church. The Old Catholic church derives from the 1870s, when the First Vatican Council defined the doctrine of papal ...

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