Post Script to Spaghetti Summons

I can almost hear some of you now. "Is the Church ordaining women?" The answer to that question is no. The Church stubbornly maintains that it does not have the authority to do so (see my previous blog entitled "Infallible Teaching"). The Catholic women priests mentioned in "Spaghetti Summons" have been ordained by renegade bishops in secret ceremonies which have usually taken place on water (I suspect so that no Diocese can claim authority over them), e.g., the St. Lawrence Waterway, the Danube River. The ordinations were witnessed and notarized; the records I suspect, are kept in secret. The official position of the Church is that the women, by taking part in the conferring of Holy Orders, public celebrations of the Mass and consecrations of the Eucharist have ex-communicated themselves from the Church. This is always the case in ex-communications; the Church always maintains that people ex-communicate themselves by acting against Church teaching. Now isn't that ironic? The women have separated themselves from the communion of the Church by celebrating Communion!