For some journalists, the only good and interesting nun....
... is a former and now dissenting nun:
For Diane Dougherty, it is a way to live up to her calling and to
challenge the hierarchy of the Catholic Church. It is a hierarchy that
Dougherty maintains is sexist. Though not recognized by the Vatican, the
Coweta County resident and longtime former nun will be ordained next
week and will become the first female Catholic priest in Georgia. (www.TheCitizen.com)
An Atlanta woman, a former nun, is
seeking to change the Roman Catholic Church, realizing that what she
will get her excommunicated from the Church. On Saturday Diane Dougherty is going to be ordained as a priest, not
in the Catholic Church, but in an organization called The Association
of Roman Catholic Women Priests. It is an international organization that the Church condemns. (NBC33TV.com)
A former nun is taking a big leap of faith, preparing to become the first female Catholic priest in Georgia. “I've had a calling and I've known since I've been in the seventh grade,” Diane Dougherty told Channel 2’s Sophia Choi. She'll
be ordained this Sunday at Atlanta’s First Metropolitan Community
Church by the Association of Roman Catholic Women Priests. No
Catholic church will have her, as it goes against the religion. Atlanta
Archbishop Wilton D. Gregory said ordaining women “brings division and
fractures unity in the church.” (WSBtv.com)
A metro Atlanta woman is set to be ordained as Georgia's first female
Catholic priest on Saturday. However, the Roman Catholic Church says she
will be excommunicated because the church doesn't recognize women
priests or the ordination service that she will participate in. Diane
Dougherty says that as a former nun and parochial school teacher, she
is very familiar with the rules of the Roman Catholic Church. The
Association of Roman Catholic Women Priests will ordain her. Dougherty
said that she knows she is about to make both history and enemies. (www.MyFOXAtlanta.com)
And so forth and so on. Of course, the Washington Post published Dougherty's story, which is all victimhood and grievances, with at least five references to the heinious evil of "clericalism". I put it in scare quotes because her definition of clericalism is a bit self-serving. And, at times, quite vague. For instance:
What I felt, but did not have words to describe, was the growing politic
of clericalism creeping throughout the South by the strategic
appointment of bishops and priests.
Oh. This statement sheds a bit more light on the matter:
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