Priest won’t stop push for women’s ordination

The Roman Catholic priest who faces expulsion from the priesthood and
his religious order for advocating for women priests is refusing to
recant and has hired a church lawyer.

"What they're asking me to
do is lie," Roy Bourgeois said in an interview on August 9 from his home
in Columbus, Georgia. "To say I don't believe God calls women to the
priesthood as well as men—I cannot do that."

In 2008 Bourgeois
participated in a ceremony in Kentucky purporting to ordain Janice
Sevre-Duszynska as a Catholic priest. The church said it was without
effect, but that Bourgeois nonetheless incurred automatic
excommunication by participating. That means he is cut off from the
sacraments, although he remains a priest.