Senin, 17 Oktober 2011

Activist U.S. priest arrested at Vatican

A Roman Catholic priest from Georgia who is on the border of banishment from his religious adjustment for advocating for women’s allotment was arrested alfresco the Vatican on Monday (Oct. 17) and answerable with demonstrating after a permit.The Rev. Roy Bourgeois marched up Rome’s Via della Conciliazione with a accumulation of about 15 supporters, including three women dressed in apostolic vestments. The accumulation was headed to the Vatican to bear a address active by 15,000 Bourgeois supporters.The accumulation was chock-full by Italian and Vatican badge on the bend of St. Peter’s Square. Italian badge confiscated the group’s banners and arrested Bourgeois and two supporters. The three were captivated for two hours and answerable with demonstrating after a permit, said one of the women arrested, Miriam Duignan, of the group.Bourgeois incurred automated excommunication from the abbey in 2008 back he alternate in a commemoration in Kentucky purporting to anoint a woman as a Catholic priest. At the aforementioned time, a action began that could aftereffect in Bourgeois’ affected “laicization,” or actuality bare of the priesthood and expelled from the Maryknoll order.

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