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DETROIT (AP)—Women would
be ordained in the Roman Catholic
Church if there wasn’t so much contu
sion between doctrine and tradition, the
leader of a dissident Catholic group
said Saturday.
Linda Pieczynski, president of Call
to Action, said a group of conserva
tive Roman Catholics meeting 15 miles
away in a Detroit suburb are misguided
in their opposition to several key dis
sident issues.
Call to Action met here through
Sunday showing support for married
priests, women in the priesthood and
popularly elected bishops. Last May,
Bishop Fabian Bruskewitz in Lincoln
excommunicated members of the
prnunanri several other orvaniratinns
Pieczynski said Bruskewitzs’ ex
communication order was good for
membership, attracting 5,000 new
members to the group.
Although excommunication could
affect other Call to Action members,
Pieczynski said dissidents won’t will
ingly leave the church.
“We’re not going anywhere, but
we’re not buying it either,” she said.
“If you leave, you can’t change it.”
She said the group was tiying to be
true to the origins of Christianity.
’We’re not talking about changing
church doctrine,” Pieczynski said, add
ing that allowing only men to be or
dained as priests is a tradition that
needs changing.
But in Sterling Heights, a conser
vative group held its own three-day
weekend conference called “Call to
Holiness,” which was expected to draw
2,000 Catholics. The counter-confer
ence was staged to defend traditional
Catholic church teachings, spokesman
Jay McNally said.
McNally argued it was the dissident
group that was wayward, “especially
on the moral issues.”
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The church does
change and does
adapt. But the Pope
cannot change the
teaching that
women cannot be
ordained.”
Jay McNally
“Call to Holiness” spokesman
He said the dissident group’s
stances on homosexuality, abortion and
birth control run against centuries of
Catholic teachings.
“The church does change and does
adapt. But the Pope cannot change the
teaching that women cannot be or
dained,” McNally said.
About 5,000 people attended the
Call to Action conference. Speakers
included theologian Hans Kung and
dissident French Bishop Jacques
Gaillot.
Call to Action grew out of a na
tional conference held by the church
in Detroit in 1976 as a national advi
sory session on social justice. It points
to national polls that show a majority
of Catholics believe women should be
allowed to be priests and priests should
t>e allowed to marry.
Call to Action, with 18,000 mem
bers, hopes to change traditional think
ing, which Pieczynski said makes no
sense.
“Women in the Catholic tradition
have even been called misbegotten
males,” she said. “That’s been harm
ful to women. The Catholic church is
extremely influential and if it makes a
statement to uphold women’s ordina
tion it will say women are important.”
Pope John Paul II has said the as
pects of women in thepriesthood and
married priests are closed issues.
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