Farewell to Roman Catholicism
Dear Blog Visitors: For those of you who have followed my religious journey over many years, any type of announcement that points to my no longer being a Roman Catholic should not be a surprise. For over twenty years, I have tried to work within the institutional church for two primary changes in its policies, inclusive of the need for an inclusive clergy and ending what amounts to sexism. When I became an ordained married priest, via an ordained married archbishop and a supportive independent Catholic community, my relationship with the institutional Roman Catholic Church became somewhat severed. Due to the fact that my ordination was covered by the international media, the Vatican felt it necessary to respond. Therefore, a Vatican spokesperson simply stated that my ordination was “valid, but illicit.” In the legal language of the church, this simply means that since my ordination followed the official Roman rites, and due to the fact I was ordaine...