WTVQ
August 9, 2008
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A Lexington woman goes against centuries of tradition and the Catholic Church to be ordained a priest.
Jane Sevre-Duszynska was publicly ordained Saturday afternoon as a Roman Catholic woman-priest.
Ten years ago, Sevre-Duszynska asked a Lexington bishop to ordain her as priest. He refused. Even so she never gave up her belief she had been called to the ministry.
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Saturday, inside the Unitarian Universalist church, she became the first woman in the South to be ordained by the Roman Catholic woman priest.
The Roman Catholic Church does not recognize Sevre-Duszynska or any of the Roman Catholic women priests.
The Lexington Diocese issued this statement: "The name notwithstanding 'Roman Catholic woman priests' is not an entity of the Roman Catholic Church."
The statement went on to say: "In the Roman Catholic Church only a baptized male is capable of receiving the sacrament of Holy Order validly."
As she participates in sacred rites, she faces the possibility of being permanently estranged from the faith she holds so dear, through excommunication.
The statement from the Lexington Diocese also says any simulation of a sacrament carries very serious penalties within church law and Catholics were urged not to support or participate in the ordination.
Lexington police were on standby outside the church in case of protesters but none showed.
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