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Published: November 22, 2008
Priest under fire after ordination of woman
From Wire Reports
NEW ORLEANS — A missionary priest from Lutcher, La., appears to be on the brink of excommunication from the Catholic church for participating in a ceremony that purportedly ordained a woman to the priesthood.

The Rev. Roy Bourgeois , a member of the Mary-knoll order, said the Vatican recently gave him 30 days to formally recant his position in favor of women’s ordination or face excommunication.

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