VATICAN CITY — The Vatican Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith Jan. 27 upheld the excommunication of seven women, one of them an American, ordained priests by a bishop who has broken with the Catholic church.
Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger, prefect of the congregation, said some of the women have aggravated their offense by attempting to function as priests, “gathering around them members of the faithful, in open and divisive disobedience to the Roman pontiff and diocesan bishops.”
Christine Mayr-Lumetzberger, Adelinde Roitinger, Gisela Forster, Iris Muller, Ida Raming, Pia Brunner and Dagmar Braun Celeste, a former first lady of Ohio, were ordained June 29 in a ceremony on the Danube River conducted by Argentine Bishop Romulo Antonio Braschi.
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