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Janice Sevre-Duszynska, a peace and justice advocate who grew up in a Polish-American family on Milwaukee's south side, will seek to be ordained a priest in a Roman Catholic Womenpriests ceremony at 3 p.m. on Aug. 9 at the Unitarian Universalist Church of Lexington, Ky. Such ordinations, which are considered invalid by the Vatican, have been performed in recent years in North America and Europe by women bishops who claim that they were ordained to the episcopacy by anonymous male bishops in good standing with the church.
Sevre-Duszynska, 58, a grandmother of three and resident of Jessamine County, Ky., faces potential consequences. The Vatican issued a decree earlier this year saying that anyone trying to ordain a woman to the priesthood and any woman attempting to receive the ordination incur automatic excommunication -- a decree the Womenpriest movement does not recognize.
Continued- http://blogs.jsonline.com/faith/archive/2008/07/30/former-milwaukee-woman-risks-excommunication-to-seek-ordination.aspx