Pope Me the First

Damn... if I'd known you could just change all the rules you don't agree with... maybe I'd still be a Catholic.

-- ST. LOUIS -- The St. Louis Archdiocese has warned two Roman Catholic women that they will be excommunicated if they are ordained as priests on Sunday.

Rose Marie Dunn Hudson, 67, and Elsie Hainz McGrath, 69, are set to be ordained by a former nun as part of the Roman Catholic Womenpriests movement that began in 2002.

"What is he going to do, burn us at the stake?" Hudson asked. "We're going to just totally ignore it."

The Womenpriests and the advocacy group, the Women's Ordination Conference, are among Catholics pressing to change that tradition.

I mean... rules are meant to be broken, right?

Both women said they will ignore Archbishop Raymond Burke's warning.

"It's a typically hierarchical form of intimidation, and we will not be intimidated," McGrath said.

I wonder how they'd handle this in a Muslim country?

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