If they truely wanted to serve Christ (and if this wasn't an ego thing) they could become nuns.
Catholicgauze | Homepage | 08.11.06 - 2:52 pm | #

They don't want to serve the Church. They want to serve themselves. At least they could go get a BA and MA in theology and make a claim they're qualified to be priests. These women have nothing other than their "feelings".
John J. Simmins | 08.11.06 - 8:29 pm | #

Actually, I read somewhere that this cannon cannot apply to women. Since there is no such thing as a woman priest that it would be impossible to dupe the faithful into believing that it was a real mass. In other words it would be so manifest that it was not a real Eucharist that it would not even constitute "simulation".

I will see if I can find the reference.
Jason | 08.12.06 - 11:06 pm | #

While Jason is looking for that reference, others might want to consider this from the GB&I Comm, 794: "The offence involved here is that of a lay man or woman, or even a deacon, who goes through the rites prescribed for the Mass in an attempt to celebrate the Eucharist, whether publicly or in private." See also CLSA Comm 924-925 and CLSA New Comm 1586.
Ed Peters | Homepage | 08.15.06 - 12:04 am | #

Remember in the "old" Roman Rite, where we would say: "Kyrie Eleison, Kyrie Eleison, Kyrie Eleison. Christe Eleison, Christe Eleison, Christe Eleison. Kyrie Eleison, Kryrie Eleison, Kyrie Eleison"? I think it was a mistake to drop the repetition. How can we ever beg for mercy enough?
Kitty | Homepage | 08.15.06 - 12:42 pm | #