I want to be a nun

(just kidding) But I can't. I would have to submit to the Church to
verify the calling. I think they would convince me to find other ways for Joseph to minister
to God's people.

Being Catholic is also a calling that must be verified.

Here are some
folks who can't wait for something. In that there is nothing here to wait
for, they are absolutely right.

Bishops may wag their fingers and threaten excommunication, but Catholic women called to ordination feel their time has come.

These women say they don’t want to abolish the global church; they simply want to reform it.

Those so ordained now minister in a variety of contexts, some informal and others quite traditional, save for lack of approval by church authorities.

“Basically, [that phrase] is exactly how I see myself as a woman priest,” said the Rev. Victoria Rue of Watsonville, Calif., ordained last summer on the St. Lawrence Seaway. “I don’t see myself being other or better or in a higher state than anyone else.”

“I felt it would be good to talk more and maybe to expose the archbishop to some of our ideas about why we are doing this and how much we feel part of the Roman Catholic church and have no intention to leave or bring about a split,” Nicolosi said. “Also the frustration we feel that some of these actions of ours that are done with very good intentions are punished very severely but other actions [such as sexual abuse and its cover-up] are hidden or the church tries to work around it.”

Yup, here's the tie-in. They have good "intentions", but are punished.
Somehow sexual abuse was not punished 40 years ago. Therfore their time has
come.

“Where do we go to be women priests?” asked Rue, who teaches theater and comparative religions and women’s studies at San Jose State University in California.

We go to where the people are, and we identify ourselves as women priests. Not to further the divide between cleric and lay, but to bring people together.” Rue, 58, plans to continue to minister to her house church, and reach out to the local gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgendered community as well as to university students.

O yes! The gender confused to the gender confused.

Lane, who converted to Catholicism at 17, said, “I also think that from the beginning of my call to participate in the church through my baptism, I was called to minister to folks who are exhibiting oppressive behaviors. To be Christian is not to be at the center of society, it is to challenge injustice in whatever form that injustice is manifest, whether it’s racism, sexism, institutional inequality. And I see women’s ordination as yet another inequality that keeps the church from fully realizing itself.”

Dear Abby, the Church does not realize itself.

Nicolosi is clear that she sees herself as a Roman Catholic but wants the church to carry out “what Vatican II has started:

an opening to the world,

greater inclusivity,

more emphasis on the local parish and national churches;

priesthood that would include men and women,

married or not,

also gays and lesbians.”

Sounds like hell.

Noticed on "Tischreden"