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(May 13) -- In an ordination ceremony to be held in little over a week in the shadow of the Vatican, Italy will ordain its first female priest, a married woman from Milan.
Maria Vittoria Longhitano, a 35-year-old Sicilian member of a small Catholic breakaway order called the Old Catholics and not recognized by the Vatican, will be ordained by an Anglican church near Rome's Spanish Steps on May 22.
The Italian Old Catholics broke away from the main Catholic Church in the 19th century in a bid to establish a Catholic faith outside the Vatican's authority. It is allied to the broader Old Catholic denomination, which is strongest in German-speaking countries. Old Catholics reject some key Roman Catholic dogma, such as the immaculate conception of the Virgin Mary and the doctrine of papal infallibility, which the Vatican formally adopted in 1871.
"The Vatican never used to take these ecumenical groups seriously, but they've been ordaining women for the past 10 years, and people have begun to pay attention to them," said the Rev. Steve Josoma, a Catholic priest based near Boston. "To have a woman ordained in Rome with all that's going on at the Vatican these days is interesting timing."
Longhitano said she's looking forward to inspiring debate and wants to eradicate "prejudice" within the Catholic Church, which expressly forbids women to become priests.
"My ordination represents a great chance for all women of faith. It means hope. It means giving a push to an important debate between Catholics on the issue of denying women the possibility of fulfilling their vocations and being ordained as ministers," she said.
A spokeswoman for All Saints told the London Times that Longhitano, a deacon within the Old Catholics since last year, is not Anglican and is not being ordained into the Anglican Church. The Old Catholics in Rome use Anglican churches to worship.
The Catholic Church is vehemently opposed to the ordination of woman priests. Pope Benedict XVI has specifically spoken out against it. In 2008, the Vatican issued a decree saying any Roman Catholic women who attempts to be ordained will be excommunicated, along with the bishops who ordained them.
Longhitano's ordination will be carried out by Monsignor Fritz Rene-Muller, a bishop from the Union of Utrecht of Old Catholic Churches, the main group representing the breakaway order.
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