Tuesday, October 14, 2008

Finnish priest loses appeal over women priests

http://www.religiousintelligence.co.uk/news/?NewsID=3052

[Religious Intelligence] 14 Oct 2008--A court in Finland has rejected an appeal from a priest who was handed down a disciplinary order because he refused to conduct worship together with a female priest.

The priest, Jari Rankine, was chaplain in a parish in Vammala in western Finland, but he refused to take part in two religious services because of the presence of a female priest.

In response, the archdiocese blocked him from serving for three months and forbade him to exercise his ministry.

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