Out of order: An Ontario priest's excommunication for forming a church that ordains women is being felt in Rome and beyond:

"Out of order: An Ontario priest's excommunication for forming a church that ordains women is being felt in Rome and beyond

Anne Marie Owens, National Post
Published: Saturday, April 22, 2006
This is a story about two men, co-workers in a large international organization, who have each decided to stand by their principles and suffer the ensuing fallout.
One man, 56, has lost his job, his salary, his home, and has been formally ostracized from the community which he has called home for two decades and which he still professes to love deeply.
The other man is his 67-year-old boss, who may become the fall guy for upholding the wishes of the organization for which he has worked for most of his life and whose rules he champions with dedication and a passion.
It is a story about the dilemma facing the modern-day Roman Catholic church, and how the clash between two strong-minded, deeply devout men -- a priest and a bishop -- has repercussions being felt far beyond the small Ontario community in which they live and work and pray.
When Rev. Ed Cachia says mass tomorrow in a modest memorial hall in Cold Spring, near Peterborough, Ont., it will be his third service as an excommunicated priest, disciplined by Bishop Nicola De Angelis for a stance on the ordination of women that has been labelled as heretical and schismatic by one side, reformist or courageous by the other."


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