ASHEVILLE, N.C. (AP) - A rebel Catholic group has ordained its second woman priest in North Carolina, the first in the 46 counties that constitute the Catholic Diocese of Charlotte.
News outlets report that the Association of Roman Catholic Woman Priests ordained 64-year-old Abigail Eltzroth on Sunday at Asheville’s Jubilee, a nondenominational faith community. The group is opposed to the Roman Catholic Church’s ban on women priests.
Eltzroth, who converted from Presbyterianism in her 50s, plans on starting a Catholic worship community in the Asheville area. The association says in a news release that 250 women in 10 countries have been ordained as Catholic priests, and women serve as priests in 65 “inclusive churches.”
Catholic Diocese of Charlotte spokesman David Hains says Catholics who receive sacrament from a woman priest are sinning.
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