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“Underground movement”

“Pink Smoke Over the Vatican” coming to Fresno thanks to efforts of two women who back women’s ordination

 

An anti-Catholic film advocating the ordination of women seems to be making the rounds in California. Portions of the film “Pink Smoke Over the Vatican” were shown to students at Convent of the Sacred Heart High School in San Francisco on Feb. 18. Now comes news that the entire film will be shown in Fresno this Saturday.

“Pink Smoke Over the Vatican” is a 2010 film produced and directed by Jules Hart and distributed by Eye Goddess Films. The Eye Goddess Films website describes the film this way: “Pink Smoke Over the Vatican is a documentary film about the controversial movement of women seeking to be ordained as priests in the Roman Catholic Church. On June 3, 2008, The Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, which is the modern name for The Holy Office of the Inquisition, issued a sweeping order of excommunication for ‘the crime of attempting sacred ordination of a woman.’ Pink Smoke Over the Vatican chronicles the events that led up to this severe punishment and tells the stories of the determined women and men who, through the forbidden and illicit path of female ordination, are working to end the underlying misogyny and outdated feudal governance that is slowly destroying the Roman Catholic Church.”

“The Fresno group, Womanspirit Rising, seeks to call attention to the movement through the film, which will be shown at 1 p.m. March 5 at The Oneness Center, 1752 E. Bullard Ave., Suite 106,” the Fresno Bee reports.

"It is a film about social justice and peace on what is currently happening," Clovis resident Jenine Cortopassi and a member of Womanspirit Rising, told the Bee. "It is an underground movement – and it is catching on. It is bringing people up to speed. Most people in Catholic circles aren't aware of it."

“Cortopassi, a member of St. Paul Newman Center and former Fresno Unified substitute teacher, first saw the film in October at the Carmel Art & Film Festival,” the Bee reported.

St. Paul Newman Center is the former parish of Fr. Geoffrey Farrow, a priest removed by former Fresno Bishop John Steinbock and banished from the diocese in October 2010 after Farrow told parishioners to vote against Proposition 8 and confessed on a television newscast to being a homosexual. The parish primarily serves students and faculty at Fresno State University, but its website says it is also open to “all other people who freely choose to be part of our parish family.”

"The social injustice of it came to a head while viewing the film," Cortopassi told the Bee. "The Church is big in social justice – and there was an injustice, at a time we're losing priests. I felt moved to bring it to Fresno."

According to the Bee, “Cortopassi sought the help of Cheryl Biever-Petersen, a former Franciscan nun and St. Paul Newman Center member.” Biever-Peterson, said the newspaper, founded a group called Action Purple Stole in 2002, “a Fresno women's group advocating for the ordination of Catholic women. The group's 12 members attended special Catholic events, symbolically wearing liturgical purple scarves.”

“In 2008, Action Purple Stole co-sponsored a Womanpriest Forum at California State University, Fresno, calling attention to the ordination of Catholic women priests,” the Bee reported. “Less than two years later, Biever-Petersen says the group disbanded, believing it had fulfilled its purpose.”

But after Cortopassi saw “Pink Smoke Over the Vatican,” she persuaded Biever-Petersen to reactivate Action Purple Stole under the name Womanspirit Rising, reported the Bee.

From http://www.calcatholic.com/

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