Junket to Jakarta California womanpriest goes to Indonesia to promote women’s a

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Junket to Jakarta

California womanpriest goes to Indonesia to promote women's and LGBT rights and the female priesthood



California "womanpriest" Victoria Rue has gone to Indonesia to spread the word of women's and homosexual liberation. She said she particularly wants to plant the seed of women's ordination in that country.

Rue, a professor of comparative religion and women's studies at San Jose State University, made something of a news splash in April 2006 with reports of her celebrating Mass on the university's campus.

The reports led the San Jose diocese to issue the following statement: "Victoria Rue is not a validly ordained priest of the Roman Catholic Church. Members of the Roman Catholic Church should not participate in celebrations of the sacraments that are conducted by Victoria Rue, as those celebrations are not in union with the local or universal Church."