July 31, 2007
California Catholic Daily
 June, 24, 2007
New York Times Magazine
"Encounter: A Place at the Altar,"
by Jan Jarboe Russell
" On a late winter Sunday in San
Diego, Jane Via, dressed in the traditional garb of a
Roman Catholic priest — a white alb, a gold stole draped
over her narrow shoulders and a green, flowing robe
called a chasuble — led the 100 or so congregants of the
Mary Magdalene Apostle Catholic Community in a forbidden
Mass."
March 2, 2007
UCSD Lecture Series
Becoming a Female Roman Catholic Priest with Jane Via
Jane Via, a deputy
district attorney and former university professor, tells
her remarkable story of how she became ordained as a
Roman Catholic woman priest and her efforts to build a
growing congregation in San Diego. Via was presented by
the Osher Lifelong Learning Institute at UC San Diego.
Sept
30, 2006 "Challenging the Church," CNN.com
“A woman in California defies the
ban on female Catholic priests.
CNN's Karen Wynter reports ”
Sept
13, 2006 KPBS Full Focus
"Local woman becomes
Catholic priest,"
“As a San Diego deputy district
attorney Jane Via is sworn to uphold the law by day but
on her own time, Via is breaking laws of another kind.
Via is one of about 15 women who have flouted Catholic
canon law by joining the priesthood. Since her illicit
ordination, she has held mass at a Catholic church she
co-founded, prompting a rebuke by San Diego’s Bishop
Robert Brom and the threat of excommunication. Via talks
with reporter Amita Sharma about her rebellion against
the Vatican.”
Sept 2006
Call to Action - San Diego County
SPECIAL ORDINATION EDITION of Connections (the
chapter's newsletter)
 Aug
19, 2006 San Diego Union Tribune by Sandi Dolbee
Local Female Priest Vows to Continue
"Jane Via, the San Diego County
woman who was ordained a priest in June by a Catholic
reform movement, will continue to conduct services at
her independent congregation despite facing possible
excommunication from the Roman Catholic Church." ...
Aug 17, 2006
NPR Morning Edition
More than a dozen Roman
Catholic women in the U.S. who claim to have been
ordained as priests during a ceremony on July 31 are now
facing the threat of ex-communication and public
condemnation. Critics say the women are not only
breaking church law, they're undermining the women's
movement in the church.
Aug 16, 2006
KNBC-TV, Los Angeles
"Woman Faces Excommunication For
Breaking Church Law"
"If
women like me don't stand up and do something for women
in the church, no one else is going to," Via told NBC
San Diego. "We've been waiting for the Vatican to this
for 40 years, since the Second Vatican Council. Not only
has nothing happened, but things have gotten
progressively worse for women since.
"
...
Aug 14, 2006
LA Times, 14 August, 2006, by Robin Fields
(reprinted by Chicago Tribune)
"Female priest defies the Catholic Church,"
...
Via called such consequences "unwelcome," but also, in a
sense, liberating. "I was so angry for so long at the
church and church men who weren't willing to make even
the smallest change in language to include women," she
said. "My anger is gone." ...
 Aug 5, 2006
Union-Tribune by Sandi
Dolbee
"Ordination puts women, backers, at
odds with Catholic Church"
"In the packed sanctuary of a rented church in Mission
Hills, a balding man in a short-sleeved shirt stepped up
to the microphone. 'Folks, '
he began, 'I want to
welcome you to the revolution.
'
Then came the
applause" ...
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