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| Kate Kelly founder of "Ordain Women" holds two tickets to the all male priesthood session at the 184th annual general conference of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints on April 5, 2014 in Salt Lake City, Utah |
The Mormon
church has ex-communicated the founder of a prominent women's group for
"conduct contrary" to its laws and order, according to an email cited
Monday by the woman involved.
Kate Kelly,
a founder of Ordain Women, said in a blog that she had been informed of her
ouster after an all-male panel held a disciplinary trial over her case on
Sunday.
The panel
convicted her of the charge of apostasy, she said, and has decided to
excommunicate her, the most serious punishment that can be levied by a church
court.
Kelly, who
has campaigned for greater female roles in the church, did not attend the
hearing, instead holding a vigil in Salt Lake City in Utah, the home of the
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
"Our
determination is that you be excommunicated for conduct contrary to the laws
and order of the church," Bishop Mark Harrison, Kelly's former
ecclesiastical leader in Virginia, told her in an email.
The
penalties include being banned from wearing temple garments, taking the
sacrament, holding a church calling, giving a talk in church, offering a public
prayer in church or voting for church officers, it said.
To be
allowed back in to the church she must "show true repentance and
satisfy" various conditions, it added.
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Over 20,000
Mormons attend the 184th annual general conference of The
Church of Jesus Christ
of Latter Day Saints, Mormons, on April 5, 2014 in
Salt Lake City, Utah.
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"In
order to be considered for readmission you will need to demonstrate over a
period of time that you have stopped teachings and actions that undermine the
church, its leaders, and the doctrine of the priesthood," it said.
In addition
"you must stop trying to gain a following for yourself or your cause and
taking actions that could lead others away from the church."
Kelly said:
"The decision to force me outside my congregation and community is
exceptionally painful.
"Today
is a tragic day for my family and me as we process the many ways this will
impact us, both in this life and in the eternities. I love the gospel and the
courage of its people.
"Don't
leave. Stay, and make things better."
Representatives
of the church did not immediately respond to a request for comment on the case.
"The Recalibration of Awareness – Apr 20/21, 2012 (Kryon channeled by Lee Carroll) (Subjects: Old Energy, Recalibration Lectures, God / Creator, Religions/Spiritual systems (Catholic Church, Priests/Nun’s, Worship, John Paul Pope, Women in the Church otherwise church will go, Current Pope won’t do it), Middle East, Jews, Governments will change (Internet, Media, Democracies, Dictators, North Korea, Nations voted at once), Integrity (Businesses, Tobacco Companies, Bankers/ Financial Institutes, Pharmaceutical company to collapse), Illuminati (Started in Greece, with Shipping, Financial markets, Stock markets, Pharmaceutical money (fund to build Africa, to develop)), Shift of Human Consciousness, (Old) Souls, Women, Masters to/already come back, Global Unity.... etc.) - (Text version)
“… I gave you a channelling years ago when Pope John Paul was alive. John Paul loved Mary, the mother. Had John Paul survived another 10 years, he would have done what the next Pope [The one after the current one, Benedict XVI] will do, and that is to bring women into the Church. This Pope you have now [Benedict XVI] won't be here long.* The next Pope will be the one who has to change the rules, should he survive. If he doesn't, it will be the one after that.
There it a large struggle within the Church, even right now, and great dissention, for it knows that it is not giving what humanity wants. The doctrine is not current to the puzzles of life. The answer will be to create a better balance between the feminine and masculine, and the new Pope, or the one after that, will try to allow women to be in the higher echelon of the Church structure to assist the priests.
It will be suggested to let women participate in services, doing things women did not do before. This graduates them within church law to an equality with priests, but doesn't actually let them become priests just yet. However, don't be surprised if this begins in another way, and instead gives priests the ability to marry. This will bring the feminine into the church in other ways. It will eventually happen and has to happen. If it does not, it will be the end of the Catholic Church, for humanity will not sustain a spiritual belief system that is out of balance with the love of God and also out of balance with intuitive Human awareness. …”
There it a large struggle within the Church, even right now, and great dissention, for it knows that it is not giving what humanity wants. The doctrine is not current to the puzzles of life. The answer will be to create a better balance between the feminine and masculine, and the new Pope, or the one after that, will try to allow women to be in the higher echelon of the Church structure to assist the priests.
It will be suggested to let women participate in services, doing things women did not do before. This graduates them within church law to an equality with priests, but doesn't actually let them become priests just yet. However, don't be surprised if this begins in another way, and instead gives priests the ability to marry. This will bring the feminine into the church in other ways. It will eventually happen and has to happen. If it does not, it will be the end of the Catholic Church, for humanity will not sustain a spiritual belief system that is out of balance with the love of God and also out of balance with intuitive Human awareness. …”
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