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Is it Right to Intentionally Lie Because the Church Says to? The Case of Fr. RoysAssertion of Conscience Over Vaticans Mandate to Lie By Michele Stopera Freyhauf

August 10, 2011tags: Catholic Church, Fr. Roy Bourgeois, Maryknoll, Michele Stopera Freyhauf, Vatican, Women

s Ordinationby Michele Stopera Freyhauf

Fr. Roy Bourgeois has many titles: Nobel Peace Prize winner, purple heart recipient, former missionary, member of the Maryknoll Fathers for 44 years, and ordained priest for 38 years. He has long been associated with social justice and helping the oppressed and marginalized. He was a peace activist during the VietnamWar and founded the School of Americas Watch. He is found often marching and p

rotesting in front of the School of Americas (now WHINSEC ), a terror training camp at Ft. Benning where soldiers are trained in devices of torture. This is where soldiers that were members of the death squads that existed in Latin America, especially in El Salvadorwere trained. This is also where the soldiers who killed the Jesuits, their maid, and her child as well as Monsignor Romero were trained.

Fr. Roy is and continues to be an important activist for peace and justice and achampion for the poor. At the risk of being defrocked, Fr. Roy is also an advocate on behalf of another oppressed group women in the Catholic Church. Fr. Roy, through his actions, is now among the group of the oppressed and stands in punishment of a crime considered delicta gravioria by the Vatican. The brevity of his crime defined as delicta gravioria is shared with other offenders such as John Geoghan, John Birmingham, Paul Desilets, Robert V. Gale, and others found guiltyof pedophilia in the Sex Abuse Scandal that rocked the United States. However Fr. Roys crime is not pedophilia; it is the public support of ordaining women.