Priest expelled because of woman's ordination, activism

A Roman Catholic priest excommunicated for ordaining a Kentucky woman four years ago now has been kicked out of the religious order to which he has belonged for four decades.

The then-Rev. Roy Bourgeois of Georgia defied Roman Catholic teachings by participating in an August 2008 ordination service at the Unitarian Universalist Church of Lexington, Ky., for Janice Sevre-Duszynska.

"What I'm going through now is the rejection of being kicked out," said Bourgeois, 73, in a phone interview after being informed that he was expelled from the Maryknoll, N.Y.-based Maryknoll Fathers and Brothers.

"But it's just sort of a glimmer of what women in the Catholic church and gays in the Catholic church experience daily."

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