Father Roy Bourgeois recently participated in a ceremony to ordain a woman as a priest, and may be excommunicated as a result. He has written a response to the Catholic Church, which Michael Paulson reproduced at his blog Articles of Faith. It says in part:
As people of faith, we profess that the invitation to the ministry of priesthood comes from God. We profess that God is the Source of life and created men and women of equal stature and dignity. The current Catholic Church doctrine on the ordination of women implies our loving and all-powerful God, Creator of heaven and earth, somehow cannot empower a woman to be a priest.
Women in our Church are telling us that God is calling them to the priesthood. Who are we, as men, to say to women, “Our call is valid, but yours is not.” Who are we to tamper with God’s call?
Sexism, like racism, is a sin. And no matter how hard or how long we may try to justify discrimination, in the end, it is always immoral.
Read the full letter at Articles of Faith, and an article at Slate on what excommunication really means.