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Male Supremacy in the Catholic Church: An Insider's View Paperback – April 12, 2022

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The Roman Catholic Church is in a major crisis. At the core of this crisis is male supremacy—men who dominate the church and view themselves as superior to women.
An all-loving God created everyone of equal worth and dignity. There are no exceptions!
This memoir, written by a Catholic priest for forty years, addresses the injustice of male supremacy, sexism and the spiritual abuse of women in the Catholic Church.

Roy Bourgeois grew up in a small town in Louisiana. After graduating from college, he spent four years in the military and received the Purple Heart in Vietnam.
Leaving the military, he became a Catholic priest with the Maryknoll missionary order. He worked with the poor of Bolivia for five years before being expelled by the military dictatorship.
Returning to the United States, he founded the School of the Americas (SOA) Watch, a grassroots movement that addresses U.S. foreign policy in Latin America. In 2010, he was nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize.
In 2012, he was expelled from the priesthood because of his public support for the ordination of women in the Roman Catholic Church.
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  • ASIN ‏ : ‎ B09YDVCK47
  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Independently published (April 12, 2022)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Paperback ‏ : ‎ 113 pages
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 979-8436033976
  • Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 6.4 ounces
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 6 x 0.27 x 9 inches
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A native of Lutcher, Louisiana, Roy Bourgeois is an American human rights activist, a former Catholic Priest, and the founder of the School of the Americas Watch movement. He is the 1994 recipient of the Gandhi Peace Award and the 2011 recipient of the American Peace Award. Roy was nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize in 2009. Roy was canonically dismissed from the priesthood in 2012 because of his public support for women's ordination in the Catholic Church.

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  • Diane Dougherty
    5.0 out of 5 stars Male Supremacy-an invasive species in American culture-most particularly in the Catholic Church
    Reviewed in the United States on May 15, 2022
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    For the most part, male supremacy is like the air we breath, the water we drink and the clothes we put on daily-it is an everyday aspect of American Life. Roy Bourgeois skillfully outlines his experience from his early years in Louisiana to his awareness of a world outside of male supremacy. What he did not plan on was that his awareness and open critique of the church and its changeable positions and policies would catapult his"elimination" from the very structures that raised and nurtured his 40 year vocation. As he undid the chains of supremacy that bound him, the Powers that be ousted him from doing further damage to an institution intent on maintaining its position of power over people.

    He is correct that ignorance, cruelty and the heresy of church teaching is the DNA that brings this illness from one generation to the next...the remedy being a movement away from the tentacles of supremacy for all the baptized. Until those bonds are released, ordained male supremacists will continue to lead people toward the worship of golden calves. Roy chronicles his difficult and heart wrenching journey toward freedom, finding hope and peace beyond those old notions. All Catholics, clergy and lay should read his journey and follow suite. Consider buying a copy for your priest and Bishop. And, reflect on your own experience of male supremacy within the church and your movement away from it. Write your own book!
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  • Bridget Mary Meehan
    5.0 out of 5 stars Male Supremacy in the Catholic Church is an offense against all God's people
    Reviewed in the United States on May 16, 2022
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    This book, written by Roy Bourgeois, a courageous priest, who risked everything to support the equality of women in the Roman Catholic Church should be mandatory reading for all seminarians in the world.
    Roy shares his inspirational journey of 40 years of faithful service to God's people and his witness for social justice in Latin America as well as his decision to attend the ordination of Janice Sevre-Duszynska in Lexington, Kentucky. I will never forget his moving homily. He put everything on the line for gender equality in the Roman Catholic Church. Like the prophets of old, he stirred the hornet's nest of male supremacy and the Vatican responded by expelling him from the priesthood in 2012.The RC hierarchy did not punish pedophile priests by removing them , but rather reassigning them.
    Pope Francis should apologize to Roy for the Vatican's vindictive treatment and to women priests whom they have excommunicated, male priests they have expelled from the priesthood, religious women they have fired from their jobs in religious institutions.
    This sexist prohibition of Ordination of women is an example of misogyny and of spiritual abuse.
    Thanks, Roy, for your courage and witness to the example of Jesus who called women and men to be disciples and who never ordained anyone!
    Bridget Mary Meehan
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  • Frank
    5.0 out of 5 stars THE TIME HAS COME
    Reviewed in the United States on September 13, 2023
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    This book should be read by all Catholics. The evidence Fr Roy presents is irrefutable. Thanks to him for his courage. As a “recovering Catholic” I have discovered the reasonableness and humanity of the Episcopal Church which has been ordaining women to the priesthood for nearly 50 years. Check them out.
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  • Debra Hannula
    5.0 out of 5 stars A Roman Catholic priest advocates for the ordination of women
    Reviewed in the United States on May 5, 2022
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    Roy Bourgeois was a Roman Catholic priest for forty years until he spoke out against the Catholic Church's teachings that only men can be priests. For that action alone, he was excommunicated. Bourgeois's memoir tells his journey from Vietnam soldier to Catholic missionary priest, from wanting to fight communism to wanting to eliminate suffering. He became a human rights advocate, spending four years in prison for acts of civil disobedience. The Church stood by him until he became an advocate for women's ordination. This is an exceptionally well-written memoir by an extraordinary man. I highly recommend it.
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  • John Alexander Gomez Mahecha
    5.0 out of 5 stars Great Discussion offering a whole new perspective
    Reviewed in the United States on December 27, 2022
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    Dr. Bourgeois's memoir is incredible. His story is admirable, but his firm and persuasive conviction on women's priesthood is very touching. As a Catholic that has been filling disconnected from the church because of its lack of empathy and willingness to change, I found hope in Dr. Bourgeois’ words.
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  • Anne Latour
    5.0 out of 5 stars Roy stands in Solidarity with women priests
    Reviewed in the United States on June 28, 2022
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    A factual account of male supremacy in the Catholic Church
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  • Jw Farquhar
    5.0 out of 5 stars Male supremacy in the Catholic Church from a courageous priest's viewpoint
    Reviewed in the United States on June 13, 2022
    This book is written in two parts. The first is a story that begins with Roy Bourgeois service in Viet Nam as a naval officer, where he received the Purple Heart. Afterwards he served 40 years in the Roman Catholic Church as a priest. During this time he founded the School of the Americas (SOA) Watch, a solidarity movement that convicts U.S. foreign policy in Latin America. For this he was nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize.
    Part Two addresses the injustice of sexism and gender inequality in the Catholic Church, and Roy's excommunication from the church simply for supporting women's ordination as priests. On page 77 Roy documents this hypocrisy and corruption of the all-male priesthood with a 2008 USA Today report. In the USA alone nearly 5,000 priests had sexually abused more than 12,000 children. In 2010 the Vatican announced that the ordination of women as priests is a crime comparable to that of the sexual abuse of children. Furthermore the vast majority of Catholic priests who raped and sexually abused children were not excommunicated. However, every woman who has been ordained as a priest has been expelled and excommunicated by the Vatican.
    On Page 53 is a chart presented to Roy from a group of Catholic Women that describes the top down model of the Catholic Church. It begins with God (perceived as male), Pope (male), Cardinals (male), Bishops (male), Priests (male), Deacons (all male) and Lay men and Lay women. What I liked is that God is shown to be (perceived as male), instead of the all-male Trinity word, which is not written in the Bible. Given the sexism and gender inequality in the Catholic Church today, it is not hard to imagine why it ordained a misogynistic Trinity in the year 381. Perhaps this is the fragility of the Roman Catholic patriarchy.
    JW Farquhar
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