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In run-up to pope election, dissidents seek voice

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Martha Heizer, president of the International Movement "We are Church", meets reporters in Rome. Advocacy groups from around the world have descended on Rome to try to publicize their causes while media attention on the Vatican is high.

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Janice Sevre-Duszynska poses with a banner at the Vatican. The Vatican has made the illicit ordination of women one of the "gravest" canonical crimes. The sanction is swift and severe: automatic excommunication for the woman receiving the attempted ordination and the priest who performs the ceremony.

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Janice Sevre-Duszynska poses as the dome of St. Peter's Basilica is seen in background, in Rome. Supporters of the female priest movement argue that Jesus called "women and men to be disciples and equals living the Gospel."

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The election of a new pope always brings with it hopes for change from across the Catholic ideological and theological spectrum. Advocacy groups from around the world have descended on Rome to try to publicize their causes while media attention on the Vatican is high. These lay groups won't determine the vote. But some movements are influencing the debate, particularly those that count hundreds of active Catholic priests as members — a threat the Vatican cannot easily ignore.

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    • Martha Heizer, president of the International Movement “We are Church”, meets reporters in Rome. Advocacy groups from around the world have descended on Rome to try to publicize their causes while media attention on the Vatican is high.
    • Janice Sevre-Duszynska poses with a banner at the Vatican. The Vatican has made the illicit ordination of women one of the “gravest” canonical crimes. The sanction is swift and severe: automatic excommunication for the woman receiving the attempted ordination and the priest who performs the ceremony.
    • Janice Sevre-Duszynska poses as the dome of St. Peter’s Basilica is seen in background, in Rome. Supporters of the female priest movement argue that Jesus called “women and men to be disciples and equals living the Gospel.”
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