Ordination is sex-specific

Pro-women's ordination movement attempts to bring petition to Vatican

Janice Sevre-Duszynska, who claims to have been ordained a Catholic priest in 2008 in Lexington, Ky., is engaged by Italian police as she approaches St. Peter's Square at the Vatican Oct. 17. She was not arrested nor detained, but Maryknoll Father Roy Bourgeois and two other advocates for women's ordination were briefly detained by police during the demonstration.

After marching up the wide boulevard to St. Peter's Square, Maryknoll Father Roy Bourgeois and two other demonstrators supporting women's ordination were briefly detained by Italian police.