An Evening with Fr. Roy Bourgeois
The Church of the Beatitudes, in cooperation with Trinity Episcopal Church, arranged to present Fr. Roy Bourgeois in Santa Barbara on Jan. 26, 2010. He spoke on the subject of women’s ordination in the Roman Catholic Church — a cause which he supports as a matter of justice long denied.
- Click below to listen to Fr. Bourgeois’ presentation – an MP3 file (3.37Mb).
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- Click below to listen to Rev. Suzanne Dunn’s testimony about her experience being called by her friends and faith community to the Roman Catholic priesthood (1.72Mb).
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An Evening with Bishop Patricia Fresen
Members and friends of the Church of the Beatitudes turned out in large numbers to hear Bishop Fresen speak in Santa Barbara on March 30, 2010, on the topic “Long Walk to Freedom”: Ordination for Catholic Women. Using the title of Nelson Mandela’s autobiography as her theme, she considered developments, issues and challenges within the Catholic Church today which may be opening the way for the “long walk to freedom” of people within the Church, with a particular focus on priesthood for women. Her lecture was sponsored by the Walter H. Capps Center for the Study of Ethics, Religion, and Public Life at UCSB with a grant from the Ford Foundation.
- Listen to Bishop Fresen being introduced – an MP3 file (1Mb).
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