We’ll keep this post flowing with links to stories about the events on a boat in Pittsburgh today, beginning with this WaPo story by Michelle Boorstein.

The theological problems are not really dealt with in the story – why the Church would say these are invalid ordinations even if the initial ordinations were carried out by a validly ordained male bishop (which is something I wouldn’t take for granted, despite the group’s claims that it was so.)

The language is still "Church officials" say that the ordinations are not valid. There is just one layer missing there, that implies that again, this is a matter of contemporarly opinion. Is it really so problematic to simply say, "Catholic Church teaching and canon law…"