Anyone with even the lightest grip on reality, however, knows that these women are no more Catholic priests than a ten-year old child playacting the Mass in his backyard tree house. The fact that in order to be a Roman Catholic priest, one must be made so by the Roman Catholic Church, is apparently more than the MSM can bear to acknowledge.

In any other age, the appearance of a group of women dressed up in home-made costumes pretending to be priests and bishops would have elicited from the less charitable only laughter and ridicule; and from those more disposed to kindness toward the delusional, only a discreet silence. But in our times it is presented, not as a sad display of inanity by people whose adherence to their ideology makes them publicly ridiculous but, as an opportunity to lash out, equally ridiculously, against the favorite target of the day.

It is difficult to tell which came first: the feminist anti-Catholics in the robes playacting their fantasies of adolescent rebellion, or the news media who have gone to such futile lengths to make them not look silly.

In an editorial appearing in yesterday's National Post, columnist Lorne Gunter pointed out what ought to have been self-evident, that the Catholic Church as an institution has a right to decide who is and who is not a part of its hierarchy. Those who do not like it, he writes, are free to go elsewhere. The Spanish Inquisition having been safely dissolved, those who wish to go elsewhere are unlikely to receive much opposition from faithful Catholics.