Gisela Forster

Gisela Forster ( born March 27, 1946 in Munich) is a proponent of women's priesthood in the Roman Catholic Church and is commonly regarded as Vagantenbischöfin.

Training

Gisela Forster was born in 1946 in Munich. Her parents were from Bavaria and Hungary. She attended the Elsa Brändström Gymnasium in Munich -Pasing and studied after high school art, architecture, urban planning, philosophy, and theology. It was Oberstudienrätin and Diploma Engineering from the Technical University of Munich. Her dissertation she wrote in philosophy and art. From 1972 to 1989 she taught at the high school of the Benedictine Schaeftlarn. In 1989, she broke up from school because she married Anselm Forster, who was director of the high school from 1966 to 1989. Anselm and Gisela Forster have two children: Thomas John Forster and Gabriele Forster. Since 1980, Gisela Forster involved in several church -based groups, was co-founder of the initiative group of affected women from celibacy and the group Mary Magdalene, priesthood for women. In 1989 she was elected to the council of the district of Starnberg, and practiced until 2002, the Office of a district council Presidents from. She has worked as an art teacher at a private school in Munich.

Ordination as priests

In 1998, Forster joined the movement " ordination offices for women in the RC Church ", which supports the ordination of women in conflict with the Roman Catholic Church. It is based on the inputs to the Vatican II Council of Ida Raming and Gertrud Heinzelmann from 1962. The movement sees itself as a movement within the Church: Members of the Roman Catholic Church must belong to and may not have escaped. The group wants has confirmed the discussion on the exclusion of women from all offices consecration by Pope John Paul II in his Apostolic Letter Ordinatio Sacerdotalis, continue and reach the admission of women to the office of the Roman Catholic priestess.

2002 did consecrate Gisela Forster, along with other women on a ship on the Danube of free Catholic Bishops Romolo Antonio Braschi priestess. Since the ordination of women by the Roman Catholic canon law is not only ineffective but also a grave sin it a few days later received an admonition ( Monitum ) and was after a few weeks excommunicated by Cardinal Ratzinger.

Controversy Braschi

Proponents of the ordination of women Forster argue Romolo Antonio Braschi, who in 2002 led by consecration, had been validly ordained and to the Roman Catholic priest ( by Bishop Geronimo Podesta ) bishop. According to canon law, the ability to grant the sacrament lies with the Catholic bishops, even if they are under a canonical penalty. Based on information provided Braschi was ordained by the late Bishop Geronimo Podesta bishop, so could Braschi valid consecrate priests. The episcopal ordination Braschis is expressly denied by the widow Podesta. As evidence of the consecration took place there ( next to the statement of Romulo Braschi itself) a notarial confirmation of four witnesses who claim to have been present at the consecration.

Opinion of the Archdiocese of Munich and Freising

" The so-called " women priests ordained " is a dubious spectacle of sparkling wine and has the features of a theater of the absurd. The Roman Catholic Church has all that to do nothing. " To the alleged Braschi property as a Catholic bishop is further indicated that it would lead the title " Monsignor " and acting as" Archbishop of Munich, Zurich, Buenos Aires and San Salvador de Bahia "for a co-founded by him already in the 70s and specifically as" non- Roman " designated " Catholic Apostolic Charismatic Church of Jesus king. "

Consecration to bishop

On 27 June 2003 Forster was known to have been ordained in the meantime secretly to Bishop. Like the priesthood is not recognized episcopal ordination of women by the Vatican.

Forster looked after together with Ida Raming and Patricia Fresen in a number of priests ordained by the Roman Catholic rite, so at the consecration

• The first Frenchwoman Genevieve Benney in Lyon 2005
• The first Canadian and American women in Gananoque 2005: Michele Birch - Connery, Victoria Rue, Jean Marchant and Marie David
• The consecration of Monika Wyss in Switzerland in 2006, along with Regina Nikolosi and Jane Via (the first priestess in Switzerland, however, the Old Catholic Denise Wyss, which was consecrated in 2000).
• Of the first women in the United States in Pittsburgh 2006: Joan Houk, Kathy Vandenberg, Kathleen Kunster, Bridget Mary Meehan, Roberta Meehan, Eileen DiFranco, Olivia Doko and Dana Reynolds

Works

• Karin Jaeckel, Gisela Forster: Because the woman be silent in church. Bastion Verlag, ISBN 3-404-61552-2.
• Gisela Forster: Together we are stronger than the tumor. Lesson, ISBN 978-3-939936-01-5.
• Gisela Forster: Dr. Patricia Fresen - commitment to humanity and equality. Lesson, ISBN 978-3-939936-16-9 ( in English).