Patricia Fresen

Patricia Fresen ( born December 7, 1940 in South Africa) is a South African theologian. She is an advocate of women's ordination in the Roman Catholic Church and not recognized by the Church Vagantenbischöfin.

Life

Fresens parents came from Ireland and Germany. At 17, she entered the Order of the Dominicans. She studied theology, pedagogy and languages ​​and was at 24 years old headmistress. In the apartheid era, they fought for the equal treatment of black and white children. When she refused to exclude black children from school, she was punished. After the abolition of apartheid in South Africa, she was rehabilitated. She received her doctorate in Rome and Pretoria in Theology Dr. theol. and taught seven years in the seminary of Pretoria the subjects homiletics, Systematic Theology and Spirituality. Later she taught at the Catholic University of Johannesburg (St. Augustine 's College ) Theology. Furthermore, she became involved in the fight against AIDS.

In 2002, in a secret ceremony Catholic women were ordained priests, she joined this movement and received in 2003 as part of the second " European Women's Conference " in Barcelona the consecration. Within the Roman Catholic Church, the priesthood can only be donated men, so their ordination is not recognized by the Church.

She had to leave the Dominican Sisters and has since been in the training of women as priests with. It is committed to the equality of women in all denominations, especially in the Roman Catholic Church.

In 2005 she was ordained to Vagantenbischöfin. The bishops of their movement, they commissioned ostensibly to devote more women in different countries deacons and priests. Fresen is with Gisela Forster and Ida Raming at the top of the " Roman Catholic Women Priests International" ( RCWP - International), which campaigns for equal rights for women in the Catholic Church.

Fresen was repeatedly asked by the Catholic Church to distance themselves from illegal from the perspective of church consecration ( ordination simulation). This leaning Fresen was excommunicated from but and then. As a particularly serious appeared the fact that she still keeps Masses and sacraments (eg Anointing of the Sick, Holy Orders ) - depending on the perspective - donate or their dispensation simulated.