An Outward Show of Pretense

Maryknoll Father Roy Bourgeois has confirmed his excommunication
from the Catholic Church but said he has not changed his view that
women who are called to priesthood should be ordained.

"But woe to those who maintain only an outward show of pretense of the Religious Life, who congratulate themselves, trusting in their own cleverness and knowledge, and are shown to be good for nothing. For they do not devote themselves to good works in the way of the Cross and penitence, nor in the honest observance of the Gospel which their profession binds them to observe purely and simply. Men like these will not stoutly resist the temptations which God allows to test His chosen; but those who have been tried and approved will receive the crown of life, and the evil lives of the apostates will only spur them to greater efforts."

Saint Francis of Assisi
Mirror of Perfection - 70

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