Women priests

My wife and I get a large charge out of the bombastic letters to the editor you print. Their latest railing at your presentation on women priests (NCR, Dec. 21) fires us up to come out from under the radar to invite these women priests to come and celebrate the Eucharist at the Great Outdoors RV and Golf Resort, St. Christopher's Faith Community, in Titusville, Fla., anytime.

We are a eucharistic community of Christians, 70 percent Catholic, 15 percent Episcopalian, 15 percent Lutheran et al, served by a few married Roman Catholic priests. The priests do not accept any salary or stipend and are not trying to start a new church, but just trying to implement the norms of Jesus Christ and his inspired council, Vatican II.

We would love to have any of these women priests come to preach and concelebrate the Eucharist with us, not as in a caste system but as a simple community ministered by priests who have the ecclesiastical impediment of having received too many sacraments, just like the new women priests.

MICHAEL and IRENE GALLAGHER

Titusville, Fla.

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