San Jose State women stage “renegade” ordination

This is pretty badass.
On Monday, Victoria Rue of Watsonville will drape herself in a white robe and take a controversial step as part of her journey to become a better spiritual leader. She’ll also be performing a grave sin in the eyes of her church.
The San Jose State University instructor will join eight other women in a renegade “ordination” as priests — an act she is fully aware is forbidden by the Roman Catholic Church and could bring her excommunication. She doesn’t care.
The women are part of a tiny organization that began in Germany and Austria in 2002 called Roman Catholic Womenpriests. The first seven women to hold their homegrown “ordination” ceremony on the Danube River were excommunicated by Joseph Ratzinger, the former head of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, and who became Pope Benedict XVI this spring.
To the women’s knowledge, they are the only group performing public ordinations of women. There are about 70 members who are in the ordination-preparation program. By Monday, 25 women will have become illicit deacons, priests or bishops.
What is the fallout of this going to look like?