Upstate New York CTA is very pleased to announce that ‘dismissed’ Maryknoller Roy Bourgeois will be our guest speaker for a Spring Thruway Tour. The tour will begin in the Albany area, at the Bethany Reformed Church, 760 New Scotland Ave., Albany, NY Sunday afternoon, February 17th and continue on subsequent days to Binghamton, Syracuse, Rochester and Buffalo. The topic of Roy’s talk will be: “A Priest Speaks his Conscience: The Struggle for Justice and Gender Equality in the Catholic Church.” Click on Calendar above for time and location details.

Fr. Roy will open the tour in Albany at the Bethany Reformed Church, 760 New Scotland Avenue, Albany, NY. Contact: Steve Powers at (518) 370-1615. The talk is free and open to the public. A Free will offering will be taken.

Fr. Roy has spoken at National CTA Conferences as well as many venues around the United States not only as a leader of S.O.A. Watch, but also as a leading advocate for the ordination of women in the Catholic Church.

On Nov. 19, 2012, after 36 years in the Priesthood, Fr. Roy Bourgeois discovered he had been “expelled from the Maryknoll Fathers and Brothers, his religious order and faith community for 46 years and the Vatican had removed his priesthood – all for his refusal to be silent about his support for womens’s ordination.”

Please click on the calendar link above for complete details of other stops on the tour.