Here’s the provocative description of a story for Thursday’s Post-Dispatch: “The planned ordination of two women as priests at a Jewish synagogue Sunday is rupturing the St. Louis Interfaith community.
“Archbishop Raymond Burke has declared excommunication on the women. The rest of the Jewish community has shunned Central Reform Congregation, a St. Louis synagogue, where the ordination is set to occur.
“The head of the Interfaith Partnership of Metropolitan St. Louis has spoken against it.”
Here’s our story, which notes that the Roman Catholic Church prohibits the ordination of women.
So who is wrong in this case?
The women who want to be ordained? Burke? The synagogue that’s hosting the ordination? Interfaith?
Kurt has been an editor at the Post-Dispatch since August 2002, working on both STLtoday and the newspaper. He's been a journalist since 1982, covering municipal government, courts, education and two hurricanes as a reporter before becoming an editor. 
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