Father Roy Borgeouis is a Maryknoll Priest who founded the movement to close the US Army's School of the Americas in 1990 following the assassination of 12 Jesuit priests, their housekeeper, and her daughter in El Salvador the previous year. Many of the officers involved in the massacre had trained at the US Army facility.
More recently, Fr. Roy has become a vocal supporter for official recognition of women's right to the Priesthood in the Roman Catholic Church. As described in the following article, he was detained on Oct. 17th by Italian police for protesting outside St. Peter's Square at the Vatican:
Maryknoll priest who backs women's ordination detained at Vatican | National Catholic Reporter
"It's not like delivering a pizza, you can't just show up" unannounced and without authorization, the undercover police officer said.
"It's a very important pizza," one of the demonstrators shouted.
Update as of Oct. 24th: Challenging the Old Boys Network in the Vatican, by Bill Quigley, Associate Director of the Center for Constitutional Rights and a law professor at Loyola University New Orleans
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