Priest held in Vatican march

A US Catholic priest who supports ordination for women has been detained by police after marching to the Vatican to press the Holy See to lift its ban on women priests.

The Rev Roy Bourgeois and two supporters were taken away in a police car after their group marched down the main boulevard leading to the Vatican and chanted outside St Peter’s Square “What do we want? Women priests!”

Bourgeois, members of the Women’s Ordination Conference and other groups supporting women priests went to Rome to deliver a petition backing Bourgeois, who is facing dismissal from his order for supporting women’s ordination.