Morag Liebert
Morag Liebert was the first, and so far only, woman in the United Kingdom to be ordained as a Roman Catholic Woman Priest (RCWP).
Morag was born in Edinburgh on 23rd June 1947. She attended Sciennes Primary School and Boroughmuir Senior Secondary School then studied for a M.A. in Biblical Studies and Moral Philosophy with Nursing Studies at Edinburgh University 1965-1970 and a M.Sc. in Nursing Education 1979-1980. Morag worked as a Health Visitor in Edinburgh and Morayshire and as a lecturer in Community Care and Health in the South Lothian College of Nursing and Midwifery.
Morag was born and brought up as an Episcopalian and became a Roman Catholic in adult life. When a Catholic Women’s Ordination group started in Edinburgh in 1994, Morag joined immediately. Through membership of this group she learned about the ordination to priesthood of seven Roman Catholic women from Germany and Austria on a boat on the Danube in 2002. This was the start of the Roman Catholic Women Priests and by 2014 there were two hundred RCWP on four continents. They are validly ordained in succession with St Peter, but are illegal in Canon Law because they are women. On ordination to the priesthood they are automatically excommunicated by the Roman Catholic Church.
After retirement Morag fulfilled a long held secret ambition by returning to Edinburgh University to study for a B.D. (Hons) and graduated in 2006. Morag then trained as a priest with the RCWP and was ordained a deacon on 11th October 2008 in Munich and a priest on 24th October 2009 in Edinburgh. Morag offers an inclusive feminist ministry and runs a small house church. She also works with abused women.
Morag Liebert
For more information on RCWP see: romancatholicwomenpriests.org,
