MSN: Pink smoke protesting no women priests puts color into papal conclave

Even as pope-watchers spotted the first puffs of white smoke coming from the Vatican chimney and announcing a successor to Pope Benedict XVI, a few other Catholics were setting off their own fireworks. The Women’s Ordination Conference renewed its calls to expand the role of females in the church, in particular allowing them to become priests, and sent a flare of pink smoke over a hill above the Vatican to make their point. Janice Sevre-Duszynska, one of more than 124 female priests excommunicated in 2008, called for a new Vatican council without church officials but instead "people from local parishes, and people who have come out of prison and homeless centers."  Read More