Pink Smoke Over the Vatican is a documentary film about the

controversial movement of women seeking to be ordained as

priests in the Roman Catholic Church. 

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           On June 3, 2008, The Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith ​issued a sweeping order of excommunication for “the crime of attempting ​sacred ordination of a woman.” ​

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     Pink Smoke Over the Vatican chronicles the events that led up to this severe punishment and tells the stories of the determined women and men who, through the forbidden and illicit path of female ordination, are working to end the misogyny ​and outdated feudal governance that is ​slowly destroying the Roman Catholic Church. ​