Reflecting on issues that I feel passionate about like Stopping the teaching of war and killing at Marquette University or erasing the stigma from persons who have mental illnesses I realize that I fell into these issues. I can trace a number of persons, like Phil Berrigan, Don Timmerman and Dorothy Day and events, like the wars in Vietnam, Iraq and Afghanistan that got me question the military presence at a Catholic University. My son getting ill led me into advocacy for persons with mental illnesses.

Now I find myself working on showing a film Pink Smoke Over the Vatican, about the controversy of women in the Catholic Church seeking ordination as priest. I can trace my interest in this issue once again to meeting people, particularly a woman priest at a Catholic Worker gathering and events like Father Roy Bourgeois of the SOAWatch refusing to recant his support of woman priest in front of the Vatican embassy in Washington D.C.

I do not seem to have much choice of what issues and concerns I am drawn to. Hopefully the spirit driving me and my conscience know form a Higher Power what they are going. Where I go I do not now but I go where I need to be.

Below is a draft for a poster of the film we are soon showing.

Pink Smoke Over the Vatican

An award winning riveting documentary about the controversial !!!movement of women seeking to be ordained as priests in the

Roman Catholic Church

Thursday, March 22nd at 7:00 p.m. at the

First Unitarian Society of Milwaukee

1342 North Astor Street.

Janice Sevre-Duszynska and Father Roy Bourgeois at SOA

Janice Sevre-Duszynska , Milwaukee native and Roman Catholic woman priest featured in the film, will introduce the 58 min. film and be available to hear comments and answer questions. For more information contact: CatholicsforWomenPriests@nonviolentcow.org

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