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.
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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