Women Priest Rejoice at Ordination

A friend came over today to help with my gardens and to learn a little bit about composting and soil. When did some planting of Kale plants that I had started inside the sun room. I told him about the importance of getting the soil on your hands and how healing the effect that soil can have on your brain. He thought I was kidding so I told him about the featured article I had used a few months ago, Nature’s Bounty, Soil Salvation. The article explain how the “soil is a rich repository of microbes and other organisms with which we’ve coexisted from the beginning.” They found that certain strains of soil-borne mycobacteria sharply stimulated the human immune system and probably boosted serotonin levels in the brain. I know myself that after working in the garden for an hour or soil I feel good. My friend had the same experience.

Tonight I was one of the organizers for the showing of the film Pink Smoke Over the Vatican, a documentary film about the controversial movement of women seeking to be ordained as priests in the Roman Catholic Church. We had the film showing at a Unitarian Church, one of the first religious groups to have woman priest. Showing the film at a Catholic Church might have caused problems since the hierarchical Catholic Church says that only “baptized males” can become priest and we should not even talk about women priest. It was good to see such a large audience at the show, especially many Catholics who were open to breaking the silence the Church has imposed on women priest. After the one hour film I felt good just like I do when working in the garden.

Modern neuroscience has taught us that a person can change habits and way of doing things by experiences. Just like mycobacteria in soil can change the brain so can the awareness of the equality of woman in the Church shown with the ordination of Roman Catholic women priest change the brain and behavior. What we do in the soil and what we see on the screen changes us.

See quote below from Sojourner Truth about equality of women.

“Then that little man in black there, he says women can’t have as much rights as men, ‘cause Christ wasn’t a woman! Where did your Christ come from? Where did Christ come from? From God and a woman! Man had nothing to do with Him.”
― Sojourner Truth

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