The say summer is past and fall is here. I did not notice a change in the weather but it is time to do fall stuff in the garden, pruning, clearing areas, making castings, move the worms to depository etc. My illness is slowing me down but I hope to catch up in a week or so.
I do not know if the essays, Catholic church in North Central Milwaukee, are having any further impact but I do know people who agree with the Cry of the Poor Petition bit fear signing it or else believe that it is just my idea and marginalize the message while marginalizing the messenger.
One exception was my cousin who was one of the first women to be admitted to St. Francis seminary to study with the priest to be. When they went on to ordination she went on to be a religious education person in a church. She realized she had a greater vocation and became an ordained Methodist minister. Nowadays women like my friend Janice from Milwaukee go on to be ordained women Catholic priest, despite being excommunicated from the official Church. My friend Janice just wrote me with a description of a liturgy a number of woman priest concelebrate in a home in New Orleans.
Like the 1.1 million dollars, ( Million dollar move ) the official Catholic Church thinks if they endanger fear in anyone recognizing woman priest and excommunicate them the whole thing will go away. No matter what the local Archdiocese does with the 1.1 million dollars intended for the poor in North Central Milwaukee the movement for justice and equality in the Church will grow. The Catholic Church can silence and ignored all they want the truth will still be out there, be it the Sexual abuse, taking money from poor to rich or forbidding women priest.
Roy Bourgeois, a Maryknoll priest who was excommunicated for being present at Janice’s ordination said: “And it is my conscience that compels me to say publicly that the exclusion of women from the priesthood is a grave injustice against women, against our Church and against our God who calls both men and women to the priesthood.” Although is better know at the director of SOAWatch the movement to close the military terrorist training base in Georgia, he outraged the Church more for just being at the altar.
What does the Church fear women’s call to priesthood, being transparent about past misbehavior of priest or about the delegation of money and resources. I do not know for sure but suspect it has something to do with the male hierarchical structure of the Roman Catholic Church. Just like the hierarchical military somehow they do not seem to be accountable to humans like us. There is some type of ‘expectionalist’ being in Church or Government they feel is their right and makes them superior.
Jesus became one of the poor, outcast, marginalized and accused of treason by the government of his time. However, he did pretty well after his death and resurrection. We pray the Church and the Government can follow his example.
In the garden there is a season for all things and there is no exceptionalism.
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