Three Priest
(l-r)Jerry Zwada OFM, Janice Sevre
-Duszynska ARCWP, Bill Brennan S.J.

While our Catholic Church worries about women’s ordination as priest and punishes those who support the women ordination our Catholic Church is silent about the violence that rages in our country. There is violence all over our media, killing in our movies, reflexive killing in our video games and taught by our military. The president and our politicians believe it is okay to send drones to Pakistan that often kills children.

Our Roman Catholic bishops at their semi-annual meeting could not, after four years, come up with a statement of economic justice. Yet when a priest, like my Franciscan friend Jerry or Jesuit friend Bill say a liturgy with our woman priest friend Janice, a beautiful moving liturgy, the Bishops take away their priestly facilities to say liturgy in public and cannot wear a Roman collar identify themselves as Catholic priest. Locally the Catholic Church has trouble using the money from sales of three churches in North Central Milwaukee for the needs of the people in North Central Milwaukee.

How many children need to die before we take action to restrict hand guns and assault rifles? This killing, like Columbine and so many more, will be all over the new the next few days. Some will respond by buying guns; some will respond by promoting gun control; some may even try to do something about the violence at heart of our society. However, sadly many more will just take in the news, harden their hearts and move on. Let’s pray and hope this time we can collectively say “Enough is Enough” and move past the talk into nonviolent action.

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