gave up by Peter Graf
With our Apple TV we can have all of our pictures on flicker flash by on our TV screen in different orders while internet music of our choice, tonight is Blues, plays in the background. Pictures from Haiti, Peter’s picture, Mexico, SOAWatch and more slide across the screen. . This is a part of my life the last three years in pictures. Blue music fits my mood tonight.
There is TV speculation that the next Pope might be Cardinal Dolan of New York, formerly Archbishop of Dolan. I met him when he first came to Milwaukee at the Catholic Worker house and since we both had a historical interest in life of Dorothy Day, co-founder of the Catholic Worker, at least until the US went to war in Iraq. He was all in agreement with Pope John Paul II that the war was “illegal, immoral and unjust” until the war started. Ever the person to please everyone he went silent on the war at a time he needed to step up. My stand on the war and a few other issues moved him to write me, what I call, a ‘nasty email’. Later he apologized for the email, ever the person to please everyone, but our friendship never came back. He was popular since he liked beer and fish friends and was a social glad handler. I figure he was taking only superficial stands so he could move up in hierarchy and he did becoming Cardinal of New York. But this is not before his manipulating money accounts, ridding Archdiocese of many ministries and left the Church in Milwaukee still reeling from the sexual abuse scandal. I think his being pope is just talk. Any background check will discover the mess he made in Milwaukee. In fact right before he left for Rome he had to give an affidavit in the bankruptcy hearing with sexual abuse scandal. He made some transfers of money that if legal are questionable. Can a man of little theological substance be Pope? We will see.
Tomorrow I plan to go to Raynor library to join friends in our hour of prayer. According to MU administrators I am subject to arrest if I do this. What better way to get arrested than for praying in the lobby of a library at a Catholic University.
If Cardinal Dolan becomes Pope and wants to shut me up by excommunicating me I hope he does it for my resistance to war and teaching killing at a Catholic university, my support of women priest and my effort to use the 1.1 million dollars the Church in Milwaukee made by closing Catholic Churches in the poorest and most segregated part of the city for beds, stoves and refrigerators for people in need. But the truth probably is that a Pope Dolan would do what the Church and Marquette is doing now; marginalize us so they can ignore our messages of the works of mercy, resistance to war and support of dignity of women. I rather be excommunicated than marginalized and ignored but that is not my choice.
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