This morning I saw a video that my priest friend Father Bill Brennan S.J. made before he died at age 94. He asked for it not to be release until after he died. It was released on TV news last night. He made a deathbed statement of how important he considered it that woman be ordained priest. (See Dying Catholic priest records videos declaring women should be ordained.) When he was alive Father Brennan was silenced by his religious order and Catholic Church for speaking out for ordaining women to priesthood.

This afternoon I got a call from an inner city thrift store. My 86 year friend, active in civil rights, needed a ride home. She had taken buses from her far out senior place she has been staying since her house had burned down. However, she was unaware that the bus she took did not operate after 11:30 am Saturday. She lives in a nice complex but it is very far from the North Central neighborhood that has been her home. She feels imprisoned.

Tonight I picked up another priest friend, a 78 year old Franciscan who just returned from a journey to California where he was arrested for crossing a private contractor involved in nuclear weapons production. He also went to Las Vegas Air Force base where he crossed the line on to a drone base and was arrested again. I took him home tonight to a Priory where he has been assigned by the Catholic Church for ‘prayer and penance’ for his support of women priest.

What these three events have in common is that they involved struggling for equality of women by elderly persons. People who stand up for their conscience are less afraid of being punished for acting on their beliefs as they grow older. Some elderly get strong in commitments as they age.

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