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An excellent article that, unfortuantely, it all too familiar to the many women who serve the church. http://telegraphjournal.canadaeast.com/search/article/1398705
An excellent article that, unfortuantely, it all too familiar to the many women who serve the church. http://telegraphjournal.canadaeast.com/search/article/1398705
Wife, mother, blogger, Catholic ministry. I love to garden even when it goes wrong. Same with writing (and we know it can go wrong.) Believing that God is present in all of it.
So June finds me losing my mind as the kids are scattered here and there while we finish up he school year. This year is a little more difficult as one of my babies is heading to middle school. In my frenzy, for example, I ran into a store today and left my car running,…
Last night, on the day of Pope John Paul II’s beatification, as well as Mercy Sunday, we learned as the world learned that Osama bin Laden had been killed. This is good news for sure. My Facebook page filled with people in a celebratory, patriotic spirit cheering for this heinous persons death. As they accumulated…
“In the sixth month, the angel Gabriel was sent from God to a town of Galilee called Nazareth, to a virgin betrothed to a man named Joseph, of the house of David, and the virgin’s name was Mary.” Luke 1:26-27 In most pictures depicting the annunciation, there is an angel presence speaking to Mary,…
The girls and I were running late for church this morning since my husband was called into work last minute. We managed to find a parking spot in our church parking lot, which at this Mass is unusual! As I walked across the lot to the front door, I happen to notice a van…
Jonathan Merritt of the RNS tweeted this essay which should be named, “How To Snare A Worthy Woman” from Reformed Singles.com. It gave me certain pause but only after a pretty good laugh. I am sure he doesn’t support any of this and his twitter feed was pretty funny in light of it, but I…
Yesterday in the middle of a conversation I was asked, “So, how do we entice kids to want to go to church.” The man who asked is a Priest. He has offered his life to bring people closer to God. I can understand and appreciate the depth of his question. But I will be honest,…
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You know I just want to say that I’m a bit surprised that the woman in the article was surprised that this happened to her. Its not like she didn’t know that the Catholic Church tends to treat women as second class citizens. Also, she knew that it was against the rules to preach, but did it anyways. That brings up the question. . . do you follow the authority of the church always or only when you don’t think that its stupid. That is a big question I feel right now in the Catholic church and something that the Vatican really needs to address. That all said, I honestly don’t think that this woman was treated unfairly. Who I do think are treated unfairly, are the nuns in the faith. They work so hard and are rewarded by the Church so little. It really annoys me that some Sisters have to ask their families to help supply them with the necessities of daily life.
The Catholic Church teaches that following ones own conscience holds primacy. I think it was a matter of conscience for the priest that encouraged her to preach. We have a wealth of well educated women who would be a great gift to share thier insights. So I don’t think it is a black and white issue. But I agree that our nuns are being treated very badly and that is starting at the Vatican. Thanks for your comment Nina!