Get thee to a Lesbian Seperatist Commune, err, Nunnery?

[commodorified]

Oh, Benny The Rat.

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Hey in the US no one is entitles to any maternity leave - count your self lucky.

Thanks, I won't.

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[emceeaich]

Does anyone listen to the Hierarchy? I mean other than the politicians pandering for votes from conservative evangelicals?

[commodorified]

My answer to that is more complex than I want to get into that this time, except to say that being pushed out by your spiritual home is painful and wrenching no matter how evident it may be to you that no other answer is possible.

[emceeaich]

I didn't make myself plainer. Let me rephrase:

My impression is that there are plenty of USA-ian Catholics who go to Mass, take Communion, and participate in their Church whilst considering the Hierarchy a bunch of asshats.

Meanwhile, the political group who the Hierarchy seems to be pandering to most popular with are conservative Protestant evangelicals.

[commodorified]

Gotcha. Thanks.

To clarify in return: I am a bit sensitive, maybe a bit oversensitive, to avoiding any sense of kicking Catholicism - as opposed to the heirarchy - when it's down. The Catholics I know are pretty much all Dorothy Day rather than Benny the Rat Catholics, and this stuff causes them enough pain.

[emceeaich]

Thanks.

The attitude of the folks in the Church I see on a daily basis, and I don't think they are a biased sample, is "What are the Bishops smoking?/What planet is Santorum from?"

Now the thing is that it's much more difficult for the Sisters, since they have do have a vow of obedience and if the Hierarchy kicks them out or shuts them down, I don't know what options they have.

In Cynthia's old home parish, the people who got stuff done were the Sisters, and I still put money in the Sister Jean Marie's Pantry jars when I see them, because Cyn and her mom knew Sister Jean Marie, and think she embodied what was good and right with the Church.

[cynthia1960]

Sr. John Marie should call down a air strike on the Bishops from on high.

[emceeaich]

And s/Jean/John/g in the comment above. I keep thinking of her as "Jean Marie" instead of "John Marie." Given the former is nearly my Mom's given names.