Ideas you discuss, but situations have to be discerned.
Pope
Francis
I came upon the above quote in a recent issue of Commonweal
(2.22.19) in an article by Austen Ivereigh. The author was reflecting on Pope
Francis’ remarks to reporters on his way home from Chile.
Between February 20th and the 24th
bishops from around the world will be meeting at the Vatican regarding the
global sex abuse crisis in the Church. The summit is designed to be about
conversion, a change of heart, rather than a meeting to develop and produce
more norms, codes, laws or procedures. The goal of the summit is to bring about
a true awareness of the suffering of the victims and to name the root of the problem.
Only then can reform be effective.
Let us support the assembled bishops in our prayer.
Sr. Mary Catherine Wenstrup, OSB
Dear Sister this horrid topic of sex abuse has lived in the newspaper it seems to me for more than twenty years, and I have spent most of my adult life reading news articles about Church and society's difficulties with gender & sexuality & and the horrors of this kind of accusation and surely partial-revealing of complicated business. I'd like to say SHUT UP! But we are still not compassionate enough, neither in church nor society -- Africa Asia South America -- & they don't tell us what research has fully revealed. Let us change the topic. I have reason to believe that the most intelligent people in society are not working where I need them to work. In fact, they may be secretly working to secularize society and undermine the church. I know for a fact (by careful observation) that Pope Francis must be a super-brain. I want more of these super-brains in the convents. How can we do this? This is my wish. For the sisters to be super-brains for Christ and for Mary. God bless OSB. Happy Easter soon.
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