You and others in the thread will love, I think, the National Catholic Reporter op ed piece on today's SNAP website. ![]() ![]() And you're right: until it happens to you, you can be totally unaware of the process by which this is done to so many folks. MaryNH, loved your phrase "disenfranchised as a human person." That very precisely describes what too many of the "pastors" have done to survivors and others who dare to ask that the church tell the truth and shame the devil. Put her in a roomful of those malefactors, and I'm afraid not merely words would fly, but hanks of hair, as she yanked them out of the heads of bishops while repeating one of her favorite sayings, forever engraved in my brain: "Tell the truth and shame the devil!" Though her Irish-born mother had left the Catholic church since there was none near her in her rural community when the family moved from Ireland, my grandmother retained a proprietorial interest in "the" church (and a firm, if probably unfounded, belief she was somehow related to the Kennedys). If she were around today and in her prime, it would be Katy bar the door for many of the bishops, I fear. She loved to laugh, was quick to excuse faults (particularly in her family) though she could take the hide off family members with her tongue-something she permitted no one else to do. ![]() I wish many days I had mine still with me. ![]() 4Peace, glad my story brought your grandmother to mind.
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