Questions from a Ewe

"Test everything; retain what is good.” (1 Thes 5:21) A laywoman expresses concerns about issues in the Roman Catholic Church to foster positive dialogue by posing and exploring questions. Please remember that Canon Law says it is not only a right but a duty to question the church. Also, Canon Law provides an over-riding power to the sensus fidelium (sense of the faithful). By this, Canon Law says that if the sensus fidelium (collective of the faithful) reject a law, it is not valid.

Monday, February 28, 2011

Should "fathers" be financially dependent upon their “children”?

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Church leaders instruct the laity to call ordained clergy, “father”, and to see them as the “head of household”. The “head of household...

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Tuesday, February 22, 2011

Should church leaders reconsider their zero tolerance policy for pedophile priests?

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Thomas Guarino’s January 4, 2011 essay entitled, “The Priesthood and Justice” argues against the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishop’s (USCC...

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Tuesday, February 15, 2011

Why didn't someone tell me deacons got a demotion in 2009?

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Why didn’t somebody tell me that deacons got a demotion in 2009? On October 26, 2009 Pope Benedict XVI issued a motu proprio (one of his p...

Saturday, February 12, 2011

What happened to "being imitators of Christ"?

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St. Paul instructs all faithful to "be imitators of Christ". However, by their own declaration, priests and church leaders especia...

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Saturday, February 5, 2011

Would Pope Benedict XVI have excommunicated himself?

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Last week the German newspaper, Die Sueddeutsche, reported on a letter sent to German bishops in 1970 that encouraged permitting Catholic pr...

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Questions from a Ewe: I am a single mother of three who from the eyes of the Roman Catholic hierarchy is in full communion with the Church. But I question if any woman is capable of being in full communion with the Roman Catholic Church due to clericalism, sexism, and the marginalization, and emotional abuse of women. I hold a master degree in theology from Loyola (Master of Pastoral Studies, M.P.S.). I am not employed by the Catholic Church but rather am an executive consultant. Some ask if I want to be a priest. We are baptized priest, prophet and king. I feel I am more called to exercise my prophetic voice than a priestly one. (Artwork supplied courtesy of one of my daughters.)

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