tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6179100249774609535.post5890291953323333280..comments2023-03-29T09:25:31.338-07:00Comments on From the Chateau d'If: "AND THEN THERE WERE NUN..."Author, Script Writer, Filmhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13490668379736111466noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6179100249774609535.post-71961872507552310012010-01-10T14:18:04.424-08:002010-01-10T14:18:04.424-08:00I wonder what your nuns who tried their heart out ...I wonder what your nuns who tried their heart out for you would say. Not the knuckle wrappers, but the real ones. Our roles here as women are not as attainers of what men esteem as worthy, but of what God esteems. God became man, divested of all things, that we might become God. So says St. Thomas Acquinas. Any other path is not ignoring rules made by a bunch of staid old men, but following the first one who did not serve. If we wish to be first, we must be last. That is the position of strength and if we wish to be 'gods' let us act as the One who descended to the dust for us. It is the o n l y way to heaven. "I am the Way."<br />Follow your voices, Mr. Strauss. I follow my true spouse not your fans.Hand maid not manmadenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6179100249774609535.post-67979465164367616072009-07-12T10:36:14.383-07:002009-07-12T10:36:14.383-07:00Excellent! I agree with you 100% and not able to ...Excellent! I agree with you 100% and not able to express myself as you do so thank you for putting this in black and white! <br /><br />As a Catholic that had communion each and every day of her life, I can tell you that I learned about Goodness, Godliness outside of the Church. I learned to be spiritual rather than religious. This puts you in touch with your higher self and your inner instincts. <br /><br />Don't want to disrespect anyone who believes in a religion, but I do not, it is manmade. <br /><br />Again thank you.Guavatehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10859563578099884784noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6179100249774609535.post-79554206751382673472009-07-07T02:28:27.600-07:002009-07-07T02:28:27.600-07:00Your comparison of the elderly 'giving tree...Your comparison of the elderly 'giving tree' celibate nuns with the new protestors of what they once embraced to me spells out the truth.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6179100249774609535.post-14517316798933078642009-07-04T17:40:03.998-07:002009-07-04T17:40:03.998-07:00I did not intend to do anything other than link ou...I did not intend to do anything other than link our newly discovered pedophilia among Catholic priests with the concept of enforced celibacy. Yes, the general public has a higher rate of male pedophilia than that currently published by the Catholic Church. But the Catholic priests are, almost universally, in positions of public trust, whereas the general male population is not. And the Catholic Church has also been a whole lot less forthcoming about the incidence of these events among the members of its priesthood (over the figures put out by law enforcement). <br />I am more of Maritain and Bergson, when it comes to interpretation of the foundations for what should or should not be the direction of discourse about women. Women have as significant a presence in 'being' as men. Women are as intuitively 'here' as men, and deserve equal status in all things...including Church leadership, which runs from the very foundations to the tip of command within organized religious structure. Catholic, or otherwise. Falling back on the damaged remnants of directed fragmentary thought, as displayed by recitations of Biblical quotation, is less than weak, when applied to modern causal reality. Would one not expect an ancient text (actually a dynamically changing slew of edited texts), put together by aged subsistence men, to reflect anything other than total male dominance of all human activity? <br />The Catholic Church is dying in front of our eyes. It is going the way of Harley Davidsons and American Muscle cars, and even airlines as we know them. They are all dying because more and more people have grown weary of their inefficiencies and lack of useful logic. <br />Catholicism is an interpretation. All organized religions are interpretations. Interpretations of what God is, what God wants, what God says, and what we must do to please Him...and the other members of whatever organized religion we might belong to. <br />Catholicism needs to study itself, starting right in those hallowed offices of the Vatican, and find fault with itself. The changes that must come to the church should start with a manifesto of equality for all women, long overdue. What a shot in the Catholic Collective Repository of Faith that would be! <br />Are you right, if you follow a hardline policy of inequality and end up alone? Is that what God really intends? I don't think so.Fromthechateauhttp://www.from-the-chateau-dif.blogspot.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6179100249774609535.post-78090995369653558542009-07-04T15:15:13.396-07:002009-07-04T15:15:13.396-07:00St Paul said that he permitted no woman to have au...St Paul said that he permitted no woman to have authority over men in the church, and I don't think the church is wrong for not permitting female ordination to the priesthood. It's not accurate to claim that the celibacy rule is causing pedophilia; statistics actually show that abuse cases are lower among priests than they are in the general population.<br /><br />The reason why the religious orders are losing new applicants is a mystery, although the pope would certainly want more to join. The priesthood is also losing new applicants and people talk about a priest shortage these days. Some think it has to do with the culture and that the priesthood as well as religious orders are not being treated as respectful or worthy vocations. <br /><br />God Bless,David Murdochhttp://search.barnesandnoble.com/Ana-Markovic/David-Murdoch/e/9781606936481noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6179100249774609535.post-16804934154608480632009-07-03T12:45:30.481-07:002009-07-03T12:45:30.481-07:00Very nice post. I am with you as far as the nuns ...Very nice post. I am with you as far as the nuns are concerned. The Vatican needs to broaden its horizons... step out of the box... and give the women the opportunity to become priests and both nuns and priests to get married. <br /><br />The issue of the marriage is in my belief totally ignorant that after all that has gone on that the Vatican does not agree to make changes. Tradition cannot possibly make then stupid can it? Yes it can!Guavatehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10859563578099884784noreply@blogger.com