Long Quote for Today on the Brazil Excommunications of the Victims

While the family of a 9-year-old incest victim’s abortion is excommunicated, the perpetrator never even made it to the ecclesial radar screen. Let this case signal the end of any credible claim to authority of bishops and the dawn of a new era when local communities determine their own members. I daresay the world will be a safer, kinder place.

. . . My colleagues at Catholicas pelo Direito de Decidir, an international partner to the Washington-based Catholics for Choice, asked in their editorial whether this was a case of Insanity, Cruelty, or Christian Principles? and I applaud them for stating the question so clearly and for answering it without equivocation. Let me simply add indignation, sadness, and affirmation.

It is hard to find words sufficient to convey the moral indignation elicited by the Roman Catholic Church’s actions. As a Catholic feminist theologian who is pro-choice, I have dealt with abortion for decades. I thought I was inured to its callousness. Maybe it’s because I have an 8-year-old daughter that I find the Church’s actions in this case violent beyond defense.

• Mary E. Hunt, Ph.D., a feminist theologian who is co-founder and co-director of the Women's Alliance for Theology, Ethics and Ritual (WATER) in Silver Spring, Maryland.  A Roman Catholic active in the women-church movement, she lectures and writes on theology and ethics. Full article here.

Comments

[Chris P]

All comments deleted again I see.

What a waste of a life. Trying to ignore reality and trying to stay in lala land believing in a non-existent sky god thinking that it might get him to non-existent heaven.

Get a telescope or something and look at the glory of the universe as it is. Learn some science and go do something useful for the planet. It and its people need help.

Continually denying science is causing lots of problems world wide.

[John Munro]

To be quite honest, The only thing the scientific community could do for me is provide me with a life like picture of my savior. I am sure the believers wold enjoy that problally more than the scientists love to doubt.
The world is waiting for a true picture of the Savior please????????