Vänner,
i den amerikanska delstaten Maine tar hundratals katoliker offentlig ställning för könsneutrala äktenskap.
http://ncronline.org/news/politics/maine-same-sex-marriage-catholic-issue
Att så många vågar visa civilkurage är inspirerande. Att de inte är fler är betänkligt. För säkerligen är det många fler som vill sätta stopp för diskrimineringen och förtrycket av homosexuella.
Gert Gelotte
Gert
Oerhört glädjande att katoliker protesterar KOLLEKTIVT. Enstaka katoliker som sticker ut hakan är viktiga men får dessvärre räkna med personliga sanktioner som nu i Maine där
”Pamella Starbird Beliveau of Lewiston, Maine, was removed as a lector and Eucharistic Minister after her pastor read an opinion piece she wrote for the local newspaper approving of same-sex marriage.”
Pamela Stairbird Beliveau skrev 18 okt en gästkrönika ”A Committed Marriage is a worthy Aspiration,” i lokaltidningen Sun Journal
Detta föraledde att hon fick ett brev från sin församlingspräst som skrev
”The Lewiston Sun Journal published a guest editorial by you which expressed views contrary to the Roman Catholic Church’s teaching on the nature of marriage. … In view of this publicly stated position of yours, I regret that you will not be eligible to exercise a public ministry in Prince of Peace Parish. More specifically, that means that I have decided that you are not to serve as a reader or minister of Holy Communion effective today …”
http://ncronline.org/news/gay-marriage-supporter-removed-ministries
Den KOLLEKTIVA protesten i Maine därför nu så mycket mer glädjande. Kollektiv bestraffning skulle ju kunna innebära att det i Maine inte skulle finnas några lektörer eller kommunionutdelare bland lekmännen där.
Då skulle prästerna och systrarna få det hett om öronen.
Läsarkommentarer i National Catholic Reporter som reaktion på kyrkans behandling av Pamela Stairbird Beliveau visar glädjande nog på FRISKHETSTECKEN i vår katolska kyrka.
”Submitted by A good Catholic Boy (not verified) on Oct. 30, 29.
When jesus said that upon this rock I will build my church. He was talking about the people(Peter) not the established theocracy of his time. The body of christ lives on in the people not the church. The church left me a long time ago, I did not leave the church. As long as we give them powers over our spiritual lives, these old men will continue to dictate to us what they thinks god’s intent is. The monster that they have created to instill fear in us is not the god that I know. The one I know is kind all forgiving and does not make mistakes. He made all of us in his image. No man has the right nor the authority to deny any other man or woman the right to be with god however he or she concieve him to be. Jesus was the ultimate revolutionary and he is calling on all of us to the revolution to fight against the catholic order that keep pushing us away.”
”Submitted by WayneM (not verified) on Oct. 29, 2009.
As I was reading this story about Pamella Starbird Beliveau, I couldn’t help but wonder, “where is it going to end”?
It seems as if you don’t toe the party line, then today’s Roman Catholic Church doesn’t want much to do with you. First, they came for the scientists, then they came for the liberation theologians, then they came for the religious, then they came for those of us in the pews who want to help out our local church, but maybe don’t agree with everything it teaches.
The result is not unlike the many tin-pot dictatorships throughout the world. Speak out against the regime and you are silenced. Freedom of speech and freedom of thought seem to be alien notions to the church hierarchy today. I wonder what Jesus would do? I somehow see him kneeling on the ground and writing with his finger and telling the Pharisees to go away. In Jesus’ world, there was room for everyone; in the world of the contemporary Roman Catholic Church, there is room only for those who puppet the party line. Just one more reason why I see it as being increasingly irrelevant in my life.”
Tilläggas kan att den nu aktuelle biskop Richard J. Malone i Maine tidigare har erfarenhet av att hans församlingsmedlemmar kollektivt protesterar.
Tex då biskop Malone förra året försökte återinsätta en präst i tjänst som han 2-3 år tidigare avsatt.
”The public outcry over my decision to allow (Coughlin) some public ministry has made it clear I misjudged the possibility of an effective ministry for Fr. Coughlin,” Malone said in a prepared statement Friday. ”And it’s clear that many are deeply angry and hurt that I took such action.”
http://pressherald.mainetoday.com/story.php?id=168424&ac=PHnws
// Irène
Gert
Oerhört glädjande att katoliker protesterar KOLLEKTIVT. Enstaka katoliker som sticker ut hakan är viktiga men får dessvärre räkna med personliga sanktioner som nu i Maine där
”Pamella Starbird Beliveau of Lewiston, Maine, was removed as a lector and Eucharistic Minister after her pastor read an opinion piece she wrote for the local newspaper approving of same-sex marriage.”
Pamela Stairbird Beliveau skrev 18 okt en gästkrönika ”A Committed Marriage is a worthy Aspiration,” i lokaltidningen Sun Journal
Detta föraledde att hon fick ett brev från sin församlingspräst som skrev
”The Lewiston Sun Journal published a guest editorial by you which expressed views contrary to the Roman Catholic Church’s teaching on the nature of marriage. … In view of this publicly stated position of yours, I regret that you will not be eligible to exercise a public ministry in Prince of Peace Parish. More specifically, that means that I have decided that you are not to serve as a reader or minister of Holy Communion effective today …”
http://ncronline.org/news/gay-marriage-supporter-removed-ministries
Den KOLLEKTIVA protesten i Maine därför nu så mycket mer glädjande. Kollektiv bestraffning skulle ju kunna innebära att det i Maine inte skulle finnas några lektörer eller kommunionutdelare bland lekmännen där.
Då skulle prästerna och systrarna få det hett om öronen.
Läsarkommentarer i National Catholic Reporter som reaktion på kyrkans behandling av Pamela Stairbird Beliveau visar glädjande nog på FRISKHETSTECKEN i vår katolska kyrka.
”Submitted by A good Catholic Boy (not verified) on Oct. 30, 29.
When jesus said that upon this rock I will build my church. He was talking about the people(Peter) not the established theocracy of his time. The body of christ lives on in the people not the church. The church left me a long time ago, I did not leave the church. As long as we give them powers over our spiritual lives, these old men will continue to dictate to us what they thinks god’s intent is. The monster that they have created to instill fear in us is not the god that I know. The one I know is kind all forgiving and does not make mistakes. He made all of us in his image. No man has the right nor the authority to deny any other man or woman the right to be with god however he or she concieve him to be. Jesus was the ultimate revolutionary and he is calling on all of us to the revolution to fight against the catholic order that keep pushing us away.”
”Submitted by WayneM (not verified) on Oct. 29, 2009.
As I was reading this story about Pamella Starbird Beliveau, I couldn’t help but wonder, “where is it going to end”?
It seems as if you don’t toe the party line, then today’s Roman Catholic Church doesn’t want much to do with you. First, they came for the scientists, then they came for the liberation theologians, then they came for the religious, then they came for those of us in the pews who want to help out our local church, but maybe don’t agree with everything it teaches.
The result is not unlike the many tin-pot dictatorships throughout the world. Speak out against the regime and you are silenced. Freedom of speech and freedom of thought seem to be alien notions to the church hierarchy today. I wonder what Jesus would do? I somehow see him kneeling on the ground and writing with his finger and telling the Pharisees to go away. In Jesus’ world, there was room for everyone; in the world of the contemporary Roman Catholic Church, there is room only for those who puppet the party line. Just one more reason why I see it as being increasingly irrelevant in my life.”
Tilläggas kan att den nu aktuelle biskop Richard J. Malone i Maine tidigare har erfarenhet av att hans församlingsmedlemmar kollektivt protesterar.
Tex då biskop Malone förra året försökte återinsätta en präst i tjänst som han 2-3 år tidigare avsatt.
”The public outcry over my decision to allow (Coughlin) some public ministry has made it clear I misjudged the possibility of an effective ministry for Fr. Coughlin,” Malone said in a prepared statement Friday. ”And it’s clear that many are deeply angry and hurt that I took such action.”
http://pressherald.mainetoday.com/story.php?id=168424&ac=PHnws
// Irène