Litany of the Saints

Which includes a few dames


At a very conservative catholic bookstore in Washington, DC a statue of another one of my favorite saints Catherine of Siena stands at the back looking gaunt.

She is a pillar and a Doctor of the Church. She was so esteemed in her day one town in Italy has her head (Sienna) and Rome took her body where it currently lies entombed under a church altar behind the Pantheon.


You cannot go into a Catholic church without being spotted by another even more famous female saint- The Blessed Virgin Mother of God.

She appears in all sorts of forms: , sashed standing in a Lourdes grotto, surrounded by a halo of stars, perpetually helping holding the baby Jesus with his sandal slightly falling off....she's everywhere.


So apparently women rank in Heaven.

So it amuses me to no end that the reason why Episcopalian Bishops are mutinying and flocking to Catholicism is because they can't stand having women be Bishops.

But this mass defection creates another stunning dichotimous cannon law doctrinal conundrum; all the Episcopalian Bishops definitionally had to be good husbands-because that is scriptural. They generally have solid marriages, families with lots of kids and found nothing incompatible ontologically with their priesthood and married family life- it all serves God in different forms. They recognize that a cad in a collar is less moral and virtuous than a solid family guy. They see the polygamous pitfalls of priests spiritually betrothing too many women who start getting jealous of each other and imagining themselves church housewives as happens in Catholic churchs, especially to the old dames who have no life but being fashion plating "church ladies"--who would date them?

Episcopalians can't stand women in ecclesiastical authority but they love them in the kitchen.


So what is a Pope to do now? Let all the Episcopalian priests be priests while the good old boys in black still hold to the absurd unbiblical medieval ontological myth that they are so ontologically different in being that being married would compromise their service of the church or virtue?

Maybe they should poll the unhappier heterosexual souls to see what they really think.


What is a Pope to do indeed.


I welcome all the Episcopalian brethren because they provide a flood of fresh air and a welcome lesson that women can be loved on earth, just as they are in heaven and given the level of respect Jesus actually afforded them. Notwithstanding that Paul actually told them to shut up and ask spiritual questions of their husbands at home- (which presupposes that these husbands were of some spiritual knowledge or authority- and married) women clearly have the spiritual capacity to teach some men a few things-and they need the learning.

So what's a Pope to do now? Perhaps he will after all commission that statue (and canon law statute) I keep asking for - of Mrs. Peter Pope and center it at the front door of Saint Peter's in the Vatican.

--this was written by a woman who is too old to be bitter and too loved to be jealous-so don't hate me because I'm beautiful.