Why Do They Hate Women So Much?
This is worth serious reflection on the eve of the Assumption
The uproar over the "scandal" revelations that Father M. of the Legionaires fathered a few more kids than originally thought is perplexing and disturbing. The recent post from the American Papist gets to the root of the discomfort- it's about money. Inheritance. Child Support. They hate spending money on some priest's girlfriend and the kids he fathered-they begrudge their contributions going to someone he loved and the offspring of his intimacy. They are fine with spending blind billions on catholic charities for people they don't know, the faceless "poor" but contributions to someone he loved enough to father children with and support somehow rubs the wrong way because they can't fathom that this somehow is any part of "ministry." A priest with an actual "FAMILY" has been excluded completely from the definition of Christian Ministry and Vocation in the Catholic World. "Ministry" is narrowly defined and involves building, upkeep and maintenance of Cathedrals and church buildings, salaries of just men and women religious who have sworn off ever requiring men to build families with them, schools and orphanages for other people's kids and various ministry "projects" which are "Pro-Life"- but not really inclusively so, because the lives of women attached to priests and their offspring (or future progeny) just should get persecuted into dust not supported or embraced.
The Protestant world has long long ago banished this sort of small hearted miserly misogyny.
It's so ugly. It's so not Jesus. Jesus was about People.
God is Love.
God isn't a Building. God isn't a Budget. God isn't an abstract "Parish" but God is what Is when Real Love Is.- not the Usery kind of I Love You If I can Use You for What You Will Give Me- but the real kind of supportive Love- that kind perhaps this Father M. had for his family. Eros and Agape are not mutually exclusive and in fact are mutually synergistic.
The Protestant world pays their clergy salaries that are living wages designed to support their entire family and they are tailored to the needs of their family.
A priest who loved a woman and her children is closer to God by virtue of greater love than someone whose so called love of God persecutes women and crushes their spirits to dust.
The Economy of Heaven is not of this world. Wait till you see how off you all were and how much damage you all did. Cosmic Theistic Justice isn't what you think it is.
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