Shut Up, I Explained (#11)
There's so many posts that include "shut up", I have to start numbering them!
More protests in Ferguson, which will surely work as well as all the other ones. From the St. Louis Post Dispatch:
FERGUSON • About 25 civic leaders, members of the clergy and residents stood in front of the Ferguson Police Department on Sunday afternoon, calling for wholesale leadership changes...
... The Rev. Gerald Kleba, a Roman Catholic priest, said that the newly remodeled police department headquarters and jail, the red brick building behind the group, was tainted because it was partially paid for with overly aggressive ticketing and fines.
“The building is worthless and a sham and a shell unless an equal amount of time, energy and money is spent to bring a new culture and new police department to Ferguson, where officers truly serve and protect all the people,” Kleba said. “Otherwise the protesters who chanted ‘Burn it all down’ might just still do that".
Who is the Kleba fellow? Here's a story from the National Catholic Reporter (which is a newspaper in the same way that Kleba is a priest):
ST. LOUIS -- When Fr. Gerald Kleba volunteered to take over as pastor of St. Cronan Parish 10 years ago, he walked into a devastated parish.
A devastated parish will either drift into irrelevance, or it will pick up the pieces and try to put itself back together... It begins with the brochure at the church’s front door: “All are welcome: young, old; gay, straight; rich, poor; Catholic or not.” At Sunday Mass, a lesbian couple and their children walk up the aisle and offer the gifts. At the Eucharist, people surround the altar. They do not simply say amen; in a climate invigorated with the adrenaline of the Second Vatican Council, the pastor opens his arms: Let the church say amen....Kleba, who prefers to be called Gerry -- “I’m not much into clericalism”-- stresses lay leadership.
By 2004, two years into his pastorate at St. Cronan, the pastoral team consisted of Gerry, a gay man and a nun. “A woman and a gay man as copastors bring authenticity to who they are,” he said. “They are people baptized in the priesthood of Christ Jesus. The Catholic church can violate people’s rights as much as, say, the Chinese Communist Party.”
Read the whole thing, if you can stomach it. Watch for the WYMYN PRIESTS!
More protests in Ferguson, which will surely work as well as all the other ones. From the St. Louis Post Dispatch:
FERGUSON • About 25 civic leaders, members of the clergy and residents stood in front of the Ferguson Police Department on Sunday afternoon, calling for wholesale leadership changes...
... The Rev. Gerald Kleba, a Roman Catholic priest, said that the newly remodeled police department headquarters and jail, the red brick building behind the group, was tainted because it was partially paid for with overly aggressive ticketing and fines.
“The building is worthless and a sham and a shell unless an equal amount of time, energy and money is spent to bring a new culture and new police department to Ferguson, where officers truly serve and protect all the people,” Kleba said. “Otherwise the protesters who chanted ‘Burn it all down’ might just still do that".
Who is the Kleba fellow? Here's a story from the National Catholic Reporter (which is a newspaper in the same way that Kleba is a priest):
ST. LOUIS -- When Fr. Gerald Kleba volunteered to take over as pastor of St. Cronan Parish 10 years ago, he walked into a devastated parish.
A devastated parish will either drift into irrelevance, or it will pick up the pieces and try to put itself back together... It begins with the brochure at the church’s front door: “All are welcome: young, old; gay, straight; rich, poor; Catholic or not.” At Sunday Mass, a lesbian couple and their children walk up the aisle and offer the gifts. At the Eucharist, people surround the altar. They do not simply say amen; in a climate invigorated with the adrenaline of the Second Vatican Council, the pastor opens his arms: Let the church say amen....Kleba, who prefers to be called Gerry -- “I’m not much into clericalism”-- stresses lay leadership.
By 2004, two years into his pastorate at St. Cronan, the pastoral team consisted of Gerry, a gay man and a nun. “A woman and a gay man as copastors bring authenticity to who they are,” he said. “They are people baptized in the priesthood of Christ Jesus. The Catholic church can violate people’s rights as much as, say, the Chinese Communist Party.”
Read the whole thing, if you can stomach it. Watch for the WYMYN PRIESTS!
Labels: Priests, Shut up, Wymyn priests
posted by jope @ March 09, 2015
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