Columnist right to question church
Re: Catholic faith is about truth, not modernism, letters, May 23
In response to your allegation that Rosemary Ganley’s recent letter about the Catholic church denotes her “ignorance” on the topic, I have to differ.
I myself find Ms. Ganley’s opinions to be fair and open-minded concerning a religion she nonetheless still respects. Perhaps your letter just appeared at a bad time for me, as I have just finished watching a new Netflix documentary called The Keepers, and am still quite affected by the renewed disgust it aroused in me for this institution.
The issue of sexual abuse in the Catholic church is not new, nor is it disputed, by the Catholic church. What I found from watching this film is the extent to which the church made a concerted effort to weasel out of its culpability.
If you can just sit back and review these facts, as to how many innocents were sacrificed in the cause of protecting the church, and you can still claim that “eternal truth is the object of the church”, then I’m afraid you may be so locked into their dogma that you may never be able to see the real world around us. If you could at least agree, as Ms. Ganley points out, the church needs to acknowledge and treat the female sex as equal to the male dominance in the church, then maybe you could assist in bringing these atrocities to an end with the added common sense and wisdom the female sex will bring to the institution.
Hard for the ole boys club to grasp, I know. But recent great world leaders have found that where females are allowed to be equal to males, communities thrive. Why wouldn’t you want that for your church community as well?
Your letter seems to imply that the church’s “truth” is never-ending, steadfast, unchanging with the political climate. Maybe you should google some history of the Catholic faith and just see how very much it has changed with the times, however slowly.
You use the word “modernism” as if it is a bad thing. Again, I disagree, choosing to call these changes “progress.”
Bev Miles
Omemee