UNITED STATES
Questions from a Ewe
I’ve been reading many different perspectives and speculations about the upcoming Synod on the Family. Repeatedly from the camp of guys who don’t actually live in or lead family units…that would be the hierarchical leaders…I hear variations on the, “We are right; we always were right; we will always be right; therefore the following people can’t have communion” theme. I have two observations / questions regarding this:
1. Humility is the ability to say, “Maybe we were wrong.” Why do you collectively and individually lack the humility and quite frankly, the self-confidence, to ponder that question? Did you not read in last Sunday’s first reading, “For my thoughts are not your thoughts, nor are your ways my ways says the LORD. For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways, my thoughts higher than your thoughts (Is 55:8-9).” Why do you think that your interpretations are immovable and accurate? Why can’t you allow for the possibility that your thoughts and ways are not synonymous with God’s thoughts and ways? Have you idolized yourselves through idolatry of your roles to the point you find your thoughts and teachings equal to God’s? If so, is that acceptable?
2. Even if your teachings are 200% correct, so what? Why would that preclude sharing the body and blood of Christ with people who violate certain teachings? The gospel notes time and again that Jesus shared himself, dined at table, with some of the most notorious sinners. Can you be credible Vicars of Christ if you can’t imitate that signature trait of his?
Why are you only threatened by welcoming certain categories of sinners to the table? You certainly are comfortable welcoming to the communion table members of the sinner category, “irresponsible bishops and sexually abusive priests.” Some of them you not only allow to receive communion, you permit them to consecrate the hosts! This, evidently does not threaten you in the least. But, women who disobey you by claiming to have more insight into their relationship with God that you do…well, gentleman, that seems to scare the holy excrement out of you. Why?
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