We Are Only Hurting Ourselves

[BlueKota]

10. There was a young deacon assigned to the parrish

I grew up in. He often spoke up that priests and nuns should not live in cushy rectorys or convents, but live in and serve lower income communities. He said Jesus spoke out against the hoarding of wealth, more than any other sin. They almost weren't going to ordain him. There was an outcry from the parishioners who loved him and the Bishop gave in.

He eventually left because of the churches hypocrisy not only on wealth but because he believed woman should be able to become priests, and that Jesus would not have approved of their shunning gay people. He actually opened his own church in a larger city. He has stepped back from running it, but he turned over the reins to a woman priest.

In my mind his behavior represents what I thought the gospels meant, more than the Pope and all the Bishops put together.