Emails

[jessicaem]

I recently wrote an email to my parish priest.

Dear Father [his name],

You certainly must have heard about the recent controversy in the
Archdiocese of Denver surrounding the preschool- and kindergarten-age
siblings who will not be allowed to return to her Catholic school
because they have two lesbian mothers. I am horribly dismayed and

Comments

[garpu]

Wow cool...your parish priest answers email? ;)

It struck me as the kind of thing a person who can barely turn on a computer without breaking something would write.

[jessicaem]

Hah! Good call. He seems to be reasonably Internet-savvy, though. He has had maintained his family's website for years, and he recently joined Facebook. I was somewhat tickled to get a friend request from him. However, I do think he is extremely busy.

[garpu]

Yeah, does sound like "geez, I need to respond, but I'm really busy," too. I've found the best way to get good answers out of my parish priests is to buy 'em coffee.

[jessicaem]

That probably is a good call. I have had better results meeting priests in person, too. For some reason, I feel really hesitant to do that right now. Partly it's because I'm just so damn busy. But also, I really do feel less articulate when I try to talk about this stuff using, you know, my voice. I have a much easier time organizing my thoughts in writing. When I talk, about the best I can come up with is, "That's just so WRONG, man!"

[kookie_chick]

You already know (I think you do, at any rate) that even though I was baptised Catholic, I haven't been a practicing Catholic for over 20 years. I joined the legions of Jesus freaks when I was 20 years old, became 'born again', and started attending non-denominational (Protestant) churches

[collingwest]

IAWTC.

Several years ago when the Vatican released the statement that depression was caused by moral relativism, I got so mad that I wrote a letter to the diocesan newspaper. To my surprise, they printed it, and it was amazing the number of people who came up to me and said, "thank you, you said what I was thinking."

That's one of the reasons I've managed to stick around, even if the magisterium doesn't know what to do with a single, child-free woman who prefers to work in business.