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Krista Steele's avatar

This is EXACTLY how I feel in our parish right now. There are people I love and aspects of the parish that I love but also abuse and misogyny in the clergy, a lack of critical thought, fewer and fewer leadership roles for women in parish life. It’s absolutely infuriating and just a cross section of larger issues within our diocese but man if you’re not on one extreme or the other, it’s easy to feel like I’m the crazy one when I’m too conservative for some Catholics and too liberal for others.

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Amber Adrian's avatar

Loved reading this this morning, Claire.

I'm in the wilderness with you too. "It’s hard to want to cling to a community that stands against so many of our modern cultural issues, but because you don’t toe the party line in exactly the precise way, you’re ignored and belittled. It’s hard to be up against forced teaming (“if you’re not with us, you’re against us”)" -- nodding so hard at all of that! And UgggHHHhhh, Christian Internet can be so discouraging... I had my own moment last week and now I'm wondering if we were looking at the same thing? (Probably not; there's so much.)

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