[Dialogue] Gratitude for the Kung letter
Evelyn Kurihara Philbrook
joyful at icatw.com
Fri Apr 23 10:35:25 CDT 2010
Dear Lucille,
Thank you for your profound witness and demonstration that your life has
become to us all.
Grace and Peace,
Evelyn Kurihara Philbrook
On Fri, Apr 23, 2010 at 4:14 AM, lifeline248 <lifeline248 at aol.com> wrote:
> Dear Colleagues,
> I join those of you who have expressed their gratitude for the Kung
> letter.
> The leadership of the Catholic Church is in dire need of conversion,
> but it still rejects the voices that for years have dared to speak "truth to
> authority." When dissension is silenced, mediocrity rises to the top, and
> more and more voices are stilled. A false understanding of religion is an
> insurmountable barrier to truth, a barrier built as the leadership piles
> what *they* were deeply indoctrinated to believe--by those above who
> themselves would brook no dissension--is the immutable truth of what they
> claim to be the one true church. A paradox of shameful proportions.
> Hans Kung was one of those silenced years ago by Rome.
> Nevertheless, he has always sought rational ways to reach the irrational
> powers that be. In fact, that is why he was defrocked.
> I do not know where, among the dioceses in America and other
> countries, there are a few strong bishops who could join forces and as a
> group force Rome to hear them out. Has there ever been? I pray that there
> are. Primarily for the sake of those individuals whom the church, in
> parishes and in Rome, has betrayed and hurt so profoundly; but also for the
> ordinary people who have been unable to see beyond the brainwashing.
> Grace and Peace,
> Lucille Chagnon
> for 24 years Sr. Lucille Tessier
> married for 32 years to the former Fr. Richard Chagnon
> for over 40 years an EI / ICA colleague
>
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Evelyn Kurihara Philbrook
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