WHY THE POPE?

DEAR READERS,

So much media coverage over choosing a new pope.

Having been brought-up Catholic, I can understand the ritual, tradition, and pageantry which has with all its' color, power and mystic the ability to mesmerize our visual needs for stimulation and our ego needs for information. But does a group of self-important men electing another male representative of an institution filled with secrecy, corruption, and abusers really deserve the constant aggrandizement of its' wealth and patriarchal control?

I find it impossible to believe any organization whose members exclude women, hoard wealth, and abuse children truly carries the love of Christ and the word of God. This is indeed the pollution of the priest craft ... I do not care how pretty the red robes and how bright the glitter of gold and jewels.

Maybe there is a pope who will be elected who will give all that the church has to the needy of the world, who will allow women to be ordained, and who will become protectors of every child's well being. This is a Catholicism I could then respect in today's world and any world to come: a prayer for balance, goodness and love. This is news I could celebrate, share, and understand.

WHAT DO YOU THINK?

Amber Silverstar.



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