tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1761008798674378601.post3059304156299473099..comments2023-09-15T06:46:24.587-07:00Comments on Queer Quaker: Brother Francis, I Still Protest Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11217553161094699223noreply@blogger.comBlogger12125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1761008798674378601.post-80980338941987583722015-10-25T20:50:20.114-07:002015-10-25T20:50:20.114-07:00Dang boy, you are so nice, I however- a mean old f...Dang boy, you are so nice, I however- a mean old friend am not so nice. Screw em. Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18411434777656277366noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1761008798674378601.post-12576026422103147562015-09-28T17:49:44.910-07:002015-09-28T17:49:44.910-07:00Thanks for reading and commenting Gail! There is a...Thanks for reading and commenting Gail! There is another Native American author who wrote a fantastic piece named Randy Woodley, he is also a professor at George Fox University https://ethnicspace.wordpress.com/2015/09/24/popes-hypocritical-stance-towards-indigenous-americans-opens-new-wounds-by-randy-woodley/Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11217553161094699223noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1761008798674378601.post-78741641030646092692015-09-28T16:22:52.348-07:002015-09-28T16:22:52.348-07:00Wow! Thank you : ) that is wonderful to know!Wow! Thank you : ) that is wonderful to know!Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11217553161094699223noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1761008798674378601.post-22101833229439676952015-09-28T16:22:17.095-07:002015-09-28T16:22:17.095-07:00thank you for reading! : ) thank you for reading! : ) Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11217553161094699223noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1761008798674378601.post-71883048945335108802015-09-28T08:20:24.801-07:002015-09-28T08:20:24.801-07:00Echoing the THANKS from other folks who have chime...Echoing the THANKS from other folks who have chimed in earlier: I, too, had those qualms, and am very grateful that you've located a large part of my own discomfort. Mark Charles, a blogger who reminds all of us of the peoples who lived on this land before any Europeans arrived, has another reminder of what's getting left out in the issues Francis is drawing attention to (http://wirelesshogan.blogspot.com/2015/09/pope-francis-in-dc.html)Gailhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01368629866789470084noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1761008798674378601.post-6249408132579993482015-09-28T00:48:34.402-07:002015-09-28T00:48:34.402-07:00Thank you. Translated into Russian for the Russian...Thank you. Translated into Russian for the Russian Quaker facebook group. Сергейhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16974919267474310940noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1761008798674378601.post-61224993190220035572015-09-28T00:34:17.841-07:002015-09-28T00:34:17.841-07:00THANK YOU!THANK YOU!RantWomanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17611656459134372290noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1761008798674378601.post-9770225967588732462015-09-26T22:17:47.227-07:002015-09-26T22:17:47.227-07:00Hahaha thanks so much for reading Friend : ) I am ...Hahaha thanks so much for reading Friend : ) I am glad my words have resonated with you, but also definitely would welcome your perspective/pushback if there is something I say in the future that you have a different opinion on! I appreciate you! Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11217553161094699223noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1761008798674378601.post-40209385801787153762015-09-26T22:05:00.197-07:002015-09-26T22:05:00.197-07:00I haven't followed what Francis has done about...I haven't followed what Francis has done about the child abusing priests in his denomination...I should probably research more. I will be holding those victims in my prayers. Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11217553161094699223noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1761008798674378601.post-18291240730673081542015-09-26T18:01:36.151-07:002015-09-26T18:01:36.151-07:00This Friend speaks my mind. Thank you AJ for sayi...This Friend speaks my mind. Thank you AJ for saying what needs to be said. May I sign on as cosponsor?Joe Snyderhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12842406152833328950noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1761008798674378601.post-76972700537429047282015-09-26T16:48:45.216-07:002015-09-26T16:48:45.216-07:00Last I heard, and I haven't followed carefully...Last I heard, and I haven't followed carefully, he is still harboring pedophiles. Now what do you think would happen if someone else who harbors pedophiles was invited to speak to Congress?David Alberthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07528423047315798677noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1761008798674378601.post-58516313134909795232015-09-26T14:39:58.594-07:002015-09-26T14:39:58.594-07:00THANK YOU, A.J. I feel similarly, though didn&#...THANK YOU, A.J. I feel similarly, though didn't flesh it out so much. I've just been feeling like an odd duck surrounded by liberals of various faiths who all seem to think (swoon) "He's sooo cool!" My much cooler feeling toward him -- in the cool, calm, and collected sense -- is some combination of these things:<br /><br />- He's still not MY Pope, so isn't it as cross purposes with my faith if I were to get all swooning about him?<br /><br />- What happens when the next Pope comes along and says the opposite? If we give this good Spirit our affirmation of his Popedom and how much it matters, and then we don't do it when the message says stuff we don't like....what IS all that? It just seems very spiritually messy and untenable. <br /><br />- I don't value his positions that favor the authority of the Catholic church -- buying into it in the first place. Or the degree to which he still is moderate and not liberating when it comes to, yeah, women, but gay people even more so. <br /><br />I can be grateful that -- in a world where people see him as powerful -- he is one man saying Christ's actual liberating teachings matter. He is still implementing that in faulty ways (to my thinking)...but I'm grateful that he's using the power the world gives him to lift up the poor, to speak about our environment, and to encourage (ho hum, Catholic Church) more moderation and less judgment when it comes to gay people, divorced people, etc. It's baby-steps with those folks... At least that's what we've come to expect. Maybe that's why everyone's fawning all over him. Just being floored that he actually believes in social justice finally: so the bar is low and the Glow is high. Oliviahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17315746194574729750noreply@blogger.com