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Article: More responses.(women and the Catholic Church)
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- National Catholic Reporter
- Article date:
- March 9, 2001
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Those who choose to stay rejoice in the church's richness, decry its blindness
Why would I, a retired college professor, lifelong Anglican, political activist and ardent feminist, join the Catholic church? Join it even as I loathed its exclusionary stances on homosexuality and divorced persons and the role of the laity, even as I rued its tin-eared translations of the Bible and the Psalter, and abhorred its growing intolerance of dissent. Why ever?
God only knows. Ultimately conversion is a mystery and a grace.
What I experienced was a sharp pull into an invisible vehicle, a capture, a wild night ride at breakneck speed. I don't know what ...