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Patrick "Mac" Deuparo
Hello Fellow Holy Redeemerites
we lost another comrad who fought for what Jesus might call the leper's, but what we call the marginalized today.
How blessed were we to be under his guidence... during the 1960's... though the more insitutional catholics might disagree
and such is freedom
and freedom is what he spoke for gays, liesbiens, the poor, ending war in VietNam, nuclear prolifiration...women priest and more power to the lay people
That is "Bishop Gumblelton"... who ran the good race... and leaves us in his place
below a few comments from the New York Times, April 11th
Detroit Catholic, a digital church publication, wrote of Bishop Gumbleton last week that his “early life and ministry were significantly influenced by the Second Vatican Council, which called upon the laity to take up a greater role in the Church, and for the Church to take a greater role in speaking out against injustice.”
His pacifism and other views were part of a progressive tradition in the Catholic Church. He was one of five bishops who, in 1983, drafted a landmark statement by the National Conference of Catholic Bishops that excoriated nuclear weapons.
His views on gay and lesbian people, which he acknowledged had been stamped with the homophobia of his time, evolved faster than church doctrine, beginning when his youngest brother, Dan, came out as gay in the 1980s in a letter to family members. At first, Bishop Gumbleton feared that having a gay brother might affect his standing in the church, he told PBS in 1997, and he threw the letter aside without reading it to the end.
But when his mother asked him if her gay son would go to hell, Bishop Gumbleton said no, and he began a journey of acceptance that led him to speak to NPR about “the beauty of gay love” and to urge the church to accept same-sex marriage.
So on that note... lets keep up the good fight... lets tax the wealth... as Jesus said, "it will be easier for a camel to go through an eye of a neddle, that for a rich man to enter the kingdom of heaven."
We can kill two birds with one stone... helping the wealth from damnation... and helping the marginalized enjoy a life of dignity and peace that us successful Redeemerites enjoy in our retirment
PMJD
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