[Sundaycommunity] Fwd: FutureChurch's Statement on the Death of Pope Benedict XVI

Mon Jan 2 08:21:19 PST 2023

Thank you.  I appreciate your sending this.  I do also appreciate his
asking forgiveness of those he hurt.  This article makes clear how many
there were.

On Mon., Jan. 2, 2023, 8:21 a.m. Catherine Walther via Sundaycommunity, <
sundaycommunity at lists.integralshift.ca> wrote:

> A very powerful statement indeed! Catherine
>
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> From: FutureChurch <debrose at futurechurch.org>
> Date: Sun, Jan 1, 2023 at 8:39 PM
> Subject: FutureChurch's Statement on the Death of Pope Benedict XVI
> To: <catherine.walther at gmail.com>
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> *FutureChurch's Statement on the Death of Pope Benedict XVI*
>
> Upon the death of Pope Benedict XVI, FutureChurch offers prayers and
> condolences to his family and friends.
>
> The late pope offered the church consequential gifts. Most prominent among
> those gifts was his decision to resign his papacy. The recognition of
> his limitations in carrying out the functions required of a
> pope rightly helped de-mystify the office and humanize the people who sit
> at the helm of authority in the Church.
>
> But it must not be forgotten that Pope Benedict XVI left a legacy of pain
> for many faith-filled Catholics; especially women, LGBTQI+ Catholics, and
> those who had the courage to publicly dissent from his doctrinaire views.
>
> While affirming women’s equal dignity in the church and recognizing that
> the roles that women held in the early Church were in no way secondary,*
> his actions belied his distrust of women and their Spirit-led faith and
> authority. As prefect for the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith
> and later, as pope, he became a chief curator and enforcer of church laws,
> teachings, and policies that sought to keep women subordinate and silenced.
>
> During his tenure, he investigated the Leadership Conference of Women
> Religious (LCWR) twice. During the 2012 offensive, the Vatican accused the
> LCWR of promoting “radical feminist themes” and “corporate dissent” and
> fully intended to seize significant control over the most prominent and
> most trusted Catholic organization of women in the country.
>
> The Vatican also harshly criticized Professor Elizabeth Johnson, CSJ,
> casting aspersions on her feminist scholarship with fallacious arguments.
>
> These attacks on the nuns led to one of the most notable uprisings of
> Catholics in the United States. Ordinary Catholics and reform organizations
> (including FutureChurch) organized hundreds of protests in support of the
> nuns and their courageous, compassionate, and Gospel led ministries. Under
> the banner of “NunJustice,” representatives delivered over 17,500
> signatures to the Vatican urging them to quell the attacks and honor the
> work of the most respected Catholic authority in the country – women
> religious.
>
> Further, as Pope Benedict dealt out punishments, he offered clerics who
> sexually abused children and committed crimes the benefit of a process,
> while automatically excommunicating the pioneering women who chose a path
> to priestly ordination. The clericalism and sexism used to justify those
> decisions was in plain sight at every turn.
>
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> clearly demonstrate, the pope’s policies and teachings on homosexuality
> have devastated our LGBTQI+ friends and family and caused immense suffering
> and pain.
>
> While we grieve the loss of Pope Benedict XVI, we must not expunge the
> record when it comes to his many efforts to keep women subordinate and
> LGBTQI+ people excluded. The policies set while he served as prefect of the
> CDF and later as pope, matter today. Women and LGBTQI+ Catholics still
> suffer the effects of his policies in a Church that continues to undermine
> their authentic value, gifts, wisdom, and authority. In a Church still
> plagued by sexism, homophobia, clericalism, and other forms of injustice,
> we will continue to raise up the voices of justice, pray, and work to bring
> healing, hope, and love to all those who suffered during his time in power.
>
> End#
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> *
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> and discern if and how it should be amended.  The amended Continental Phase
> document will be used to develop the working document for the October 2023
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> consider.
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> FutureChurch welcomes Professor Mary Anne Case who will offer a history of
> the development of the complementarity in the Catholic Church. In a recent
> interview with America Magazine, Pope Francis reaffirmed the church’s
> embrace of complementarity’s constructs — the Marian and Petrine principles
> — for organizing ecclesial life, ministry, and governance. The language and
> framework he cites is a rather recent invention in the history of the
> Catholic Church. Professor Case will offer an overview of the history,
> timeline, as well as the nuances of papal thought on the topic.
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> *Bio*
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> Professor Mary Anne Case is the Arnold I. Shure Professor of Law at the
> University of Chicago Law School.
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> A graduate of Yale College and the Harvard Law School, Mary Anne Case
> studied at the University of Munich; litigated for Paul, Weiss, Rifkind,
> Wharton & Garrison; and was professor of law and Class of 1966 Research
> Professor at the University of Virginia before joining the Law School
> faculty. She also served as a visiting professor at New York University in
> 1996, 1997, and 1999; a Bosch Public Policy Fellow at the American Academy
> in Berlin in 2004; a Crane Fellow in Law and Public Affairs at Princeton
> University from 2006-2007; a Samuel Rubin Visiting Professor at Columbia
> Law School in 2013; a Fernand Braudel Fellow at the European University
> Institute in 2016; and a Guest Professor at Goethe University Frankfurt in
> 2018.
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> Subjects Case has taught include feminist jurisprudence, constitutional
> law, regulation of sexuality, marriage, family law, sex discrimination,
> religious freedom, and European legal systems. She is the convener of the
> Workshop on Regulating Family, Sex, and Gender and board member of the
> Center for the Study of Gender and Sexuality. While diverse research
> interests include German contract law, theological anthropology, and the
> First Amendment, her scholarship to date has concentrated on the regulation
> of sex, gender, sexuality, religion, and family; and the early history of
> feminism.
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> Screening and Discussion of Documentary “Going Home Like a Shooting Star:
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> Sr. Thea Bowman followed by a discussion led by *Sr. Anita Baird, DHM*.
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> Learn about the extraordinary life, ministry, and leadership of one of the
> most beloved saints of our times.
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> Those who have viewed the documentary rave about its impact on them!
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> *This was a remarkable tribute not only to one woman, but to all black
> women, women everywhere that they are needed, capable, and called to
> proclaim the love of Jesus to the world and especially to the downtrodden,
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> might divide us as a people of God. Thank you, thank you for sharing the
> life of this woman in such a beautiful way. God open the doors and windows
> of our Church to the needs of your people today. ~Comment on YouTube*
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> *I am in tears. Such inspiration… such a a joy-filled, faith-in-action! I
> am deeply affected by her spirit conveyed through this, through her voice,
> through her friends (some of whom are also my friends). Sr. Thea, pray for
> us (and I am sure it will be a song!). ~Comment on YouTube*
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> In a recent interview by *America Magazine* staff, Pope Francis responded
> to the women’s ordination question by citing the Marian and Petrine
> principle, also known as, complementarity or complementarianism. Based on
> the written interview, his response went unchallenged. No one found a way
> to press him on this venerated form of subordination.
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> *Subordination Remanufactured*
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> Complementarity is a relatively modern configuration for the long-held
> practice of subordinating women. Complementarity, Vatican style, heralds
> equality for women and men and yet works vigorously to keep women separate
> and without equal means to minister, influence, govern, and shape the
> teachings, laws, policies, and practices of the Catholic Church. It has
> developed with clear contours that have proven useful for enforcing the
> status quo in terms of male institutional power and authority. And it has
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