<div dir="auto">A very powerful statement indeed! Catherine </div><div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">---------- Forwarded message ---------<br>From: <strong class="gmail_sendername" dir="auto">FutureChurch</strong> <span dir="auto"><<a href="mailto:debrose@futurechurch.org">debrose@futurechurch.org</a>></span><br>Date: Sun, Jan 1, 2023 at 8:39 PM<br>Subject: FutureChurch's Statement on the Death of Pope Benedict XVI<br>To: <<a href="mailto:catherine.walther@gmail.com">catherine.walther@gmail.com</a>><br></div><br><br><u></u>
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<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:10px;line-height:150%;text-align:center"><span style="font-size:20px"><strong>FutureChurch's Statement on the Death of Pope Benedict XVI</strong></span></p>
<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:10px;line-height:150%">Upon the death of Pope Benedict XVI, FutureChurch offers prayers and condolences to his family and friends.</p>
<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:10px;line-height:150%">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.</p>
<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:10px;line-height:150%">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. </p>
<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:10px;line-height:150%">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. </p>
<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:10px;line-height:150%">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. </p>
<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:10px;line-height:150%"> The Vatican also harshly criticized Professor Elizabeth Johnson, CSJ, casting aspersions on her feminist scholarship with fallacious arguments.</p>
<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:10px;line-height:150%">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. </p>
<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:10px;line-height:150%">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.</p>
<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:10px;line-height:150%">As <span><a href="https://click.mlsend.com/link/c/YT0yMTE4NTk5NzkzOTQ4MjM2MjYyJmM9eTltOCZlPTAmYj0xMDYwMDAzMjA2JmQ9aDBiOHUwbQ==.k0rmO7I8YERcUBIgA0S906u6YT1Hc3MD85LdYW9QDMs" style="word-break:break-word;font-family:'Poppins',sans-serif;color:#007bff;text-decoration:underline" target="_blank">New Ways Ministry</a></span> and <span><a href="https://click.mlsend.com/link/c/YT0yMTE4NTk5NzkzOTQ4MjM2MjYyJmM9eTltOCZlPTAmYj0xMDYwMDAzMjA3JmQ9bzdvMGs5cg==.J31P72BUnI8ZCYaRKboMw6pSseUmwiPmWQWHNMy5PfI" style="word-break:break-word;font-family:'Poppins',sans-serif;color:#007bff;text-decoration:underline" target="_blank">DignityUSA</a></span> clearly demonstrate, the pope’s policies and teachings on homosexuality have devastated our LGBTQI+ friends and family and caused immense suffering and
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<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:10px;line-height:150%">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.</p>
<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:10px;line-height:150%">End#<br></p>
<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:10px;line-height:150%"> *<a href="https://click.mlsend.com/link/c/YT0yMTE4NTk5NzkzOTQ4MjM2MjYyJmM9eTltOCZlPTAmYj0xMDYwMDAzMjA4JmQ9ZTdyNXMxcQ==.1SrdhHCLtArZA_sAS8YZst_FjHE8ENkFiKJa322o43o" style="word-break:break-word;font-family:'Poppins',sans-serif;color:#007bff;text-decoration:underline" target="_blank">https://www.vatican.va/content/benedict-xvi/en/audiences/2007/documents/hf_ben-xvi_aud_20070214.html</a>)</p>
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<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:10px;line-height:150%">The Continental Phase document of the Synod was released on October 27, 2022. So far, the document has been surprisingly accurate in reflecting the joys, sorrows, and hopes of Catholics who have spent a lifetime working for justice, inclusion, and reform within the institutional church. </p>
<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:10px;line-height:150%">During this Continental Phase, Catholics are asked to review the document 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 gathering.</p>
<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:10px;line-height:150%">To encourage Catholics to take part in that process, FutureChurch will hold two discernment sessions on Tuesdays, January 24 and 31 at 7pm ET. </p>
<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:10px;line-height:150%">At that time, we will pray and reflect on the document and offer feedback. FutureChurch will gather that feedback and send it to the Synod of Bishops and the U.S. Bishops on March 18<sup>th</sup> in time for it to be incorporated into the working document for the 2023 Synod of Bishops in Rome.</p>
<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:10px;line-height:150%"><strong>Please take time to review the full document at <span><a href="https://click.mlsend.com/link/c/YT0yMTE4NTk5NzkzOTQ4MjM2MjYyJmM9eTltOCZlPTAmYj0xMDYwMDAzMjE4JmQ9cTRkNmg3Yw==.jVFF0ZaJVP1PXLSLpqD6SBSu1ghSBiWVGuSBTvOKi1M" style="word-break:break-word;font-family:'Poppins',sans-serif;color:#007bff;text-decoration:underline" target="_blank">https://www.synod.va/en/highli...</a></span></strong></p>
<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:10px;line-height:150%">At our two sessions, <strong><em>we will focus on Sections 3 and 4</em>. </strong> Prior to our gathering, we will send out more information and some questions to consider. </p>
<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;line-height:150%"><span style="font-size:0.875rem">Join us and stay engaged!</span></p>
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<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:10px;line-height:150%">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.</p>
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<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:10px;line-height:150%">Professor Mary Anne Case is the Arnold I. Shure Professor of Law at the University of Chicago Law School. </p>
<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:10px;line-height:150%">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.</p>
<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;line-height:150%">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.</p>
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<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:10px;line-height:150%">As part of our Women Witnesses for Racial Justice Series, FutureChurch invites you to join us for a screening of a new documentary on the life of Sr. Thea Bowman followed by a discussion led by <strong>Sr. Anita Baird, DHM</strong>.<br></p>
<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:10px;line-height:150%">Learn about the extraordinary life, ministry, and leadership of one of the most beloved saints of our times.</p>
<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:10px;line-height:150%">Those who have viewed the documentary rave about its impact on them!</p>
<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:10px;line-height:150%"><em>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, the weak, the sinful, the outcast, the doubter, and all God’s children regardless of cultures, ethnicities, backgrounds, or any other matter that 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</em></p>
<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:10px;line-height:150%"><em>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</em></p>
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<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:10px;line-height:150%">In a recent interview by <em>America Magazine</em> 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.</p>
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<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:10px;line-height:150%">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 been mass marketed to Catholics -- as no less than “the new feminism.” <a href="https://click.mlsend.com/link/c/YT0yMTE4NTk5NzkzOTQ4MjM2MjYyJmM9eTltOCZlPTAmYj0xMDYwMDAzMjMwJmQ9bjV6NnU5Yg==.NgSrH2mwgxaFy6StmZ9ZeQYlm4a_tp3UDEvlny8VqDM" style="word-break:break-word;font-family:'Poppins',sans-serif;color:#007bff;text-decoration:underline" target="_blank">Read more</a></p>
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