The Gripes of Wrath – World Youth Day
July 15th 2008 04:55
'ZOOM IN! ZOOM IN DAMMIT! WHY WON'T YOU ZOOM!??!'
A lot of my indecision stems from being raised Catholic and then spending a lot of my adolescence hanging around Maronite youth. At high school it was cool to be Catholic. But my all-girls-private-school-Cath olic-upbringing led me to believe that being Catholic was the right way. This way we got the best of both worlds. In touch with the world and reality, our Catholicism was one of social justice. Our founder was a woman who defied the church and was excommunicated as a result. Our Catholicism was wholly feminist and radical. Senior girls handed out Communion to their fellow students. Students read out homilies. Students organised liturgy. In the classrooms we studied women in the Church and women in other religions
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