Dorothy Day: "As a convert I never expected much of the bishops. In all history popes and bishops seem to have been blind and power loving and greedy. I never expected much from them. It it is the saints that keep appearing all thru history who keep things going....

Apr 28, 2020 · 3:02 PM UTC

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"What I do expect is the bread of life and down thru the ages there is that continuity...The gospel is hard. Loving your enemies, and the worst are of our own household, is hard." Oct 29 1968, letter to Gordon Zahn
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Replying to @RobertEllsberg
Thank you for this perspective. Thank you. I ask you pray for Sr Peter Paul, a saint in Uganda with ulcers and high blood pressure working at a large hospital as a worker of conscience who will not abandon the sick and weary and abandoned
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Replying to @RobertEllsberg
Day has a point.
Replying to @RobertEllsberg
Wish I'd heard that 40 years ago! Thanks for the tweet
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Replying to @RobertEllsberg @KaJuror
Many of today's clergy, especially the high ranking ones, act in a way that reminds more of the Pharisees in Jesus' time.
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Replying to @RobertEllsberg
Jesus never intended for his Church (Catholic, evangelical, mainline) to have the structure we have. The ecclesiastical hierarchy is created by men.
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Replying to @RobertEllsberg @yourauntemma
So dam true. Only really coming to that realisation now at 58. Too trusting or too passive? Even the good ones to a large extent oil the machine. Yes a machine needs administrators but that’s not what bishops are supposed to be. Sad.
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Replying to @RobertEllsberg
Amen v’amen, as they say in the synagogue . . .
Replying to @RobertEllsberg
I really needed to hear this today. I really struggle to stay in this church. My parish priest and fellow parishioners live the gospel and this gives me strength. Our hope is in the Lord.
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