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proud2BlibKansan Donating Member (1000+ posts) Journal Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list Wed Feb-02-11 04:17 PMOriginal messageMy uncle, a great Democrat from the greatest generation, died yesterday. He was 80. Edited on Wed Feb-02-11 04:18 PM by proud2BlibKansanHe was a Catholic priest. And the most liberal person I have ever known. He helped write Head Start law and was active in implementing early Head Start programs here in Kansas back in the 60s.There was never a Thanksgiving dinner during my childhood when he didn’t come walking in with a guest. Sometimes it was another priest and sometimes one of his parishioners with nowhere to go on Thanksgiving. He said the holiday was meant to be shared. And he never called my grandmother to tell her he was bringing a guest. She just always set an extra place, knowing he would invite someone.He was the first member of that generation I knew who admitted the Vietnam War was wrong. My dad was the second, after a Thanksgiving afternoon spent discussing The Pentagon Papers with my uncle. When my sister and I joined the local anti-war movement, my uncle congratulated us at a family mass.In the 1960s, he grew his hair long - a radical move for a priest in the midwest. He began referring to God as “She†when he said mass. He was assigned to a rural parish where he set up a community garden and gave away everything he grew. He also raised chickens and kept honey bees.In the 1970s, his bishop transferred him to a new parish and my uncle’s parishioners went nuts. They demanded he be allowed to stay. When the bishop refused, my uncle quit(Excommunicated) the diocese and moved to the Maryland shore, where he lived in a house with no electricity or running water. He got together with other exiled priests and formed an organization called Priests for Equality. Their goal was to convince the Catholic Church to ordain women. They also promoted the ERA, equal rights for homosexuals and the removal of the US from Central America. I believe PFE still regularly attends School of American protests every November in Georgia.PFE also rewrote the New Testament using inclusive language. http://www.amazon.com/Inclusive-New-Testament-Priests-E...About 5 years ago, my cousins went to visit my uncle and found him in such poor health they brought him home. He was diagnosed with Alzheimers and has been in a nursing home since. One of the last conversations I had with him was about the war on Iraq and how wrong it was.We’ve lost a great American.
w8liftinglady Donating Member (1000+ posts) Journal Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list Wed Feb-02-11 04:19 PMResponse to Original message2. your uncle can only be described as a "True Christian" I can see where you've gotten your kindness and committment.blessings to you.
Phentex Donating Member (1000+ posts) Journal Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list Wed Feb-02-11 04:21 PMResponse to Original message5. Sorry for your loss... sounds like an interesting person!Referring to God as "she" !
Not Me Donating Member (1000+ posts) Journal Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list Wed Feb-02-11 04:45 PMResponse to Original message9. I mourn your loss The Catholic Church needs many more like him to guide them back to the path that they have strayed away from.
If you read between the lines, you conclude that, in the very unlikely event this guy ever existed, he was a militant queer who was defrocked for molesting little boys. DUmped by the church, he lived out the remainder of his life as a homo hobo.
Personally, I don't believe a word of it. Anne is an attention seeking liar.I'm sure Miss Pritchett added this part on her own.
Phentex Donating Member (1000+ posts) Wed Feb-02-11 04:21 PMResponse to Original message5. Sorry for your loss...sounds like an interesting person!Referring to God as "she" !
About 5 years ago, my cousins went to visit my uncle and found him in such poor health they brought him home. He was diagnosed with Alzheimers and has been in a nursing home since. One of the last conversations I had with him was about the war on Iraq and how wrong it was.
When did this conversation take place? Who has a chat with an alzheimers patient about how wrong the Iraq was? What lying POS.
It's as honestly reported as DUmmy nadinbrzhzczxcszcski's conversation with the Egyptian and the Glenny at Starbucks. Hey, that sounds like the start of a good story! "So, a DUmmy, an Egyptian, and a Glenny walk into a Starbucks. The barrista says......"
What, no bobo?
I recall one time the Die alte Sau wrote about an aunt who was a nun, who advocated birth control and marriage.....for nuns.
IF any of this were true, the part about the uncle living on the Maryland shore from the 70s until five years ago (before the real estate crash), the guy could have ended up pretty wealthy since that area is now prime real estate with lots of gated communites and beach front properties.