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Love is legislated as a crime.

George Pieczonka

Political institutional laws of State and Church that destroy Justice and Love that consequently destroy human beings must be abrogated when circumstances and conditions cease to support the consensus of their logic.

Ann and I spent together 38 years in the service of the Catholic Church defending the marginalized people created by the State and Church institutions.

It is ironic that Jesus did not die for any particular State or Church law and its logic. He died for unmasking the hypocrisy of laws and their logic that reduced a person to being a "nobody," void of an identity with Justice and Love.

Ann and I were motivated by love to marry. However, the law and logic of Church measured our love as a crime! As a result, we were excommunicated. Is there any place in the bible where Jesus considered love as a crime? Hence, we were driven out of the Church; we were forced into exile; we were abused; we became persons without a religious identity. We struggled with this imposed fantasy of the Church our whole married life of 31 years.

Now I must evaluate a new situation. Is God now using Ann's death and my book, our Love Story, as an instrument to unravel and expunge mandatory celibacy? Is God using this legislative abuse and our Love Story to advance the death-spiral upon this idiotic logic―law trumps love?

I firmly accept as true, at the age of 72, our imposed barren life is being used as an assault upon one of the most hideous laws, mandatory celibacy. The celibate and married priesthood must be seen as complementary through the act of choice. The repercussion of this event will rejuvenate and redirect the membership back to the message of the God of Jesus, Justice and Love for all. If this happens celebration will return to the Catholic Church. Hence, we will have reasons to be excited that we have destroyed a man made idol. And, the iconoclast God has returned to us.

Ann of Green Pastures steadfast stand

George Pieczonka

To the readers in our lifetime and those in our absence!

To: (Your name!)

Ann of Green Pastures has a truthful interweave: It is a Love Story-telling without sex, and yet, it is all about sex.

Ann of Green Pastures is an intuitive stand from the heart, advocating a married priesthood, and yet, it is also a prophetic condemnation against our Catholic institutional leadership―for denying its biblical and human value.

The book's indictment: You, the Bishops, created the god of the Groin!

Get out of my Groin! Get out of our Groin! Get out of their Groin!

Get out of the business of micro-managing the groin of the Catholic clergy and people!

Read Psalm 82! The Father-CEO-God of the Jewish Jesus sets the "job description" for the gods we constantly create for our self and our institutions; if these gods do not fit Psalm 82s "job description of the Chief God" they are fakes and so are you. Bishop's, your lord of the Groin is a depraved monster!

It is the hope that Ann of Green Pastures restores the God of the whole person and defeats the gods of parts!

Father Pie
George Pieczonka

Humanity & God

George Pieczonka

This insight about Humanity and the birth of Jesus was printed on Christmas Day, Monday, December 25, 2006 in the San Francisco Chronicle Newspaper, B Section. It was written by Robert Warren Cromey a retired Episcopalian priest who lives in San Francisco.

Let's skip the literal story of Jesus, Mary and Joseph. Let's get past the sentimentality of a baby born in a manger, shepherds, sheep and three wise guys from the East.

Let's look at the events, not as history but as myth, a story told to convey a great truth. None of us needs to believe either the story or myth.

But let's look at what the myth is attempting to say.

The life force, the source of the universe, the ground of all being, God, whatever you want to call it, becomes a baby named Jesus who grows into a human adult. That is the essential story of Christmas. In Christian church terms, we say God becomes a human being. That is the meaning of the incarnation, that the power of the universe became enfleshed in the world as a human being. No one has to believe that. It may be true, it may not be history or maybe it never happened.

Lots of people do not believe this story. Unitarians, Jews, Muslims, atheists, and agnostics do not believe that God became a man in the person of Jesus. Many devout Christians have trouble believing this story, and prefer to think of Jesus as an extraordinary human being, a prophet, and a mythic figure.

But what the story means is that human beings are so important that the creator, God, joined his/her creation, human kind. That gives tremendous importance to what it means to be human; our humanity has such a dignity and power that the creator joined the human race.

From that idea flows the need and desire to make every human being respected, free, whole and loved.

Many non-believers also work for these same values.

There is no merit in believing in the incarnation. But if we do believe, we then "strive for justice and peace among all people and respect the dignity of every human being."

We work for peace, feed the hungry, heal the sick, and find homes for the homeless.