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.
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