NCR
By Kevin Aschenbrenner
Commentary
As I watch the back-and-forth between the Vatican and the Leadership
Conference of Women Religious (LCWR), I’m struck by how the two sides
are defining the concept of dialogue and its role in resolving Church
conflict. Their starkly different views of that term were highlighted in
the separate the interviews that
Bishop Leonard Blair of Toledo, Ohio, and
Franciscan Sr. Pat Farrell
did with National Public Radio.
For Farrell, dialogue is about creating “a safe and respectful
environment where church leaders along with the rank-and-file…can raise
questions openly.” In Blair’s case, dialogue is a pathway for the LCWR
to “remedy serious doctrinal concerns.”
For years now we’ve heard the title “cafeteria Catholics” disgustedly hurled by the hierarchy as an epithet at thinking people of faith who discern the Spirit’s movement in the “signs of the times.” It seems the Vatican “administrators” might be guilty of a similar “picking and choosing” of tenets of belief regarding dialogue. We might call their stance "Cafeteria Cardinals."
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