Vulnerability as strength: Keenan's key to dismantling clericalism

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Vulnerability as strength: Keenan's key to dismantling clericalism

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by Tom Roberts

Dec 31, 2019

NCR Connections: Jesuit Fr. James Keenan really wants to turn the whole deal on its head. "Hierarchicalism," he writes, "and its lack of accountability and ability to act with impunity will be harder to dismantle than clericalism and in fact will guarantee the survival of clericalism, for the former is the father and promoter of the second." He proposes an alternative "culture of vulnerability as a path to a "servant priesthood" and a "servant episcopacy."