I was talking with my mother yesterday about Cardinal Law resigning. What does it mean? Is there a light at the end of the tunnel? Is this the beginning of something good and healing, or is this the end? I thought the man would never resign, and while he remained, it seemed as though, in the words of John Dean, there was a “cancer” on the Church, and it was spreading. <\/p>\n
Mum went to Albertus Magnus University in the 1960s, a Catholic women’s college. Many of my aunts went there, and a couple of my great-aunts, who were nuns at the time, were on the faculty. Mum was telling me what it was like, when she was there. <\/p>\n
“You could not walk on the grass. Nobody walked on the grass.” <\/p>\n
“So the rules were really strict,” I said. <\/p>\n
“Oh, so strict! I remember leading a rally with a friend for them to allow us a second carton of milk at lunch! This is like another world from the way it is now. And then … I don’t know who was the first one to do it … but people started walking on the grass. And from then on, it was like the nuns were happy if we just showed up in class.” <\/p>\n
“Really?” <\/p>\n
Then Mum tied it all together for me: “So I think Cardinal Law being forced to resign is like people suddenly walking on the grass.” <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
I was talking with my mother yesterday about Cardinal Law resigning. What does it mean? Is there a light at the end of the tunnel? Is this the beginning of something good and healing, or is this the end? I … Continue reading