Monday, March 18, 2013

What would James Joyce think?

… Why I have quit Catholicism to become an Episcopalian | Emma Gilbey Keller | Comment is free | guardian.co.uk. (Hat tip, Dave Lull.)


I find this truly bizarre. "If my experience of Catholic women leaders has been overwhelmingly positive, I cannot say the same for our male leaders. Who could?" I could.  And if my first experience of a nun — in kindergarten — had been typical, I would probably have left the Church long ago.  I could make an Episcopalian joke (God's Frozen People), but I won't. One of the most saintly people I have ever known was Episcopalian.
Oh, and what would Joyce think? Well, not long after he placed an ad in a Dublin paper announcing that he had left the Church, a Protestant pastor came to invite him to join his church. Joyce, always the diplomat, explained that "I've lost my faith, not my mind."

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