In a message dated 10/9/00 10:45:56 PM Eastern Daylight Time,
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<< it's also the church of Dorothy Day and Thomas Merton, and Daniel and
Philip Berrigan, and St. Francis of Assisi. The Catholic liberal
traditional, which I might prefer to call the Catholic compassionate
tradition, is rich and deep and still alive, even as it is reflected in a
fair number of papal encyclicals, and thus, official church teaching. >>
And don't forget Henri Nouwen who was a priest and a gay man and a very
prolific and well admired spiritual writer in the church between 1970 and
1996. And you are right, overall, catholic nuns are a very liberal bunch of
thinkers. And catholics outside the Roman tradidion tend to be very liberal.
I have come to associate it with a sacramental view of life. If you can see
things like bread and wine having a sacremental value, you tend to be able to
see compassion as well. The two go together very nicely.
patrick
np. j. brooke-always
