LETTERS to the Editor

“To answer the question Tom Groome asked in 2002 [In the Vineyard, June 29 – “What do you MEAN ‘change the Church’?”], I came up with another question and a possible answer. The question has to be, "At what point did the Church need to change? The answer lies in an old movie title, ‘Back To The Future.’ I believe if we take a good hard look at the STORY of the early Church, we will find the blueprint for the future.

  1. Nowhere can it be found where Jesus said, ‘Though art Peter and upon this rock I build my (Catholic, Protestant, Baptist, whatever) church.’
  2. I'd be willing to wager that at least 10, maybe 11, of the twelve apostles were married and the small group of women (who in case anyone looked closely were the first to discover and SEE the risen Jesus) were simple (as in "unless you become as one of these”), thinking, everyday, non-pomp-and-circumstance individuals.

The rest as they say is history. I say let's repeat history!” Earl Gervais, New Orleans, LA


“ Tom Groome’s question would necessarily be answered differently today than it was in 2002. In fact, it is answered differently every year that it is asked; we are changing as ‘church’ all the time because the ‘church is us’, so to speak. We are called in many directions under many circumstances. I believe a timeless answer might be that if we continue to live our faith – each of us – then and only then will we see change. Living our faith inheres that we fight injustice – toward the survivors of abuse, toward our good and persevering priests, toward women and toward the disenfranchised everywhere in a world (and a Church) that seems to have made compartmentalization an altar.” Name withheld on request



In the Vineyard
July 27, 2006
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