On the day that news broke of the pope's meeting with Kim Davis, I
was finishing Mary Dispenza's painful, liberating account of her
struggle to come to terms with her sexual abuse by a priest as a little
girl, followed by her struggle to come to terms with her gay sexual
orientation as an adult —
and, in both cases, her narrative centers on her difficult attempt to deal with the callousness and cruelty of Catholic "pastoral" leaders as she struggled along. And so Mary Dispenza's story now blends together in my mind with the revelation that, while refusing to meet with a single LGBT Catholic on his recent tour of "mercy" in the U.S., Pope Francis met with Kim Davis. Of all people . .
http://en.paperblog.com/mary-dispenza-s-powerful-memoir-split-moving-from-childhood-rape-by-a-priest-to-catholic-institutional-abuse-as-a-lesbian-i-can-live-with-the-consequences-of-love-1324596/
and, in both cases, her narrative centers on her difficult attempt to deal with the callousness and cruelty of Catholic "pastoral" leaders as she struggled along. And so Mary Dispenza's story now blends together in my mind with the revelation that, while refusing to meet with a single LGBT Catholic on his recent tour of "mercy" in the U.S., Pope Francis met with Kim Davis. Of all people . .
http://en.paperblog.com/mary-dispenza-s-powerful-memoir-split-moving-from-childhood-rape-by-a-priest-to-catholic-institutional-abuse-as-a-lesbian-i-can-live-with-the-consequences-of-love-1324596/