Our Children are Spiritual.
They are Good People.
Institutional Church does not speak to them where they are.
Our Children have good values.
They are educated.
They are Leaders
in Universities, in Businesses, in Government,
in the Arts and in the Professions.
Institutional Church does not speak to them where they are.
They demand more of Church than did we or our parents.
They are used to operating in professional environments
that demand Accountability.
Their companies and non-profits
demand Transparency.
They will not offer their time, talent, treasure
to parishes or dioceses
that ignore the notions of
Accountability and Transparency.
Institutional Church does not speak to them where they are.
Our post-Vatican II Children
see no reason why church should operate
on a wholly different plane
than every other significant institution in our society.
Church hierarchy cannot treat our Children as uneducated serfs
in the world’s last major feudal monarchy
and expect them to
Pay, Pray, and Obey.
Though it may have named us,
Institutional Church, as it is now,
can never name our Children.
Thank God.
Love, John Chuchman
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