Homily:Bishop Tom Gumbleton

"I think of how, within the last two weeks, there's a new decree from Rome condemning women who have in any way participated in ordination of women, Instead of listening to what's happening in the world around us, and instead of accepting the fact that there's nowhere in the gospels that says women can't be ordained; instead of listening to women and why they want to enter into roles of servant leadership in the church, we condemn them, excommunicate them. I think that's wrong, very wrong, if you take into consideration the way Jesus was... "
This quote is from a homily given at St. Hilary Parish in Redford, Mi.
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Note: Bishop Gumbleton's brother Jerry and sister-in-law Marion attend Mary, Mother of Jesus House Church in Sarasota, Florida.