Thoughts on Fr. Schuller's Tour | National Catholic Reporter

Thoughts on Fr. Schuller's Tour | National Catholic Reporter by MSW.  MGB: Shuller is absolutely right about rights and democracy.  The early Church was not a medieval autocracy and should stop being so now.  Indeed, scripture says that lay deacons should control property, not apostles.  It also shows apostles traveling in married pairs and that in reality, the office of overseer was more akin to a Pastor than a Bishop.  St. John Newman's views that the current organization was a hidden kernal that existed in the prior form is simply a justification, not a fact.  It is up to us to say how the Church is to be organized in the present and future - and if we don't like what the bishops are doing - including allowing the sexual abuse of minors to go unpunished - than the fault is truly ours in continuing with our consent - as with rights come responsibilities.  As for the Eucharist, our joining into it is a sign of our unity in Christ from our Baptism into his death and resurrection.  Finally, as to the perversion of what was a good start in liberal theology - only you can answer why you became a defender of the status quo when the status quo is rotten.  It was not the liberals who ruined the modern church, it was and is the conservative elements who believe they cannot ever err on sexual morality - even though it is obviously rooted in misogyny.