Day 3 at USCCB Mtg | National Catholic Reporter

Day 3 at USCCB Mtg | National Catholic Reporter by MSW. MGB: The day actually sounds interesting - its where the real work is done - by knowing who your brothers are (sadly, there are still no sisters on the team, even though we have a surplus of Abbesses  who would make wonderful apostles, as did St. Junia (not an abbess, she was married).  It will be interesting to see who is going to the Synod this year.  If Burke is not on the list, anything is an improvement, but the anti-gay marriage chair would be unfortunate, unless he has a change of heart.  Even then, having someone in Rome argue that side from conviction is valuable - but I hope he can still see the other side, not just on civil gay marriage but sacramental gay marriage (which is coming).  What is more important than the representative is the representation of the people in the pews.  This is not an exercise for Chancery staff (save that they compile and submit the results).  This is seeing what we have to say.  I would have sacramental marriage happen next week, in a Mass in the Extraordinary Form (the priest and the couple could each do the Magna Cappa).  I suspect most others want something more gradual, at least until their daughter and her future wife simply must be married in the parish in which they were both baptized.  Ironically, that is the sad thing, that people like Cardinal Burke find it inconceivable that someone can be both devout and gay and that this is fine.