Re: Sr. Campbell and the conference in Rome

The Conference is always scheduled for the same time each year. Somehow, the MEN in Rome manage to schedule a retreat or some other excuse to avoid facing the women even though they know long in advance when it will be held. So one must assume the scheduling conflict is intended.

 It seems that many of the men in charge of this church, from Rome to the parishes, are afraid of dealing with women, of working WITH women, and even cut and run because they fear facing women at this conference.

The men hide, indeed they do. .  Sr. Campbell is right on that, but it's not because they are afraid of having their hearts broken, it's because they don't really care at all. She has it right - they care about their own power. They are also afraid of what facing up to what they did, and facing up to how they treat women as well as children in this church, might do to their un-well-formed consciences, consciences that seem to have died long ago..