text: IMHO Fr Flannery is a man of courage, integrity, humility, and faith -- a prophet who has known suffering and reaches out to others in theirs. I wish I had some of his courage.  Injustice and discrimination must be confronted, and  there is the cross.
  
  As he says on his blog, "The Mass, the Eucharist, is not in the ownership of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, or indeed of the Vatican. It belongs to the believing communities. That was where it began in the early Church, and where it finds its true meaning". Our commitment is to the person Jesus, not to a set of laws and definitions set up by an institution to protect itself.
  
  When Jesus said, "wherever two or more are gathered in my name I am with them", he said nothing about the gender of the minister, the need for faculties, the place of gathering, etc. Tony is reaching out to folks in Jesus' name, not trying to keep them out. The institution does that.