We are such a broken, fallible church ...

"We are, after all, the church of the Medicis and the Borgias, the Papal States and the Avignon Papacy, the Documents of Discovery and anti-Modernism, the condemnation of "mixed" marriages and the rejection of the U.S. policy of separation of church and state. It may behoove us to be a bit more compassionate in our condemnations and a bit more humble in our attempts at political dialogue."

Thus writes Sister Joan Chittister, who is "a Benedictine Sister of Erie [and] a best-selling author and well-known international lecturer on topics of justice, peace, human rights, women's issues, and contemporary spirituality in the Church and in society."  Read the column in which Sister Joan made the above-quoted statement, here.