Last week a justice of the appellate court in Illinois, Sheila O'Brien, opined in the Chicago Tribune that she wanted to be excommunicated from the Catholic Church, essentially because of the asserted corruption of its leaders, as evidenced by sexual scandals in Europe, the Vatican's asserted less than forthright response to them, and the Vatican's simultaneous announcement that those who ordained women as Catholic priests would be excommunicated.
Yesterday an appropriate response was filed as a letter to the editor by a Max Douglas Brown of River Forest, in which he said that he, as a convert, thinks mostly of parishioners as comprising the church.
He said he sits in the back of the church at St. Luke's in River Forest. "From this vantage point, I have a panoramic view of the church and as I look around, I behold such a variety of people -- all shapes, all types, all races, young and old. These people are the church that O'Brien would leave behind."
I can only say, "Well said, fellow Catholic!"
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