Comments on: The Other Catholic Church http://www.myhusbandbetty.com/2010/04/28/the-other-catholic-church/ helen boyd's journal of gender & trans issues Wed, 08 Feb 2012 01:17:33 -0500 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.3 By: jadecath http://www.myhusbandbetty.com/2010/04/28/the-other-catholic-church/comment-page-1/#comment-63387 jadecath Mon, 03 May 2010 16:20:00 +0000 http://www.myhusbandbetty.com/?p=10188#comment-63387 Probably every huge organization suffers the problem of entrusting the worst people with leadership while some of the best ones work heroically in obscurity. For all the spiritual talk wrapped around it, I think the church's problem comes down to no more and no less than a bad case of pointy-haired-boss-itis. And strict gender restrictions sure don't help with that! It's pathetic when the PHB is bungling a company that's supposed to make widgets and quarterly earnings reports; it's searingly painful when the job being bungled is that of helping connect people with God. Probably every huge organization suffers the problem of entrusting the worst people with leadership while some of the best ones work heroically in obscurity. For all the spiritual talk wrapped around it, I think the church’s problem comes down to no more and no less than a bad case of pointy-haired-boss-itis. And strict gender restrictions sure don’t help with that!

It’s pathetic when the PHB is bungling a company that’s supposed to make widgets and quarterly earnings reports; it’s searingly painful when the job being bungled is that of helping connect people with God.

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