Comments From Our Readers (Updated February 3, 2011)

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George and Anita,

I am very sad to see your files go away. I have enjoyed reading your writings and working with you both these last few years. Marcia and I feel extremely privileged to have had the opportunity to learn and benefit from your experience as well as enjoy your company. We wish you well with your memoirs and anticipate an exciting account of two people who clearly stand out as ones to emulate.

Good luck in all your adventures and please keep in touch.

Cathy and Marcia

February 3, 2011

Dear George and Anita,

Although I have never posted a comment before, I have been a loyal reader of the Eppley Files for many years.  I have appreciated your thoughtful reflections and will certainly miss seeing the e-mail announcing a new one was available.  Thank you for providing such thought-provoking pieces.  I will miss them!

I wish you many blessings and much joy!

Mary Ann Fischer

February 8, 2011

Hello, George

Thank you for sharing Mr. Picard's essay with your readers. His passion for institutional church reform reminds me of your own essays on so many occasions of the Eppley files where you challenge the status quo and remind us that reform means awakening. Now comes Mr. Picard, whose skilled and provocative message, written with unmistakable talent and sincere reflection, again reminding your readers not to give up but to partner with others of the same mind. Again, thank you, and thanks to you, Mr. Picard, for sharing your stirring message with us!

Eileen Teare

Thanks, George, for passing this essay along!  Very well stated.

Jerry Sheehan

Would that his Eminence, the Most Rev. Richard G. Lennon read this essay.  I predict his inflated ego would just toss it aside.

Dr. Joe Hoelscher

It feels like more and more folks are troubled by what the institutional Church, the hierarchical Church lists as highest priorities: latinization of our vernacular, incessant apologies for past sins, duplication of like-minded bishops, "blaming" Jesus for their tenacious hold on celibacy and dismissal of ordination for women, sacred serfdom, and the safe space of "mental reservation" for bishops only. 

Let the truth see the light of day. Why does the Church prefer the recesses of the Congregations for this and that? When I was a kid, we stopped playing with the neighbor kid that kept making up his own rules.

Even the children shake their heads. My Jesuit trained son can see past the mirrors. He knows honest when he sees it.

A lady who taught me how to eat fire once described an idol as "anything you are not allowed to laugh at." I will not let the Church be an idol. I laugh out loud.

Yes, reform. Refinement, in a really freaking hot fire. Impurities will not endure. The good stuff won't mind the anvil as long as the Spirit wields the hammer. 

Leave your number and walk away. The only way to get the attention of failed leadership is to stop following.

Thanks Bill. Thanks George.

"It ain't those parts of the Bible that I can't understand that bother me. It's the parts that I do understand."     Mark Twain

Bob Kloos
bkloos@sbcglobal.net

Especially liked Picard's essay. Great insights.

Paul Hritz

George,

Thanks for Picard's outstanding essay.

Paul Wysocki

Dear George,
 
With all the terrible happenings in our world  today What a gift we have experienced in the miracle of the miners being brought out to the light of day and those who made it possible. Praise God.

Pat Burke

Thanks, George for spreading the word. Isn't it great to know you don't sit alone in your room and conjure up a lot of thoughts wondering "am I alone thinking all this stuff?"

Like I said before, George, you are a great affirmer.   I am sure Jesus was just that.

Bill Picard