In the April 12 edition of the Catholic News Herald, Rick Menze, chairman of the Diocese of Charlotte’s Review Board, states in his opinion “there is a lack of hierarchical discipline which must be corrected and institutional arrogance which must be eradicated throughout the Church before healing can truly occur.”
Perhaps two quotes will point us in the right direction in this regard: First, “People do not put new wine into old wineskins.
Otherwise, the skins burst, the wine spills out and the skins are ruined. Rather, they pour new wine into fresh wineskins, and both are preserved.” (Mt 9:16-17).
And second, from Albert Einstein: “We can’t solve problems by using the same kind of thinking we used when we created them.”
Barbara Withem lives in Lenoir.