Big Trouble

Spotting a headline,

in a major national newspaper,

I see that an American Catholic Nun

has written her views.

Her ideas have now been

supported by a variety of religious colleagues

and forthwith denied and denigrated

by the Pope

with pronouncements to support his

continuing refusal of feminism.

Like witch hunting, and white-gloved, too. 

Who’s made up such rules?

Their survival such a bleeding blight

on parched landscapes

which how can he say he has not raped.

Is it any wonder, 

perhaps it is a blessing,

his abusive reactions, rejection of some desires,

human needs, basic rights

That, instead of a longer life, 

he may incite his earlier demise,

a suggestion most unlikely,

simply another possibility,

albeit plenty it seems would happily fill his same place.

File Name: 2012 June 6.  Big Trouble.  Re American Catholic Nun.