Navigating the Zeitgeist. Helena Sheehan
still wrestled with basic cosmological questions. For my PhD, I took courses in religion, philosophy, and history, primarily at Temple, but also at the University of Pennsylvania and City University of New York. Many of my fellow graduate students were Catholics, some of them ex-priests in the first days of their laicized lives. They were great company and we had much in common, but they were still within the Church in ways that I wasn’t. They would react indignantly to the latest statement by Cardinal Krol, but I no longer cared what he said. They were organizing underground masses. They sang and played guitar beautifully, but I couldn’t believe with them that bread and wine became the body and blood of Christ. They asked me to sign a petition supporting the ordination of women. I would have gladly done so a few years earlier, but since I no longer saw the point of having priests at all, the gesture felt pointless.
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