JIM RICE'S "SINS of the Fathers" and Rose Marie Berger's "Managing the Erotic Life" (May-June 2002) were much too coy about male supremacy's major role in maintaining sexual promiscuity and abuse in the church. Until we insist that all men take equal responsibility for patriarchy, we're going to continue having these scandals in the church. The pedophile scandals in Catholicism are nothing compared to priests' sexual abuse of nuns. Stay tuned.
Joanne Callahan
Garland, Texas
This appears in the September-October 2002 issue of Sojourners
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