We Are Not Made For War

"In a couple of months we will be going to Nicaragua and then on to Peru," Bourgeois said. "We are not going away."

Lest you think Father Bourgeois concentrates only on injustice done by the US military, just ask the Vatican. Bourgeois is an outspoken critic of the Catholic Church's refusal to ordain women and the Church's staunch support of anti-gay legislation.

"The root of this teaching (non-ordination of women) is sexism," Bourgeois said. "And having grown up with racism in a small Southern town, I can say sexism, like racism, is wrong. It is discrimination and it is not the way of a loving god who has called us all equal. No one can say they are superior to anyone."

"This is serious stuff," he said in reply to the Catholic Church's support of anti-gay legislation making its way through state constitutional amendments. "They are using Church money to discriminate and that is not what god teaches."

Father Roy's personal journey of conscious-raising is captured in his new book My Journey from Silence to Solidarity. More information on the book can be found here .

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