Hi Alexandra,

For the record Claw knows nothing of me anymore than I only know BOff, her or you but by your actions & words.

So I will tell you who I am.  I was called to priesthood in my youth. The rejection of me as a human being was so crushing that I left our church, sank into really deep self hatred & depression like many rejected & hated women of our church.  It has taken decades & I am not fully healed of its effects.  Gender hatred rapes the soul.

If Boff, Claw, or this pope cared about the poor then they would study what the world health orgs. & charitable orgs. discerned as to why poverty & violence starts & persists in our world instead of act like poor people & read & write theology books. 

Poverty is born of Sexism as one of its most powerful roots.   Religious sexism has been proven to cause poverty, violence, terrorism (Malala was right), illiteracy, slavery, & many other woes. 

I got that from studying facts not theology. If you want to end poverty, fight sexism.