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Who wrote this wonderful “creed”?  I love it!

rcfed said:

Forget anonymity. Once you’ve been baptized, the Catholic Church considers you a Catholic forever. Like Hotel California, you can check out anytime but you can never leave.

1. We admit that our spiritual lives were carjacked by Catholic guilt and shame and we want our ride back.
2. Came to believe that sanity is best defined by women who do humor and fabulous shoes.
3. Closed the dogma closet and outfited our own spiritual lives instead of wearing outdated habits.
4. Made a searching and fearless inventory of our warped perspectives, irrational guilt, lurking shame, and ugly church clothes.
5. Stopped confessing the exact nature of our wrongs to unseen strangers lurking in dark closets.
6. Were entirely ready to forgive our own defects of character and to celebrate the fabulous in ourselves and others.
7. Humbly asked God to remove all sin that isn’t strikingly original.
8. Made a list of all persons we had harmed and a second of list of those who really deserved it.
9. Made sure that persons we had wrongly harmed got sent good Karma on Facebook® and a bottle of Cuervo® margaritas to help them forget what we’ve done to them.
10. Continued to take inventory of our closet and decide how to best help the American economy recover.
11. Sought conscious contact with God without relying on intermediaries in bad hats.
12. Having had an awakening as a result of these steps, we share with other RCGs and live our lives with humor and sass.

I think this list is brilliant. I really love number 5. I don't think I have quite given that one up yet though I have tried for decades. I don't think we ever stop confessing – to someone – anyone who will listen. The dark closets. There were more dark closets than just confessional booths. To an incest victim the dark closet could be any room, my bedroom. To be trained that is what one does when confronted by a man in a small room is the sickest thing imaginable. And the parallel to this still done every day even with strangers, at least in our thoughts if not our words. Thank you for humor as through it we can look at this reality and see it for the sickness it really is.