Kate Schieferecke and Jane Lindamood
Recorded
October 2, 2021
Archived
October 2, 2021
53:14 minutes
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Id:
hub000418
Description
One Small Step conversation partners Kate Schiefereke (24) and Jane Lindamood (53) discuss major influences in their life, human diversity, the church and politics.Subject Log / Time Code
- Both speak of why they wanted to have a conversation.
- Jane Lindamood (JL) reads Kate Schiefereke's (KS) biography.
- KS reads JL's biography.
- KS speaks of her passion for human diversity.
- JL explains what she called, "the holy confusion of post Vatican II."
- KS discusses the influences of her life.
- KS, "I want to define my life by love rather than accomplishment."
- KS, "I try not to be the main character in the stories I write."
- JL speaks of her parents as influences.
- JL speaks of her grandmother's passing.
- JL speaks of the importance of helping others.
- JL speaks of her political leanings and her love for community.
- Kate discusses her political views focused on human dignity.
- KS asks JL about Catholic social teaching and Jane addressed clerical abuses.
- JL discusses how Catholics "turned their heads aways from the abused."
- JL, "Pope Francis may be the person to address the issues, but I don't have faith that the clerics will let Francis progress."
- KS discusses what keeps her in the Church.
- KS, "The human side of the Church is very broken, but the Divine part of the Church is the strength. This truth is the profound part of my faith."
- JL asks KS to define and describe Catholic social teachings.
- KS describes how she balances the teachings spiritually and in reality.
- JL discussed how she balances acting locally without political raminfications.
- KS, "It sucks, but I continue to work toward upholding human dignity. I vote republican in the primaries so we can vote out the crazy people."
- JL, "If a two party system is going to work, both sides have to be functioning and reasonable."
- JL, "Is it possible to vote out 'the crazies'?"
- KS, "Something has to change: I hope that people of the faith have to realize that politics is not a place to practice faith."
- Jane quotes Sister Chidester's admonition toward a deeper notion of what "pro-life" means.
- Kate, "We can't define a party by one issue."
Participants
- Kate Schieferecke
- Jane Lindamood