Feminist “Catholic” Author and Lecturer Denies the Diocese of Phoenix Permission to Tape Nun’s Retreat Instruction
Edwina Gateley, a Catholic laywoman and author of 10 books, got cold feet and opted out of her speaking engagement, when informed her seminar would be taped in order to review content during a retreat at a Franciscan Renewal Center. She stood to lose $4,000 from the canceled engagement, but two unidentified women who thought it best to remain anonymous covered the costs to speak at a series of alternative events during the same time frame. Since her feminist theology of a feminine god is well known, I have my suspicions about the retreat organizers and the 20 nuns who signed up to hear her.
Gateley insists that her refusal of being recorded is due to the producers of her copy written material forbidding outside tapings of her talks, but is more likely the manifestation of her fundamental rejection of authority along with the fear and insecurity that comes from being denied the total control to which she is accustomed.
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There is nothing in copyright law that prohibits an author speaking about the content of a book they wrote. There would have to be a specific licensing agreement that would prohibit this. If she can’t produce this, she is a liar.
Comment by Hennepin — April 13, 2007 @ 7:24 pm