Vatican Wages War on So Called Radically Feminist Nuns
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The world is exploding with people, threatening our natural resources, and the Catholics are partly responsible. Their stance on birth control and abortion prohibits a sensible approach to parental planning. In some African countries, gays are brutally tortured and murdered and the Catholics are partly responsible. Their position on homosexuality has caused leaders and churchgoers to take the Catholic position literally .
Millions of people in the United States alone are without health care and the bill enacted into law by the Obama administration to help these people is threatened by the Catholics because of the inclusion of abortion and contraceptive funding.
Ironically, there is a group within the church itself that is working to cure these Catholic woes and that is the 57K strong Leadership Conference of Women Religious, in other words, nuns. Unfortunately the Pope and the gang in power at the Vatican don’t see such a cure as a good thing. On the contrary they see the activist nuns as little more than radical feminists who would undermine the centuries old teachings of the church and have ordered an investigation and retraining of these errant sisters.
“I’m stunned,” said Sister Simone Campbell, executive director of Network, a Catholic social justice lobby founded by sisters. Her group was also cited in the Vatican document, along with the Leadership Conference, for focusing its work too much on poverty and economic injustice, while keeping “silent” on abortion and same-sex marriage.
“I can only infer that there was strong feeling about the health care position that we had taken,” Campbell said. “Our position on health care was application of the one faith to a political document that we read differently than the bishops.”
Shame! How dare the sisters actually try to do something to help the poor? That sort of nonsense is only addressed in the Bible, certainly not in real life, and certainly not in the gilded halls of the Vatican.
The Vatican orthodoxy watchdog announced Wednesday a full-scale overhaul of the largest umbrella group for nuns in the United States, accusing the group of taking positions that undermine Roman Catholic teaching on the priesthood and homosexuality while promoting “certain radical feminist themes incompatible with the Catholic faith.”
In Catholic parlance a “full scale overhaul” is tantamount to disbanding the organization while it works to retrain its members through indoctrination, discipline, and church brainwashing methods. No doubt the leaders of this rebellious poverty hating, health care loving group will be treated most harshly for having sinned against the Almighty Father in Rome.
An American archbishop was appointed to oversee reform of the Leadership Conference of Women Religious, which will include rewriting the group’s statutes, reviewing all its plans and programs — including approving speakers — and ensuring the organization properly follows Catholic prayer and ritual.
The report from the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith said the organization faced a “grave” doctrinal crisis, in which issues of “crucial importance” to the church, such as abortion and euthanasia, have been ignored. Vatican officials also castigated the group for making some public statements that “disagree with or challenge positions taken by the bishops,” who are the church’s authentic teachers of faith and morals.”
The bishops are “the church’s authentic teachers of faith and morals?” I doubt many people have forgotten the ongoing scandal involving pedophile priests and their cover up cronies, the bishops. Placing these red robed robbers in charge of faith and morals is akin to putting the fox in charge of the hen house.
When the Vatican-ordered inquiry was initially announced, many religious sisters and their supporters said the investigation reflected church officials’ misogyny and was an insult to religious sisters, who run hospitals, teach, and play other vital service roles in the church. Conservative Catholics, however, have long complained that the majority of sisters in the U.S. have grown too liberal and flout church teaching.
If one thinks the republicans win the prize for misogyny they would be mistaken as the Catholics make people like Mitt Romney and Rick Santorum look like liberal thinkers. guided by the people which encourages and teaches the subjugation of women, the Catholics have kept women in the background for centuries, viewing them not as vassals of Christ, like the priests, but as servants dedicated to doing the bidding of the “men,” just as it says in the Bible.
Around the same time of the doctrinal review of the Leadership Conference, the Vatican ordered an Apostolic Visitation, or investigation, of all American congregations for religious sisters, looking at quality of life, the response to dissent and “the soundness of doctrine held and taught” by the women. The results of that inquiry have not been released.
The report released Wednesday paints a scathing portrait of the Leadership Conference of Women’s Religious as consistently violating Catholic teaching.
Investigators cited a speech by Sister Laurie Brink at an annual assembly that argued that religious sisters were “‘moving beyond the church’ or even beyond Jesus.” Brink is a professor at the Catholic Theological Union in Chicago. She did not respond to an email request for comment.
The Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith said the Leadership Conference had submitted letters that suggest that sisters in leadership teams “collectively take a position not in agreement with the church’s teaching on human sexuality.”
In programs and presentations, investigators noted “a prevalence of certain radical feminist themes incompatible with the Catholic faith.”
“Some commentaries on ‘patriarchy’ distort the way in which Jesus has structured sacramental life in the church,” the authors of the report wrote. The investigation also found that while the Leadership Conference has emphasized Catholic social justice doctrine, the group has been “silent on the right to life from conception to natural death, a question that is part of the lively public debate about abortion and euthanasia in the United States.
The so-called reform will be managed by Seattle Archbishop Peter Sartain and could stretch over five long years.
Nick Cafardi, an Obama supporter, canon lawyer and former dean of Duqesne Law School, said he has worked over the years with many nuns and that the description in the report does not reflect his experience with them.
“I don’t know any more holy people,” Cafardi said of American religious sisters. “I see a lot more holiness in the convents than I see in the chancery.”
Thanks to The N.Y. Daily News for parts of this story.
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Rev., then you need to contact the nuns asap, because they need a home. What is about to happen to them is horrible, and it is not right that a bunch of asshats in Italy can decide if a woman in america should have the right to something or not. I don’t agree with your or any religion, as an atheist, I wouldn’t. I do not agree with using dogma to brainwash someone against what is in the best interest for them. That nuns realize this is a huge step forward for the catholic church. This is though the church that had the templar knights killed, so I shouldn’t be surprised by the lack of human kindness.
The Episcopal Church Welcomes All.
It’s still beyond me how women, nuns or not, can still bow to a dogma like the Catholic Church knowing that the Vatican is run by a bunch of hypocritical, narrow minded, misogynistic pedophiles who cover each other’s backside in case one of them decides to get too frisky. Nothing, I mean nothing, disturbs me more than the rich boys’ sex club produced by Pope Poop and his minions. Too bad there is no hell, because those child abusers would be the first to be tortured in that imaginary inferno. If there was a god, he/she/it would never have allowed religion to exist in the first place. That’s my opinion and I’m stickin’ to it.
Religion is a twisted paradigm indeed. The very idea that someone can believe in the nonsense propagated by the Bible and the churches astonishes me. While the majority of religious are poor and uneducated there are also millions of people who are not. How could a scientist, for example, believe in the silliness of resurrection, virgin birth, and creationism? That’s my opinion and I’m stickin’ to it 🙂
If I were in the nuns shoes, I would tell Rome and the Pope to fuck themselves. They are standing for what is right by defending the poor, the sick and standing by other women. I am proud of every one of them that does not bow to this tourture. They should leave the catholic church in protest. How many catholics would stay in the religion if all of the nuns leave? Are they not as respected as any priest or bishop? If you are a reasonable catholic, would you not question and criticize a priest or bishop or cardinal who suddenly made his nuns out to be villians? I am not a catholic, but have met a few nuns in my day, and most of them are sweet kind hearted women who do good things. I can’t say the same for most male clergy members of the catholic church that I have met. The nuns should not take this lying down. At least they understand humanity and kindness, and not just dogma.
The problem with the nuns leaving the church is that is akin to leaving one’s job. They would find themselves without support or income and Rome knows this and that gives them the upper hand.