Sunday, April 29, 2012

AMERICAN NUNS: Need our support...



I have written before on the Vatican war on American nuns but today, The New York Times addressed the subject brilliantly.

Maureen Dowd wrote “Bishops Play Church Queens as Pawns” where she end her piece by saying “The pope needs what the rest of us got from nuns: a good rap across the knuckles” and by Nicholas D. Kristof “We Are All Nuns” where he asked “Look at the pope and the nuns. Who’s more like Jesus?”

One of the big points both columnists bring out is the total idiocy of a church going after nuns who do so much good in the world while remaining silent for so many years about their priests’ sordid pedophilia.

Dowd calls church leaders a bunch of adolescent boys, blinded by sex. I agree and add that those “boys” are also infatuated with their own power but not realizing how fundamentally ignorant they are about normal and natural life on earth among normal and natural humans in whose world they do not function much less understand.

Kristof writes that the work of nuns is what gives the church humanity. Church leaders have a lot to learn from nuns in America and from women in general and yet they maintain that they are “the church’s authentic teachers of faith and morals” and the nuns are not listening to their instructions and must be taught, once again, to shut up and obey!

I say that the Catholic Church, because of its leaders, has lost credibility with its own constituency and can not in all seriousness, try to impose their incredibly naïve views on the Catholic population.

It appears that the nuns in America are gaining a huge support network because of the Vatican’s attack on them and this war on religious women is morphing into a more general attack on women in general by conservatives in this country who like the pope and his bishops, wants to keep their paternalistic grip on the weaker but oh, so much more smarter, sex.

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