I was wondering if the Vatican was sleeping or was it
about to give me some more food for thought and they did not disappoint…VATICAN
ORDERS CRACKDOWN ON ‘RADICAL’ NUNS IN THE U.S.
I have been taught by nuns from grade school through high
school and most of those nuns I do not hold in any regard but a few, I hold in
the highest regard especially my chorale teacher in high school that made my
days there just so much more enjoyable (she has since left the order) and a
chubby nun that taught me advanced English because she dared to stand up to the
order when they banned books she thought we all should read.
So I guess my favorite nuns were those that stood up for
what they thought was right and proper and not for what they were told was
right and proper and so it is not a surprise that I will cheer today’s nuns in
their efforts to change the way the old farts in the Vatican think and act.
The LEADERSHIP CONFERENCE OF WOMEN RELIGIOUS represents some
57,000 catholic nuns in the U.S.
and this is the group that has drawn the Vatican ’s ire.
I think what prompted all this is the fact that the nuns did
not agree with the bishops when the bishops attacked Obama’s healthcare plan
and especially his contraceptives directive that mandated insurance plans to
cover contraceptive expenses. (See my previous blog on that issue).
Some of the Vatican charges
include “they take a position not in agreement with the church’s teaching on
human sexuality” and “a prevalence of certain radical feminist themes
incompatible with the Catholic faith” and “undermining Roman Catholic teachings
on homosexuality and remaining silent on the issue of abortion and euthanasia”.
Bishops are trying to get them back into convents and into
flying nun costumes and to bow to their authority while Sister Sandra M. Schneiders, professor of theology at the Jesuit School of Theology at Berkeley says “Whereas we are religious, we’re living the life of total dedication to Christ, and out of that flows a profound concern for the good of humanity. So our vision of our lives, and their vision of us as a work force, is just not on the same planet.”
I think Sister Schneiders speaks volumes about the
difference between nuns and the old geezers in the Vatican ; they care about humanity
but they just care about being in-charge and telling you stupid ideas about how
to behave as humans.
It is becoming more evident on a daily basis that the Vatican is losing its grip on Catholics
worldwide but especially in the United
States because their ideas and so called
teachings are INCOMPATIBLE with how humans behave and need to behave.
The recent attention being paid to the rise of women as a
force in our world is mainly because men have so fucked up the world that women
need to step up and start helping bring sanity back.
I think the nuns, as women first, have a natural instinct to
nurture and not just to order around and punish. They understand the role of
women in society and know that men pretending that they know what is best for
women and for that matter, families in general, is just a bunch of bullshit and
masculine ego and the Vatican is very full of both. If nuns had power in the
church, we would not have had the sexual abuse that went on for decades and
included thousands of innocent children; they would have cut their balls of as
soon as they heard of the crimes and not move those predators to other parishes
to abuse new children.
The Vatican
has lost its leadership role in the church and in society as a whole; they just
don’t get it anymore and they need to be put out to pasture.
I hope American Catholics will gather in support of the U.S. nuns as the Vatican tries to make them their
obedient slaves once again; get your own fucking tea your eminence!
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