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Crackdown ordered on American nuns

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Vatican orders crackdown on American nuns

WASHINGTON — The Vatican has launched a crackdown on the umbrella group that represents most of America’s 55,000 Catholic nuns, saying that the group was not speaking out strongly enough against gay marriage, abortion and women’s ordination.

Rome also chided the Leadership Conference of Women Religious (LCWR) for sponsoring conferences that featured “a prevalence of certain radical feminist themes incompatible with the Catholic faith.”
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Those uppity women need to be put back in their place!
 
Jeez, they're already up the proverbial creek without a paddle and now they want to tip over the canoe. This won't end well.
 
So, wait, wait... it's not that those are saying anything in favour of gay marriage or anything, but just... errr... what? Aren't rabid enough against it to be proper Catholics?

I have bad news for his assholiness. If you only count the most rabid fanboys as good enough for you, then, congrats, you've just made yourself one of the smallest denominations ever.
 
HansMustermann said:
So, wait, wait... it's not that those are saying anything in favour of gay marriage or anything, but just... errr... what? Aren't rabid enough against it to be proper Catholics?

I have bad news for his assholiness. If you only count the most rabid fanboys as good enough for you, then, congrats, you've just made yourself one of the smallest denominations ever.
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But they're *nuns*. They're supposed to toe the party line!

:rolleyes:
 
But apparently they do toe the line. Just apparently they're not as mindlessly rabid about it as his assholiness would like.
 
This thread is not what I expected it to be. Neither is it what it should be.

I am shocked.
 
the catholic church couldn't stop its clerics from violating children, but by god will they stamp down on the terrible scourge of not disapproving of gay marriage vocally enough.
 
Lamuella said:
the catholic church couldn't stop its clerics from violating children, but by god will they stamp down on the terrible scourge of not disapproving of gay marriage vocally enough.
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Cos that's what The Gulli-bible says you should do.
 
You know, you would think that the dimwits in Rome would read the writing on the wall facing numbers like this--------

"The number of nuns in America has dropped from 179,954 in 1965 to just 55,000 today."

Also--------

"Benedict gave the CDF the go-ahead to take action against the LCWR in January 2011, more than a year ago."

What are they going to do, de-nun them?:confused:
 
Uncle Otto said:
You know, you would think that the dimwits in Rome would read the writing on the wall facing numbers like this--------

"The number of nuns in America has dropped from 179,954 in 1965 to just 55,000 today."

Also--------

"Benedict gave the CDF the go-ahead to take action against the LCWR in January 2011, more than a year ago."

What are they going to do, de-nun them?:confused:
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They're going to be nun-chucked.
 
If I were forced to do crack off of a nun, I'm not sure I'd pick an American nun...

Oh, wait...
 
HansMustermann said:
But apparently they do toe the line. Just apparently they're not as mindlessly rabid about it as his assholiness would like.
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Social activism isn't uncommon among the female religious, e.g. Sr. Stan, along with charitable work. It seems the Vatican, or at least the former rotweiller of orthodoxy, feels their efforts should be better focussed on opposing access to legal abortion, opposing marriage equality et cetera.
The support of LCWR and Network for US health care reform was particularly annoying to the hierarchy.

However in conjunction with other actions, like the silencing of Tony Flannery (exiled to a monastery to contemplate his sins), this crackdown may prove counter-productive to the aim of maintaining Roman control.
 
catsmate1 said:
Social activism isn't uncommon among the female religious, e.g. Sr. Stan, along with charitable work. It seems the Vatican, or at least the former rotweiller of orthodoxy, feels their efforts should be better focussed on opposing access to legal abortion, opposing marriage equality et cetera.
The support of LCWR and Network for US health care reform was particularly annoying to the hierarchy.

However in conjunction with other actions, like the silencing of Tony Flannery (exiled to a monastery to contemplate his sins), this crackdown may prove counter-productive to the aim of maintaining Roman control.
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I'm sure they'll be asking what the Romans ever done for them.
 
Uncle Ratty really wants to turn his ship around backwards.

Well, more backwards than it already is.
 
Resume said:
Uncle Ratty really wants to turn his ship around backwards.

Well, more backwards than it already is.
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There are distressing signs of independent thought, these need to be quashed.

Why recently some Seattle PP's declined to use their pulpits and churches to gather signature for a (church endorsed) referendum to overturn the Washington state marriage equality law, including in the archdiocesan cathedral.....................
Phrases like "he couldn’t in good conscience allow signature gathering" were used.
Archbishop Sartrain was not amused. :rolleyes:
 
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