Posted on 06/14/2012 6:31:54 PM PDT by Kaslin
Interviewing Sister Simone Campbell, executive director of the liberal Catholic group NETWORK, on her Thursday MSNBC show host Andrea Mitchell touted the organization's effort "to rally opposition to Paul Ryan's proposed health care cuts" with a nationwide "Nuns on the Bus" tour. In part, Campbell ranted that they wanted to make sure "our nation's soul is not corrupted further by the House Ryan budget."
Campbell began by touting Catholic bishops "who also say that the House-passed Ryan budget is actually immoral," and proclaimed that she and her left-wing colleagues, "know how terribly important it is that the American public understand the problems, the huge problems in the House-passed budget and that we need to educate the American people."
Mitchell praised Campbell's efforts: "...you really are raising all sorts of issues, and issues that really do affect women, primarily, women and children, and those, as you say, at the margins of our society economically." Campbell admitted: "Our process is really a political process. Lifting up our faith to push back, to use it for mission so that...the people that were cared about by Jesus, the poor, or the least and the last, as we sometimes say, that they are lifted up and the focus is on them and their needs."
Wrapping up the segment, Mitchell promised: "We will follow the Nuns on the Bus, your tour next week." Campbell enthusiastically replied: "Oh, do follow us, it's going to be a great trip."
On Wednesday, Campbell also appeared on MSNBC's Politics Nations, where host Al Sharpton declared: "There's a war being waged in this country. It's a war against the most vulnerable in our society. For months now, the GOP has relentlessly targeted programs that help the poor....sadly, villainizing the poor has become a rallying cry for the other side."
Introducing Campbell, Sharpton announced: "This isn't American. This isn't right. And it's why a group of Catholic sisters are organizing nuns on the bus. A bus tour that will start in Iowa and then travel through nine states to highlight the cruelty of this legislation." Campbell gushed that it was "an honor" to be Sharpton's guest.
Like with Mitchell, Campbell sounded like a Democratic Party hack:
...this budget that was passed by the House, proposed by Congressman Ryan, erodes the very core of who we are as a nation. Because what it does is it says we no longer believe in community. We no longer believe in caring for each other. We only believe in shifting money to the top. More money to those who are the richest. And giving even more money than the military wants to the military. People don't know these facts. And we need to make it clear.
Here is a portion of Mitchell's June 14 exchange with Campbell on Andrea Mitchell Reports:
1:23PM ET
(...)
Joining me now, is Sister Simone Campbell, who is leading the Network, which is a Catholic social justice lobby. Which starting Monday is going to be on a bus tour, Nuns on a Bus they say, to rally opposition to Paul Ryan's proposed health care cuts. Sister Simone, it's very good to see you. Thank you very much for joining me. Tell me what – what inspired you and your colleagues, your fellow nuns, to take on the bishops, in some cases, and in fact the Vatican?
SISTER SIMONE CAMPBELL: Well, actually what's really interesting about this is we're actually standing with our bishops, who also say that the House-passed Ryan budget is actually immoral. And when the censure came out from the Vatican and Catholic sisters were getting so much attention, we said, well, we're not used to having attention on ourselves. I mean, that's not what we're about. We're about using our opportunities to serve the needs of people who live in poverty. Who live at the margins of society. Who are falling through the cracks of our rather fractured tenuous economy.
And so we came together and I invited help from our colleagues to say, what can we do to lift this moment up? And we know how terribly important it is that the American public understand the problems, the huge problems in the House-passed budget and that we need to educate the American people. And how to do it? Well, it struck us that going on a bus and lifting up these issues might get information out beyond the Beltway, beyond Washington, D.C.
MITCHELL: It's an unusually public role and I know that you waited several months actually after the Vatican censure to decide how to respond. You took your time and you did it in a very contemplative way, but you really are raising all sorts of issues, and issues that really do affect women, primarily, women and children, and those, as you say, at the margins of our society economically.
CAMPBELL: Right. Right. Well, I think we need to make a distinction between the Leadership Conference of Women Religious, who is really the biggest focus of the Vatican criticism. And they have a direct tie to Rome, in that they are like incorporated by Rome, so that their existence depends on Rome's approval. Network, the organization I run, was criticized in this same document as a troublemaker, a suspect organization for LCWR, the women religious, to have a relationship with.
So our response has been a little more public, a little more quickly. The Leadership Conference has had a board meeting, was in Rome earlier this week. And in prayer and reflection we'll be having more meetings this coming weekend and then over the summer in the regions. So that process is going on. Our process is really a political process. Lifting up our faith to push back, to use it for mission so that the people that Jesus responded to in the Gospel, the people that were cared about by Jesus, the poor, or the least and the last, as we sometimes say, that they are lifted up and the focus is on them and their needs. And our nation's soul is not corrupted further by the House Ryan budget.
(...)
Here is a portion of Sharpton's June 13 exchange with Campbell on Politics Nation:
SHARPTON: Welcome back to Politics Nation. There's a war being waged in this country. It's a war against the most vulnerable in our society. For months now, the GOP has relentlessly targeted programs that help the poor. Today was the latest example. Senator Ryan Paul offered up an amendment to the Senate for their farm bill that would cut food stamp spending by 45 percent next year. Is that really how we should be fixing this economy? By taking food out of the mouths of hungry children? No, it`s not. But sadly, villainizing the poor has become a rallying cry for the other side.
PAUL RYAN: We don't want to turn this – into a panic. That allows able-bodied people...
MITT ROMNEY: I'm not concerned about the very poor. We have a safety net there.
UNIDENTIFIED MAN: We need people working with jobs, not our saving food stamps.
MICHELE BACHMANN: Our nation needs to stop doing for people what they can and should do for themselves. Self-reliance means if anyone will not work, neither should he eat.
SHARPTON: Neither should he eat. That's outrageous. But it makes sense coming from a party fully behind wrong way Ryan's budget. A budget where 62 percent of the cuts come from low income programs. This isn't American. This isn't right. And it`s why a group of Catholic sisters are organizing nuns on the bus. A bus tour that will start in Iowa and then travel through nine states to highlight the cruelty of this legislation.
Joining me now is Sister Simone Campbell. Executive director of network, a national Catholic social justice lobby. She`s organizing the nuns on the bus tour. Sister Campbell, thanks so much for joining me this evening.
SISTER SIMONE CAMPBELL: It's an honor to be with you.
SHARPTON: Now, why is it so important to you that you and others are speaking against this budget?
CAMPBELL: Well, what we know is that out in the country, people don't know the reality of the budget. They just hear the sound bites of politicians saying, oh, this is wonderful, this is good, this is responsible. And what we know is that this budget that was passed by the house, proposed by Congressman Ryan erodes the very core of who we are as a nation. Because what it does is it says we no longer believe in community. We no longer believe in caring for each other. We only believe in shifting money to the top. More money to those who are the richest. And giving even more money than the military wants to the military. People don`t know these facts. And we need to make it clear. We stand with the people who have – our economy has pushed to the margins.
Which ones are nuns????????????? Just kidding. The black asshole is obviously the nun. I’ve heard of nuns being down on their knees,...but this is ridiculous! Communist hags for Christ!
They spelled "nut" wrong.
Well Sharpton can argue with the Apostle Paul about that.
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LOL , you can see why they want to get rid of the work “ Lunatic “ . it’s the new normal over at MSNBC
The nun is the one who wears the habit - oops! This one forgot hers .. she must’ve left it at the drycleaners ...
It is required that communists strike at the Catholic Church and Sister whatshername fills that bill.
She is not, however, a “nun” but a sister. Nuns are cloistered, do not socialize as a rule, and do not dress in britches and earbobs, but wear what is called a “habit”.
Sister what’s-her-name has bought the full agenda of the communist Left. A relic and retread from the 60’s free love, make peace not war, pacifist era of New Age fertilizer, she intends to redistribute wealth and turn morals and ethics of the Church upside down. Depending on how much rope God allows her, she may succeed for a time, but without a turn and repentance, a major “ouchie” moment will be hers at some point when the bill comes due.
The republicans don’t know how to tell a good story. Today Boenher who was a small business owner, stands in front of a table with a dozen stacks of paper and expalins that they are bills passed to “lower taxes and help small business.” Geez that 3x5 card has been read almost as often as the Obambi telepromter on evel republicans. The need new ways to describe jobs and the role of congress to shrink government. Not one specific idea was spoken by Boenher. Like the fact that folks have to sue the EPA to build in a subdivison or that fracking has created 50,000 jobs in Fort Worth and would add more if the demcrats would get out of the way of working people.
I find myself praying more and more these days.
LOL! Thanks! That was a “gimme”, and I thought the same! :)
She looks like a nun who would whack the hands of a kindergartener with a wooden ruler for some small infraction............
Gary Hart had a sex change? When did that happen?
She is an apostate who is usually arguing with the Pope and her Bishops.
It isn’t surprising in the least that MSNBC would welcome her.
She seems to believe that it is the mission of everyone in life to look out for those who refuse to work have babies by the ton and wait for Charity.
This is easy for her. She doesnt have to earn a living to eat. She is fed by the Church. When you don’t have to work yourself it is easy to say take from those better off to give to those who will not work.
This kind of nun only has bad habits.
For some reason, the Lefty sisters who know better than God refuse to wear the beautiful, flowing habits—or a smile. They're always in these dull, scary, polyester-pants-suit deals, and hair that looks as if it were popped out of a mold. By their dowdiness thou shalt know them.
“Left-wing nun.” Now.....HOW did I know she was going to be fugly? How? I KNEW this before EVEN clicking on this link.
The Vatican has some SERIOUS ‘cleaning house’ to do if they are to survive. And I hope they do. They have been infiltrated.
” When you don’t have to work yourself it is easy to say take from those better off to give to those who will not work. “
Very well said, and also the take away line for defining anti-Americans.
Thanks.
“There’s a war being waged in this country. It’s a war against the most vulnerable in our society.”
The unborn.
Catholics are aware of what you say. After I converted in 2000-01 I was told of a book written on the subject you mention, of the infiltration, the infiltration commonly known as “the smoke of Satan”.
A wise woman of the Church reminded me, however, that if Satan is NOT after the Catholic Church, either from within or without, or both, then it probably isn’t the Catholic Church. This has been so from the Beginning, after all, she told me.
BTW, have to ask....have you seen For Greater Glory yet? Very interesting history that to my surprise has been fairly buried from even the people of Mexico itself.
Don’t forget to include the danged “earbobs”. LOL!
(Which hanging from any orafice just do not help!)
The nation’s soul was corrupted in the 1960s when our government started paying women to have children out-of-wedlock while allowing biological fathers to avoid most all responsibility.
Now we’re just arguing over how to handle the fiscal disaster of which that is such a large part.
Have you seen For Greater Glory yet?
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No, I haven’t yet, but I really want to!!! I have never seen such a vicious attack on Catholicism/Christianity in my lifetime (and I’m Protestant) in this country. We need to stick together and fight!
I’ll never understand the logic of how taking other people’s money and spending it is supposedly more generous / charitable than giving of your own free will. Moreover how apparently wasting money on inefficient health care systems that are in need of reform due to this inefficiency and inevitable bankruptcy is somehow uncompassionate - simply because more money is being spent on something doesn’t make it better. Was she this upset over all the billions and billions of dollars wasted on things like Solyndra that could have been used to help people in need? What about the half trillion dollar cut to Medicare?
Warned you Catholics.
But you know everything.
I appreciate you so much.
I am so impressed with this story and consider the movie a three-timer, before I could begin to pick up on all the pieces of the story’s many nuggets.
Believe it or not I held it together until the credits and information, the original photos of the Christero and the follow up history rolled at the end. Stay for that!
My own opinion... is it does rank right beside The Passion of the Christ, in impact on me. Can’t wait to hear your opinion?
“By their dowdiness thou shalt know them.”
Ha!!! Too funny! The sisters(as RitaOK correctly asserted, they are not “nuns’)who believe themselves above and beyond the Magisterium are pitiful souls; we can only pray for them and the media outlets that lend them any credence...
The Vatican has appointed an American bishop to rein in the largest and most influential group of Catholic nuns in the United States, saying that an investigation found that the group had “serious doctrinal problems.”
The Vatican’s assessment, issued on Wednesday, said that members of the group, the Leadership Conference of Women Religious, had challenged church teaching on homosexuality and the male-only priesthood, and promoted “radical feminist themes incompatible with the Catholic faith.”
Sister Simone Campbell, executive director of Network, a Catholic social justice lobby
“I would imagine that it was our health care letter that made them mad,” Sister Campbell said. “We haven’t violated any teaching, we have just been raising questions and interpreting politics.”
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/04/19/us/vatican-reprimands-us-nuns-group.html
The 47 Sisters voted to form a national “network” of Sisters to lobby for federal policies and legislation that promote economic and social justice. This was the founding of NETWORK, A National Catholic Social Justice Lobby.
In April 1972 they opened a two-person office in Washington, and they were soon joined by more.
During the 1970s, NETWORK’s first home and staff residence served as a center for Washington-area Catholic peace and justice activism. Their Saturday-night liturgies drew activists from throughout the Washington region and beyond. Their justice agenda ranged from global hunger to nuclear weapons and women’s rights. They also conducted legislative seminars that drew hundreds of participants and presenters who included prominent Members of Congress (e.g., Senators Ted Kennedy, Adlai Stevenson, Barbara Mikulski, Walter Mondale and Joseph Biden) and Catholic notables such as Fr. Bryan Hehir.
NETWORK’s impact continued to strengthen in the 1980s and 1990s. In January 2001, President Bill Clinton presented the Presidential Citizens Medal, our nation’s second highest civilian honor, to a NETWORK founder and first Executive Director, Sister Carol Coston. She was the first Catholic Sister ever to receive this award.
Simone Campbell, a lawyer and the executive director of NETWORK, Sisters of Social Service, wrote the “nuns’ letter” supporting the bill and got 59 signers on the letter, including Leadership Conference of Women Religious. The letter received a great deal of media attention, and she was thanked by President Barack Obama and invited to the ceremony celebrating its being signed into law.
Today, NETWORK is also highly visible and active on other critical issues such as peacemaking, comprehensive immigration reform, housing, poverty, federal budget priorities, trade and hunger.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NETWORK_(lobbying_group)
Rita, I will have to see it. From what I’ve read...it’s supposed to be incredible. ‘The Passion Of The Christ’ still brings me to tears to this day.
May not be the most ‘holy’ of peeps....but I KNOW who’s ‘Boss’. ;-)
https://mobile.twitter.com/#!/sr_simone
Sr. Simone Campbell
@sr_simone
Washington DC
NETWORK Executive Director Lawyer, advocate, poet. Catholic Sister, member of the Sisters of Social Service. Noted speaker and educator on public policy.
http://networklobby.org
Sr. Simone Campbell @sr_simone 4h
New experience all this attention. Just taped 4 Lawrence O’Donnell & sad I didn’t do as well. I’m tired! The bus might be a relief.
Sr. Simone Campbell @sr_simone 2d
I’m so grateful for the support! Together we can do this work—community is the way. Now let’s make clear rhe Ryan/House Budget is immoral!
Sr. Simone Campbell @sr_simone 3d
Just did Colbert! What fun a great exchange & a visit with Martin Sheen!
Sr. Simone Campbell @sr_simone 07 May
Obama-care helps small businesses like Network...we’re getting a rebate of $8700 for our ins costs! This is smart for employers & employees
Sr. Simone Campbell @sr_simone 02 May
2 journalists have said their mothers made them do the nuns’ story! Reminded me of the wedding at Cana where a mother gets her son woring!
Sr. Simone Campbell @sr_simone 27 Apr
So glad that the Vatican attempt to change our mission is resulting in a higher profile for us @hardball! A joke of the Holy Spirit?
Sr. Simone Campbell @sr_simone 25 Apr
How moving to be at the Supteme Court as we argue for the soul of our nation-immigrants are us! Human rights for all @interfaithimm
Sr. Simone Campbell @sr_simone 24 Apr
Now I’m at the preyer for immigrant justice in front of the SuprememCourt. Another reason we keep doing our work @interfaithimm
Sr. Simone Campbell @sr_simone 17 Mar
I rejoice that HHS is engaging in 3 months of dialogue about how to make the contraceptive policy work for all in our pluralistic society!
Sr. Simone Campbell @sr_simone 01 Feb
Catholic Bishops are wrong in saying that the Obama Administration is discriminating against them in funding. Truth at bit.ly/xxSNQx
https://mobile.twitter.com/sr_simone?max_id=162007210317185026
Sr. Simone Campbell @sr_simone 25 Jan
Realistic taxes are the way forward. That is fairness. We can’t afford give aways to the rich! We need $ to invest in the future #SOTU
Sr. Simone Campbell @sr_simone 25 Jan
Extend the payroll tax reduction & extend unemp. Payments now! Make good choices for all americans! Tax the wealthy#SOtu
Lawyer, political hack, lobbyist hiding & pretending to be a NUN...
Sr. Simone Campbell @sr_simone 25 Jan
Off shore drilling isn’t a real answer. We need renewable energy. #SOTU
Sr. Simone Campbell @sr_simone 25 Jan
But what about the poor people & laborers in Columbia who are suffering from our trade agreement? #SOTU
Sr. Simone Campbell @sr_simone 25 Jan
Immigration reform right now! #sotu
Sr. Simone Campbell @sr_simone 25 Jan
Let us begin again to create a more perfect union...peace building not violence is the anchor of democracy...we need to be selfless #SOTU
NETWORK Lobby @NETWORKLobby 23 Jan
NETWORK is proud to be part of a coalition working to build on the momentum we helped create during the 2008 election: dld.bz/aG9wB
Retweeted by sr_simone
Sr. Simone Campbell @sr_simone 13 Jan
We must MIND THE GAP! Poverty is a crack in our democracy! This Week in Poverty: Kids, Jobs and GOP Myths | The Nation thenation.com/blog/165629/we…
Sr. Simone Campbell @sr_simone 20 Jun
Why don’t DC Republicans care that cutting federal spending will cause more unemployment? Or this is this what they want for 2012 election?
https://mobile.twitter.com/sr_simone?max_id=99130983965663232
THANK YOU! yes, we do know everything....and we have infinite patience!. We do not panic over a few dissidents who spring up out of nowhere to challenge us. This nonsense has been going on for a couple of thousand years...Luther was wrong and so is she.
I saw For Greater Glory last Sunday. I thought it was the best film of the last 30 years or more (excepting The Passion of the Christ which is obviously in a class of its own given the subject matter). I was so intent on reading the minutest details of the credits at the end that I was not paying adequate attention to the film footage behind the credits that apparently included an actual black and white grainy film of the martyrdom of Fr. Miguel Pro, S.J. I am going to make every attempt to see it again in the theater and to obtain the DVD.
Oh, me too BlackElk! Just a great movie! So much history and detail for so little time, with so many awesome brave peasant souls. And the women and children...just wonderful.
Don’t want to give the thing away here, but I too plan to see it again, and the movie will be inspire me for Lent.
I nearly broke my neck getting to opening night, I was so eager to see it. Hope no one I KNOW was on the road that evening, between us and that theater!
The Passion was a bit overwhelming for me, to be frank. I literally feel faint so I don’t use it at Lent, but so many still do and I am so proud of them.
I learned from that movie when to close my eyes in this movie!
Thanks, Elk.
Are there any left wing LDSers?
Just how would this nun know?
How much plastic surgery and lyposuction have these left wing nuts had?
Typical libs...cut one dollar from the budget and everyone is going to die.
How much longer do we have to put up with this BS crap? Those that buy these dumb, lying arguments should die and rot in hell.
Communist hags for Christ!
Hillarious!!
Provided she is a nun
So true
Thank you for your time, Sister Immaculata Dyke.
It is rare that the media makes a friendly-interviewed person look bad, but these people are so far off base, the MOR voters can see through them very quickly.
Most MSNBC voters would still vote for Obama even if we had an 8 x 10 glossy of him shooting Santa Claus on Christmas Eve, but that is becoming such a small segment of society, fewer and fewer still care about them.
Thank you for your time, Sister Immaculata Dyke.
It is rare that the media makes a friendly-interviewed person look bad, but these people are so far off base, the MOR voters can see through them very quickly.
Most MSNBC voters would still vote for Obama even if we had an 8 x 10 glossy of him shooting Santa Claus on Christmas Eve, but that is becoming such a small segment of society, fewer and fewer still care about them.
And if we work 2012 well, they become powerless.
1. Myth Romney;
2. The late George Romney;
3. The late Lenore Romney;
4. Morris Udall;
5. Stewart Udall;
6. Senator Tom Udall;
7. Senator Mark Udall;
8. The Late Senator Frank Church.
Just for starters. As a Catholic, I cannot speak for the religious quality of each of the foregoing Mormons but I would be quite surprised if ANY of them were pro-life and/or pro-family as is the Church of LDS. Thanks for asking.
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