Posted on 12/26/2012 8:10:10 PM PST by Tailgunner Joe
Regulation of firearms “is an imperative” in the aftermath of the massacre of 26 children and adults in Newtown, Conn., along with “robust care for those with mental illness,” according to a bluntly worded statement by America’s largest organization of Roman Catholic nuns.
“There is much to mourn, but mourning is not enough: The killing must stop, America is losing its future,” said the Leadership Conference of Women Religious. The LCWR asked that convents, monasteries, churches and town halls ring their bells 26 times at noon on Dec. 28, which in the church year is the Feast of the Holy Innocents.
“Gun regulation is an imperative,” added the sisters’ statement. “Automatic weapons created for the battlefield have no place in the hands of children or adults incapable of talking responsibility for their use. This societal rupture has been going on far too long and demands immediate action by our national leaders.
“This is not about protecting the 2nd Amendment, but rather protecting the most precious resource we have — the gift of life. This is also time to restore civility to our world and work to change the pervasive culture of violence found throughout this nation, and especially in the entertainment industry.”
The Leadership Conference has been willing to walk in harm’s way. The LCWR was accused by the Vatican earlier this year of promoting “radical feminist themes incompatible with the Catholic faith” and failing to teach and promote the church hierarchy’s positions opposing contraception, embryonic stem cell research, marriage equality and abortion.
The Vatican named a panel, headed by Seattle Archbishop J. Peter Sartain, to bring the sisters back in line. But the LCWR has denied what it calls “unsubstantiated” Vatican allegations, and defended its activism for social justice.
It has taken far more specific positions than the Catholic hierarchy in the wake of the Newtown massacre. The U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops has said through a spokesman that it supports “measures that control the sale and use of firearms.”
Archbishop Sartain, in a statement of sympathy for the Newtown victims, said: “It is at times such as these that we must rely on God, and resolve to become instruments of his peace in our own homes, workplaces and communities. In Christ alone is our hope for true peace, the peace that wipes away every tear and gives life to our darkest hours.”
The LCWR, by contrast, is urging nuns in its ranks to “stand up and speak out for the sacredness of the lives of these (Newtown) children and all people everywhere.” It is also urging action by temporal political leaders.
“We suggest letting your elected officials at every level of government know that you favor responsible gun legislation,” it said. “Encourage congressional leaders to support a federal ban on the sale, transfer, importation and possession of assault weapons and the munitions that go with them.
“Ask them to fund robust care for those with mental illness as well as take steps to address the growing use of violence as a means of entertainment. Call on your local and state officials to do the same.”
The Leadership Conference of Women Religious is an umbrella organization that represents about 57,000 Catholic sisters, or about 80 percent of the women religious in the United States.
Sorry ,dear!
The U.S. Constitution calls every American the right to keep and bear arms, with the understanding that they are for the protection of the American against any tyrannical government.
I, as an individual sovereign of one, do not see where the political ramblings of an offshore governmental entity, where the United States has an official Department of State embassy no less, has any bearing or sway at all, when balanced against the U.S. Constitution, and the Bill of Rights.
As I said, and as anyone prudent in making a post or a reply on a reputable site would do, i did a quick google search after a cut and paste of the name of this org. and added Vatican. Again, as stated, an entire page came up.
Like so:
Google
Leadership Conference of Women Religious Vatican
You know, like one would do wiht any other post that isn’t anti Catholic.
Additionally, there was a very well publicized year or so long review done by the Vatican within the women religious communities last summer (ending) as these kinds of newsy articles that NPR and the like were using to lure folks like you into pretending the Church was out to help change the US into a liberla society, workin ghand in hand with left wing media.
You all are being used.
It was getting thick.
Heresy.
A much underused word, and much needed here.
Nope, just Catholics. So rich a target.
They are nuns. They are a part of the body of the Catholic church. You may disagree with them but may not expel them from your congregation.
You can’t defend them and reject them at the same time.
There you go again. You defend them and you reject them. Your position is self contradictory.
I didn’t the Vatican commission did
There are hundreds of Vatican commissions. Some say sensible things. Some spout unbelievable communist nonsense.
Are you one of those cafeteria Catholics?
Seems to me you are being harder on them than any of the folks you are so resentful of.
Health insurance...mutual funds.
Nuclear power, coal, petroleum
The blood of the victims of the Sandy Hook massacre stains the Leadership Conference of Women Religious and all those who seek to criminalize self defense.
Sorry, I guess the sarcasm was lost without a conspicuous tag.
This is an interesting books, in a way it explains WHY there are so many Lesbian idiot nuns and homosexual men IN the churches...
This is another failure of thinking coming from the low information public. They refuse to recognize the undercurrent of illegal activity going on in their community which has the potential of erupting into anarchy if it had no restraints. Honest citizens with guns have that restraint.
It is too bad that many have their heads-in-the-sand and do not want to think about the reality of what happens when thugs try to survive in an dysfunctional economy. For them, the gun is their survival tool in a violent world. Our criminal population is heavily invested in the illegal drug industry and the gun insures their investments. They would come unleashed if we did not have guns in the hands of honest citizens who would be open prey to those who rob to acquire wealth. With Chicago’s ban on gun ownership for the honest citizen, you have gun violence unleashed with record homicides (500) this year. Gun control only gives the criminal the out of control ability to kill.
Most our head-in-the-sands population are oblivious to the amount of criminal activity that goes on in our communities. We have thugs with guns and they do not hesitate in killing people. Guns in the hands of honest citizens keep collateral violence from spinning out of control. The gun control nitwits do not want to make the connection between honest gun owners and criminals made less deadly through the fear of being killed.
The LCWR group does not speak out against abortion. They speak out in favor of abortion. Their average age is 75 or so. I know because I work with members of an order that has members of LCWR. They were possibly good nuns when they were consecrated 50-plus years ago, but then the 1960s happened to their brains.
Over the past several years, the Vatican has begun the long process of squeezing them out. It's barely necessary, since the members of this faction are dying off, and there have been no vocations to the orders they represent in nearly half a century. By the way, these nuns don't wear habits—they wear polyester pants-suits instead.
The orders of nuns that actually wear habits are mostly new orders. They tend to be young, pro-life, pro-military, and pro-gun. I know a great many of them. Over the past two decades, their orders have been growing like wildfire.
It'd be like calling the Westboro Baptist bunch 'evangelicals'.
The Leadership Conference of Women Religious is a Communist front operation. We know Communist operatives have infiltrated the Catholic Church and it is through the LCWR that they are doing it. The Vatican also said the nuns had embraced “radical feminist themes incompatible with the Catholic faith.” The Vatican is not happy with the LCWR’S focus on social justice and not promoting the “Biblical view of life and human sexuality.”
The Vatican has sent Archbishop Peter Sartain of Seattle to head a group of Catholic bishops to reign in the LCWR. So for, the dialog has been progressing but the LCWR remains resistant to the Vatican. I see the LCWR working to undermine the teachings of the Catholic Church and ultimately to destroy the Catholic Church in America.
Let's make sure we have our facts correct when we argue our position.
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