Posted on 10/26/2009 6:45:14 AM PDT by marshmallow
Columnist Maureen Dowd, in Sundays New York Times, has weighed in on the Vatican investigation now taking place into the state of American nuns.
The investigation, officially called an apostolic visitation, has been met with a fair bit of skepticism because there is a strong sense, among many sisters, that this is an attempt to put American nuns back where they belong: behind convent walls and dressed in the traditional habit.
Since Vatican II, many nuns have opted for less structured lives, taking on a range of secular jobs and living on their own instead of in a community. All the while, of course, staying true to their vows.
Those in charge of the investigation, which began earlier this year, have been vague in what they expect to find and what they may recommend when they wrap up in 2011. Personally, I dont find this alarming. The Vatican has every right to keep what they are doing quiet while they complete their work. Nor does the fact that they are not sharing every shred of their investigation with the media a sign of a dark conspiracy. So Dan Brown fans take a pill and chill out.
Ms. Dowd notes that American nuns are quickly aging and then adds that the investigation she calls it an inquisition hopes to herd them back into their old-fashioned habits and convents and curb any speck of modernity or independence.
If that was the entire point then Ms. Dowd could be forgiven her mocking tone. The idea of Vatican thugs dragging nuns out of their private apartments, forcing them into habits, and then locking them inside cloistered walls would be pretty horrific. In actual fact, the idea is somewhat ridiculous.
What the Vatican is worried about, as it should be, is that...........
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Furthermore, if independence, living in private apartments and working secular jobs is the preferred lifestyle for these women, then religious life is the wrong vocation.
These crazy nuns are the real "Nazis" with their feminist, secular agenda which they thrust in the face of the Church whose acceptance they demand.
Preach it sister! A-MEN!!!
No mention of the “nuns” working as abortion clinic escorts and publicly teaching heresy. (Not that the article isn’t accurate as far as it goes.)
The deranged exaggeration and paranoia of MoDo and the leftist “religious” she champions are just so exhausting. The Apostolic Visitors (and the Pope, bless his heart) have my deepest sympathy. If I had to deal with those people, I’d probably drink myself to death or drive into a telephone pole.
Btw, doesn’t mentioning Maureen Dowd require Catherine Zeta-Jones pictures?
Dowd apparently is a practicing Catholic. I wonder if it might be time for her priest to have a long talk with the girl.
I say excommunicate her!
Maureen suffers from Dowd Syndrome.....
Tell her women religious are "the mystical brides of Christ" you'd be met with a look of incredulity no different than if you told her you'd just returned from a trip aboard a flying saucer piloted by little green men.
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