[marshmallow]

Community life and obedience are part of the deal for religious life. The Vatican would be perfectly within its rights to "drag" nuns back to their convents. Religious life is voluntary and nobody is obligated to sign up for it so Dowd's "Nazi" references are entirely inappropriate.

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.

[wombtotomb]

Preach it sister! A-MEN!!!

[Tax-chick]

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?

[DManA]

Dowd apparently is a practicing Catholic. I wonder if it might be time for her priest to have a long talk with the girl.

[Oratam]

As a secular materialist, MoDo is unable to understand the life of a religious is one of service, sacrifice and obedience. To her, it's just another career choice, albeit a tough one, sort of a hyper-social worker that she wouldn't take on herself.

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.