Nuns Issue Statement Defending Billionaire Contraceptive Campaigner Melinda Gates

LifeSite News ^ | 5/10/12 | Matthew Cullinan Hoffman

[Tax-chick]

Yes, George Stephanopolis is one of yours. Olympia Dukakis, too? But it’s true one rarely reads about lunatic Orthodox monastics. Perhaps it’s because there are so few in the English-speaking world that they’re just not on the MSM’s radar.

[The_Reader_David]

Actually, I think it’s because our monastics tend to fall off the royal road on the right side when they go bad, and become fanatical monarchists, or rigorists who want to apply the canonical penances from The Rudder strictly, or Old Calendarists (meaning not just using the Old Calendar, but holding that any who use the New Calendar are devoid of grace), rather than going modern and secular.

[Tax-chick]

I see your point - there’s no real payoff in that for those who are opposed to Christianity to start with.

[guitarplayer1953]

If the Gates believe in population control why did they have children? To me the pop control freaks want everyone but themselves to not have children.

[mojito]

Here's a link to the story:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/local/gaithersburg-priest-defends-decision-to-deny-lesbian-communion/2012/03/14/gIQAJ5NwCS_story.html

It seems this story has been going on for some time, but the blog post I saw yesterday was the first I had heard of it.

[Mrs. Don-o]

They've been undisciplined for so long --- decades --- that now they're genuinely shocked if somebody (like Abp Sartain) suggests that "Your opinion, Sister, does not constitute Catholic doctrine."

Lack of teaching "the teaching" breeds contempt for the teaching.

Lack of enforcement of the law breeds contempt for the law.