They sang Peter, Paul and Mary and Joan Baez ...
Posted on 12/03/2012 8:05:48 AM PST by marshmallow
When Kathy Sherman was in college during the final years of the Vietnam War, she played the guitar with friends in her dorm room and sang folk and protest songs over bowls of popcorn. They sang Peter, Paul and Mary and Joan Baez, and some friends said her voice reminded them of Judy Collins.
Sister Kathy graduated and joined an order of Roman Catholic nuns, the Sisters of St. Joseph of La Grange, but she never stopped making music. Last spring, when the Vatican issued a harsh assessment of the group representing a majority of U.S. nuns accusing them of "serious doctrinal problems," Sister Kathy, 60, said she responded the way she always does when she feels something deeply. She wrote a song.
The words popped into her head two days after the Vatican's condemnation, as she was walking down the hallway in her order's ministry center, feeling hurt and angry: "Love cannot be silenced," she thought. "It never has. It never will." She went into the center's dining room and tried out the lyrics on some of her sisters. They liked the message.
"Love Cannot be Silenced" became an anthem, not just for the nuns but also for laypeople who turned out for vigils in front of churches and cathedrals across the country this year to support them. In a voice sweet and resolute, Sister Kathy sang, "We are faithful, loving and wise, dancing along side by side, with a Gospel vision to lead us and Holy Fire in our eyes" -- a lyric that evokes the nuns' novel forging of spirit with steel.
"I see it more as a song of affirmation than a protest song," Sister Kathy, her gray-green eyes sparkling, said in....
(Excerpt) Read more at post-gazette.com ...
Oy vey! She needs to read up on what happened to “The Singing Nun” when she went off the rails...
“A Gospel vision dancing before our eyes”? Vision of what? Aborted babies? State subsidized birth control?
I realize that it’s self-evident but this still cries out for a BARF alert.
Another has been hippy that ‘took the cloth’ for dishonest reasons.
May the Holy Spirit enlighten “Sister” Kathy as to the true definitions of LOVE and HOLINESS.
... and we'll kill anyone who thinks otherwise."
ALL female folk singers sound like Judy Collins.
Seen & heard enough Vatican II hippie nuns in my 64 years.
I’ll take Sister Mary Charlotte (real grade school principal) & her paddle (she didn’t need no ruler) any day over these clownettes.
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The Vietnam War protests? Joan Baez? That was 50 years ago — 50 years ago — yet Libs like this reporter and this nun are still acting as if that is what inspires today’s protest movement. Ironically, its incredibly reactionary. I am so tired of reading these articles that we should take inspiration from 60s events and people.
“We are the Folk Song Army everyone of us cares. We all hate poverty, war, and injustice unlike the rest of you squares.” - Tom Lehrer
"R-E-S-P-E-C-T Find out what it means to me R-E-S-P-E-C-T Take care ... TCB Sock it to me, sock it to me, sock it to me, Sock it to me, sock it to me, sock it to me sock it to me, sock it to me, sock it to me"
What dreck (both the song and the journalism). Anyone who has to tell you she's wise, ain't.
“Oh, the tune don’t have to be clever,
“And it don’t matterifyouputacoupleofextrasyllablesinto a line,
“It sounds more ethnic if it ain’t good English, and it don’t even gotta rhyme (excuse me, rhyne.....)”
;^)
Sister Kathy graduated and joined an order of Roman Catholic nuns, the Sisters of St. Joseph of La Grange, but she never stopped making music. Last spring, when the Vatican issued a harsh assessment of the group representing a majority of U.S. nuns accusing them of "serious doctrinal problems," Sister Kathy, 60, said she responded the way she always does when she feels something deeply. She wrote a song.
Other friends said her voice reminded them of Pat Paulsen.
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