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 ...
“love cannot be silienced,” whatever the Hell that means.
it means abortion! you know; show your love of your unborn child by killing it so that it will not inconvience you. I/m sure this is what Christ meant for us to do. (sarc)
But not much.
[sung]
"I've seen the Church from both sides now..."
"And I really don't know God. At Alllllllll."
She and anyone who publically advocates the murder of the unborn should be immediately excommunicated. The church would gain a lot of respect for taking a stand.
>>And it don’t matterifyouputacoupleofextrasyllablesinto a line...
LOL... Folk Song Army ping. :)
It must have worked. I left RVN in Nov 68, and I haven’t had to go back since then.
From the Poet John Donne, in his "Lecture upon a shadow," we have: "Love is a full and ever constant light, and the first moment after noon is night."
Who was it that said "Love one anther"?
This article showcases much of what is wrong with journalism.
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It also throws in this ‘fact’ that “the Vatican issued a harsh assessment of the group representing a majority of U.S. nuns”
Really? What is his basis for this ‘fact?’
The only possible way that this could be true is if the majority of nuns in America are all over 65 and/or have stayed in the orders for strange political reasons.
"I've seen the Church from both sides now..."
"And I really don't know God. At Alllllllll."
ROTFL!
The answer, my friend
Is breaking like the wind.
Gee, if I wrote and published a song telling MY employer they were full of shiite, I wonder what would happen to me?
And how do the nuns determine the difference between “love” and “lust” or “perversion”? Because there are differences. Plenty of women have women friends they love dearly, but would never want to have sex with, or leave their families for.
I’ve always said most of liberal priests and nuns in the Church today are products of the hippie sector of the 60’s.
The spirit of Vatican II spawned a new generation of anabaptists, like those who were so nutty that bother Lutherans and Catholics regarding them as anathema.
Are these people funded and paid by the Catholic Church? Why should the RCC be taken seriously unless they start cutting out the chaff from the wheat?
“They sang Peter, Paul and Mary and Joan Baez, and some friends said her voice reminded them of Judy Collins.”
Having all 5 of those names in one sentence warranta a barf alert.
They gotta lotta nice girls ah. Have mercy!
Once, nuns lived in poverty, and taught or nursed or did something practical. Now they lobby, criticize bishops, and dance in chiffon at mass in imitation of "pricilla queen of the desert"...
was that before or after Donne stopped writing his dirty poems and found Jesus?
I was joking about Donne, of course.
As for “love one another”, well, lots of folks say that. But I notice she is living in a nice apartment in New York city, (and who pays the bills), not working with street kids in Manila.
Or as one sarcastic carpenter said: Not everyone who says to Me, ‘Love Love” will enter the kingdom of heaven, but he who does the will of My Father who is in heaven.
Yes, I know: he said Lord Lord, but the idea is the same thing: ME ME ME....
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