American Nuns Hope For Sister-Friendly New Pope

The Daily Beast ^ | February 13, 2012 | Barbie Latza Nadeau

[GeronL]

What they need are Nuns who are actually Catholic

[Da Coyote]

We want to be nuns, but we want to be nuns our way.

Right now, the church has big problems of which we are all aware.

Placating American nuns does not appear to be at the top of the list.

[NYer]

“I’d like someone attuned to the voices of young people, especially young women who are leaving the church in the U.S. in large numbers because they don’t feel valued.”

Translation: "I'd like someone who will support the feminist sisters whose ranks are dropping precipitously". Meanwhile, on the other side of the coin, young women are being drawn to a prayerful life.

Dominican Sisters of Mary, Mother of the Eucharist

[Sacajaweau]

My aunt was a nun....and a pure communist.

[Biggirl]

Welcome to the “silly season” of chosen a new Pope.

[NYer]

What they need are Nuns who are actually Catholic

We've got them and their ranks are growing in leaps and bounds. See post #4. Do you recall the reporter last year who left her position to join a cloistered order?

[Sacajaweau]

My granddaughter, then eight years old, told my aunt the nun (right to her face) that she thought the nuns should go back to wearing a habit of some kind. I agreed with her.

[Berlin_Freeper]

Identify the top trouble makers and trickle them out.

[Venturer]

The Second Vatican Council signed the death warrant for American Nuns.

Before that Nuns were special and treated as such.

Dropping the habits lost them their respect.

Some may not agree,but I believe the way nuns are treated today bears me out.When they wore habits and spoke I listened, now thay are just another lay person to me.

[mmichaels1970]

Of all the scandals that have been pinned to Benedict XVI’s papacy, perhaps none has been more divisive than the so-called clampdown on American nuns last April.

LMAO! Nadeau must be a complete and utter moron.

I have been to church every week and have attended in several locations. I have not yet witnessed any mass-defections or precipitous drops in mass attendance of Catholics, outraged at this scandal of supposedly epic proportions.

The only other thing I have to say is that we must be careful not to paint all nuns with the same broad brush.

[Opinionated Blowhard]

Exactly. What you have in America are a bunch of lesbians and activists in habits. They are more interested in advocating for Obamacare and protesting war than anything religious. I bet a substantial minority could care less about Christianity.

[Biggirl]

..........With politticking certain cardinals who are “papal material”.

[Biggirl]

.....Wow, out of the “mouths of babies”, comes WISDOM that only GOD can send.

[Buckeye McFrog]

My aunt was a nun....and a pure communist.

I too had aunts who were nuns. While not Communists, they were charitably described by other family members as being "a little loopy". In reality it was a bit worse than that (so much so that my mother was forced to conclude that a lifetime of celibacy has severe detrimental effects upon the average female brain)

[Sacajaweau]

We’ve been shutting down churches left and right. The old magnificent nun’s convent is now an old aged home for nuns. There are no new ones to fill the void. They’re dying out and they did it to themselves.

[Vigilanteman]

. . . Leadership Conference of Women Religious (LCWR), an umbrella group with more than 1,500 members representing 80 percent of American nuns.

I smell B.S. This means that there are roughly 1900 nuns in the entire U.S.A. Roughly 25 of those 1900 would be conservative nuns in the Greensburg, PA diocese. I know this because I was an assigned poll watcher in the precinct where their convent was located and had them on my strike list as friendly voters. They all showed up to vote, by the way, in three groups.

The Greensburg diocese covers Westmoreland County with a total population of roughly 380,000, or about 0.12% of the U.S. total. Granted, we have a concentration of Catholics of roughly 2.5 times the national total, so lets say we have 0.3% of the nuns in the single precinct.

Multiply that by the 1900 total said to be in the whole United States and this means we should have a maximum of 6 rather than 25. Further, since our nuns are clearly conservative and not part of this libtard umbrella group, it should be closer to 20% of the 6.

[Vigilanteman]

See my post #17. FWIW, the nuns in the precinct where I was assigned to watch all wore habits.

[Sacajaweau]

http://www.lib.rochester.edu/index.cfm?page=4833

To make things worse...This was one of our High School Chaplains

[Sacajaweau]

http://www.lib.rochester.edu/index.cfm?page=4833