Posted on 12/26/2012 8:10:10 PM PST by Tailgunner Joe
Regulation of firearms “is an imperative” in the aftermath of the massacre of 26 children and adults in Newtown, Conn., along with “robust care for those with mental illness,” according to a bluntly worded statement by America’s largest organization of Roman Catholic nuns.
“There is much to mourn, but mourning is not enough: The killing must stop, America is losing its future,” said the Leadership Conference of Women Religious. The LCWR asked that convents, monasteries, churches and town halls ring their bells 26 times at noon on Dec. 28, which in the church year is the Feast of the Holy Innocents.
“Gun regulation is an imperative,” added the sisters’ statement. “Automatic weapons created for the battlefield have no place in the hands of children or adults incapable of talking responsibility for their use. This societal rupture has been going on far too long and demands immediate action by our national leaders.
“This is not about protecting the 2nd Amendment, but rather protecting the most precious resource we have — the gift of life. This is also time to restore civility to our world and work to change the pervasive culture of violence found throughout this nation, and especially in the entertainment industry.”
The Leadership Conference has been willing to walk in harm’s way. The LCWR was accused by the Vatican earlier this year of promoting “radical feminist themes incompatible with the Catholic faith” and failing to teach and promote the church hierarchy’s positions opposing contraception, embryonic stem cell research, marriage equality and abortion.
The Vatican named a panel, headed by Seattle Archbishop J. Peter Sartain, to bring the sisters back in line. But the LCWR has denied what it calls “unsubstantiated” Vatican allegations, and defended its activism for social justice.
It has taken far more specific positions than the Catholic hierarchy in the wake of the Newtown massacre. The U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops has said through a spokesman that it supports “measures that control the sale and use of firearms.”
Archbishop Sartain, in a statement of sympathy for the Newtown victims, said: “It is at times such as these that we must rely on God, and resolve to become instruments of his peace in our own homes, workplaces and communities. In Christ alone is our hope for true peace, the peace that wipes away every tear and gives life to our darkest hours.”
The LCWR, by contrast, is urging nuns in its ranks to “stand up and speak out for the sacredness of the lives of these (Newtown) children and all people everywhere.” It is also urging action by temporal political leaders.
“We suggest letting your elected officials at every level of government know that you favor responsible gun legislation,” it said. “Encourage congressional leaders to support a federal ban on the sale, transfer, importation and possession of assault weapons and the munitions that go with them.
“Ask them to fund robust care for those with mental illness as well as take steps to address the growing use of violence as a means of entertainment. Call on your local and state officials to do the same.”
The Leadership Conference of Women Religious is an umbrella organization that represents about 57,000 Catholic sisters, or about 80 percent of the women religious in the United States.
Right. Nuns aren’t Catholic.
They are not GOOD sisters.
THere is an entire page of articles on a google search.
You good people at FR are falling into the trap of this publication who hate the Church but are so eager to quote someone who says they represent the church.
They do not represent the Church.
Geeze what disappoointment.
Do a little research and assume that when the MSM “quotes” the Church that they is usury going on.
The Pope had words to say regarding thes massacre and there was nothing to be said about the government of the US nor its laws and its Constitution.
Just do basic research or say nothing at all perhaps.
Nuns are Catholic.
These nuns who are radical feminists and who stick their noses into US govt business call themselves Catholic but hve been, and recently so, condemned and negated (disoned) by the Catholic Church.
Anyone can call themselves Catholic - doesn’t always mean they are so.
Clue: The Vatican says they’re not.
Clue 2: the mainstream media gives them a voice.
there’s no humor like freeper humor!
Listen, these Catholics are idiots. Not all Catholics are idiots but these are. And to ridicule them and bash them is not the same as bashing all Catholics.
It is not anti-Catholic to bash an idiot Catholic.
You need to check out the Possenti Society. St. Gabriel Possenti is the patron saint of gunowners: http://www.possentisociety.com/what.asp
You need to check out the Possenti Society. St. Gabriel Possenti is the patron saint of gunowners: http://www.possentisociety.com/what.asp
sigh.
The anti Catholicism on this site is disappointing.
Pile on, but it is mob like.
These nuns hve been denounced by the Vatican and embraced by NPR.
Hatred is not attractive
So you are telling me these are phony nuns or nuns who have been kicked out. Any way to prove that?
If an adult is incapable of taking responsibility for there use I have a much larger list.
I’m willing to accept they’ve been excommunicated, just show me.
>The killing must stop, America is losing its future,” said the Leadership Conference of Women Religious.<
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Hey Sisters, America has lost its future — not because of guns but because who is in the WH.
Why haven't they been given an ultimatum and excommunicated for noncompliance?
Let me give this a try:
These nuns call themselves Catholic. NPR wants to hear from them and five them a voice as Catholics. Red flag?
The Catholic Church has a solid set of rules and regs which have not changed in 2000 or so years.
Sticking their noses into governmental business is not what the Church allows.
People who call themselves Catholic so things that are outside the teachings of the Church, but all Catholics who practice and know their faithare about the business of the church.
These women are not Catholic. they espouse radical feminism which is against the teaching of the Church completely and has been welll studied and documented.
the idiots about whom you speak are not following the teachings of the Church.
this is a mob scene, this thread. Pile on, but every one of the bashing and sex jokes are indicative of ignorant hate and uninformed bigotry utilizing the left wing media as a partner in its hatred.
So they are probably nuns and you are talking through you hat.
These women are also heretics. Inherent to the Catholic views on a right to life, is a right to self defense.
Let’s gang up on the Mormons instead, shall we? Jehovah’s Witnesses? The 7th Day Adventists are a safe target I hear.
arguably, there is no other product more regulated than guns.
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