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A Vatican investigation into the state of women’s religious communities in the United States appeared to start innocently enough. Rome this year called for an “apostolic visitation,” to see how it could correct a potentially dire situation for the country’s 59,000 nuns and the orders they belong to.In the United States, the number of nuns has dropped dramatically, and those who remain are largely seniors. But no sooner was the investigation announced than the accusations began to fly that the Vatican had an ulterior motive: it was using the apostolic visitation to bring to heel those nuns who had...

This issue, as discussed in the media and in cyberspace, is another example of a Tower of Babel - like the ID discussion. People are talking in different languages, and are often not honest about it. Here's the bottom line for me, and why I wrote, weeks ago, that the "who you are" question in regard to vocation discernment and this issue is secondary to "what you believe and what you will vigorously and enthusiastically teach." Already, the discussion has taken a sharp turn into Self-Pity and Oppression land. The self-identified "gay priests" have been trotted out, the sensitive have...