Inflammatory title belies fair presentation on problems of U.S. Catholic nuns

Catholic News Service ^ | 8/25/2006 | Sister Mona Castelazo, CSJ

[HarleyD]

It is government assistance and when I go on it, it will still be government assistance. However no one can live on Social Security.

I find it unconscionable for any organization for which you have given so much of your life to, to simply kick you out the door. I can understand this happening with United Airlines more than I can understand it happening with people who serve the Church/church. I also find it offensive to read bishops saying things like, "Well, they knew they were taking a vow of poverty so they're getting what they deserve." I wonder what the nuns think when they have to figure out how they're going to pay for needed medication. The bishops might just as well as have said, "Go off and die and leave us alone." That's what they meant.

Before we spend money on missionary outreach, perhaps we should look at spending our money on those who have served.

[Alex Murphy]

I've noticed you spend far more time posting articles about the Catholic faith lately than you do the Protestant faith. Don't you think it's about time you drop the pretense and come on over to our side? You know you love us!

Me, swim the Tiber? Not gonna happen, but I appreciate the kind gesture (and the attention). If it makes you feel any better, the Greek Orthodox tried to woo me to their side some time ago, and I turned them down too. And they even had the power of Greek cooking on their side!

[dangus]

No-one kicked anyone out the door!

[HarleyD]

If the Church/churches cannot support the people who serve them in their old age, then they should rethink what they are about. It's like politicians who would prefer to build new roads rather than fill potholes. It looks good to their constituents. The Church/churches are eager to build beautiful churches in Florida but the don't focus on the needs of those who have served them.

Perhaps if the Church would be a little more proactive in stopping pedophiles priests, they could use the money from costly lawsuits of corrupt priest to take care of the faithful nuns who deserve to be taken care of in their old age.

I just talked to a missionary yesterday who might have to leave the ministry because his family don't have health insurance. That is a sad state of affair in my mind.

[dangus]

Hello? No-one kicked anyone out the door.

Also, don't lump entities together: A religious order is a seperate entity from a diocese. If a religious order drove away members by being apostate, and not standing up for the truth, that IS that religious order's own fault. Or are you believing the bullsh** in this article that the Vatican is to blame by not being liberal enough?

So, yes, because of their own UNFAITHFULNESS, many religious orders are pressed for cash. Yet still, no-one has kicked anyone out any doors. Nor does that mean the religious orders are doing anything unseemly in collecting the money that is rightfully and legally due them from the government.

It amazes me how many FReepers will believe any thing a liberal says, so long as the liberal hates the Catholic Church.