Amy Keane, a pro-life witness for 11 years, says Quinn has acted as escort for "six years, at least." Keane described one incident in which Quinn began shouting at the pro-lifers as they spoke to a woman about to enter the abortion facility. Posted on 10/23/2009 12:05:38 PM PDT by NYer
LifeSiteNews.com) - A Dominican nun has been seen frequenting an abortion facility in Illinois recently - but not, as one might expect, to pray for an end to abortion or to counsel women seeking abortions, but to volunteer as a clinic escort.
Local pro-life activists say that they recognized the escort at the ACU Health Center as Sr. Donna Quinn, a nun outspokenly in favor of legalized abortion, after seeing her photo in a Chicago Tribune article.
"I've called her sister several times, and she never responded," local pro-lifer John Bray told LifeSiteNews.com (LSN). "But it's her."
Amy Keane, a pro-life witness for 11 years, says Quinn has acted as escort for "six years, at least." Keane described one incident in which Quinn began shouting at the pro-lifers as they spoke to a woman about to enter the abortion facility.
"[Quinn] was so angry, and burst out very loudly so everyone could hear: 'Look at these men, telling these women what to do with their bodies!'" said Keane. "She was so angry, that it really took all of us aback." Keane says that the group was peaceful, and that the men present were not among those engaging the woman.
"For those of us who are Catholic, to have a member of a religious order so blatantly - it is so disheartening. It really is," said Keane. "She's participating actively in abortion. That is what is so disturbing for us."
Sr. Donna Quinn, OP, is renowned in the Chicago area as an advocate for legalized abortion and other liberal issues.
In 1974 she co-founded the organization Chicago Catholic Women, which lobbied the USCCB on a feminist platform before it dissolved in 2000. She is now a coordinator of the radically liberal National Coalition of American Nuns (NCAN), which stands in opposition against the Catholic Church's position on abortion, homosexuality, contraception, and the male priesthood.
While LifeSiteNews.com (LSN) was unable to reach Sr. Quinn for comment, NCAN's Sr. Beth Rindler confirmed to LSN that Quinn is still a member of their group, which favors unrestricted legalized abortion and disagrees with the teaching that abortion is intrinsically evil. "We respect women, and believe that they make moral decision, and so we respect their decisions," Rindler explained.
In a 2002 address to the Women's Studies in Religion Program at Harvard Divinity School, Sr. Quinn described how she came to view the teachings of her Church as "immoral": "I used to say: 'This is my Church, and I will work to change it, because I love it,'" she said. "Then later I said, 'This church is immoral, and if I am to identify with it I'd better work to change it.' More recently, I am saying, 'All organized religions are immoral in their gender discriminations.'"
Quinn called gender discrimination "the root cause of evil in the Church, and thus in the world," and said she remained in the Dominican community simply for "the sisterhood."
Sr. Patricia Mulcahey, OP, Quinn's Prioress at the Sinsinawa Dominican community, said in an email response to LSN that the nun sees her volunteer activity as "accompanying women who are verbally abused by protestors. Her stance is that if the protestors were not abusive, she would not be there."
Though Sr. Mulcahey claimed that her sisters "support the teachings of the Catholic Church," she declined to comment on Quinn's public protest of Catholic Church teaching.
Joe Scheidler of the Pro-Life Action League says Quinn came in contact with his own office in 1982, when she and a group of other pro-aborts picketed his building on the anniversary of Roe v. Wade.
"She figures it's part of her religion to take these women in and protect them, and get them abortions," said Scheidler of Quinn's recent activity. "Something dreadful has happened to make a Catholic nun become an escort at an abortion clinic - that's the lowest form you can reach, where you escort a woman with a living child in her into a place to have the child killed, and to ruin that woman's soul."
"If I didn't even believe in the humanity of the child - which of course would be crazy - even if I didn't, I would fight abortion for the sake of the women," Scheidler added. "They miss that baby, and they can't get it back. They never can."
And some nuns wonder why the Vatican is investigating them?!
Huh? Why is she still a ‘sister’?
I’m guessing there is a fairly good chance that she’s a lesbian.
Three hots and a cot and free medical.
I would not want to be at her particular judgement.
+ 1
I[m so glad they’re being checked out. It’s time for some lines to be drawn.
She should see if she can’t get a teaching position at Notre Dame. At the very least, she could get a position at Catholic Hospitals or the USCCB.
Wha'?
"Hmmmmm . . . . nope. Don't see her name here anywhere."
She isnt a nun. She is a Baby killing demon posing as one.
The shame is that her order does not take action to expell her.
Another shame is that she doesnt have the integrity to remove herslef from the order, but she is doing the devil’s work in trying to destroy the order from within.She is actively working against Catholic teaching.
How come she hasn’t been excommunicated?
As other women who have had abortions have to compell others to do the same to reenforce that their decision was right I would guess that the same thing is going on here and her becoming a nun may have had everything to do with this as we’ve seen in others who profess to be Catholic while doing the work of Satan.
I am cheered by how old she is. The passing of the leftist psuedo nuns will occur as nature ordered. And it seems sooner more than later.
She has excommunicated herself by participating in procuring abortions. She calls herself a Catholic and a nun!!! She is neither. She is a murderess
Excommunicate her, pronto.
rotflolpmp
How do you say, "Sic 'em, boys!" in Latin?
Two grandmotherly types draped in abortion clinic regalia.
Don't they have a sewing bee or something to attend?
This is as bad as it gets.
I thought I read it wrong, sadly I didn't. They adamantly, stubbornly persist in their errors as some sort of enlightened thought.
She's going to be a bit surprised.
We still have our work cut out for us. In places where nuns like this (Joan Chittester in my area), whether well meaning (and wrong) or intentionally trying to impose their idea of 'change', these nuns are active and they have many staunch followers and students who are now themselves the educators and speakers and curriculum selectors. And they are working to leave a legacy of followers who adhere to their ideal. It will be some more work and time. Our Pope is 'on to' them and letting them know it, and that's an excellent start.
Diocese of Erie?
She has excommunicated herself. It is not necessary to issue a formal excommunication.
It would be helpful to issue a notice, due to the scandal involved.
I’m not saying she should be burned at the stake, but this is a case that makes me wish there was still and inquisition.
And what a beautiful classic frescoe (IIRC) of renaissance Florence too.
St. Dominic would be rolling over in his grave...if he weren’t already before the Beatific Vision in Heaven!
Oh yes. I realize some are more left leaning, but we are more rural. It’s surprising just to see the ground covered in the last 15 years.
Ding! Ding! Ding! We have a winner!
I was fortunate enough to see it firsthand several times in 2001. Beautiful! And how fortunate were those friars to wake every morning with such beautiful art in their cells!
I was briefly in Florence again in 2007. I could live there for years without too many qualms. (Hey, they even have American peanut butter there!)
http://www.museumsinflorence.com/musei/santa_maria_novella-cloist.html
I was last in Florence in 1968, not long after the big flood. They had done a magnificent job cleaning everything up. Beautiful, beautiful city. London’s still my favorite though.
Diocese of Joliet, I believe.
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This name just seems more appropriate.
Canon Law and Church Teaching
Canon 1398: “A person who procures a completed abortion incurs a latae sententiae excommunication.”
Canon 1364 §1: “an apostate from the faith, a heretic, or a schismatic incurs a latae sententiae excommunication.”
The phrase “latae sententiae” means a judgment or sentence which has already been brought, in other words, a sentence or judgment which does not need a future additional judgment from someone in authority; it refers to a type of excommunication which is automatic. Such a sentence of excommunication is incurred “by the very commission of the offense,” (CCC 2272) and does not require the future particular judgment of a case by competent authority.
AMEN!! The Vatican KNOWS that some of these LESBIAN NUNS are EVIL!!
People such as she aren’t “nuns”, they’re “nones”.
Another homosexual leftist infiltrator of the Church, working to bring it down from within.
All of Tuscany is beautiful, right out of the old landscape paintings. At one time I thought about retiring there, but it is too expensive. Also seeing the lack of Italian children would be depressing.
you beat me to it...
Like all of you, I absolutely adore the city of Florence!! At one time, I considered retiring there but .... that's not going to happen. My last visit was in 1985, as part of a personal (and successful!) pilgrimage to Assisi. The memories of Florence, its sights, sounds and smells, remain as fresh today. You all know the expression "See Naples and die"; it should be changed to Florence.
Perhaps we could start a Tuscan branch of Free Republic?
Give it a try.
And when she dies, her bloody hands will get washed ... Where?
And most men - especially those who are “religiously” fervent about enforcing their views on abortion on the nation (and the world at large) are likewise trying to convince themselves that the abortion they (paid for, encouraged, didn't want to know about, caused, forced, enabled, forced upon a woman/women they didn't know) sponsored as a contributing being was the “right” thing to do to kill their sexual acts.
She is attempting to redefine original sin.
Things may be getting better since Florence is having something of a baby boom:
http://www.theflorentine.net/articles/article-view.asp?issuetocId=4566
At the very least we could have a Tuscany Ping here at FreeRepublic!
Here are some of today’s headlines from Florence: http://www.theflorentine.net/index.asp
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