Posted on 03/07/2017 7:31:16 PM PST by marshmallow
VATICAN CITY (RNS) Catholic activist Sister Simone Campbell has suggested that senior clergy at the Vatican are more preoccupied with power than confronting issues that affect the faithful, like clerical sexual abuse.
The U.S. nun, leader of the “Nuns on the Bus” campaign that has toured America during recent election cycles, spoke frankly in an interview ahead of a conference being held at the Vatican on Wednesday (March 8) to celebrate women’s contributions to peace.
“The institution and the structure is frightened of change,” Campbell told Religion News Service. “These men worry more about the form and the institution than about real people.”
Referring to Marie Collins, who last week resigned from the panel appointed by Pope Francis to look into allegations of past Vatican obstruction of child sex abuse investigations, Campbell said: “Blocked by men. Isn’t this the real problem within the church?”
“The effort to keep the church from stopping this sort of thing is shocking,” she added. “It is about male power and male image, not people’s stories. The real trouble is they have defined their power as spiritual leadership and they don’t have a clue about spiritual life.”
Campbell said she was shocked, and also moved, to have been included on the guest list for the Vatican conference.
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Nag, nag, nag.
What. That’s worse than the truth that she’s saying.
We’re worried about female clergy but moving priests around like frequent fliers to molest somewhere else is no big deal.
She makes a point.
And a damn good one.
Nice pussy hat, “Sister.”
“celebrate women’s contributions to peace.”
Another useful idiot.
Nuns on the Bus is pro-abortion.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuns_on_the_Bus
Nuns on the Bus is a Catholic pressure group in the United States.[1] Their name comes from the fact that they tour the country on a bus.[1]
Led by Sister Simone Campbell, they place emphasis on the church’s long-standing commitment to social justice.[1] In different years, the nuns have tackled different themes. In 2012, the nuns aimed to draw attention to nuns’ work with the poor and to protest planned aid cuts. In 2013, the theme was immigration reform. The nuns’ journeys are sponsored by NETWORK.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Network_(lobby_group)
In January 2001, President Bill Clinton presented the Presidential Citizens Medal, the US’s second highest civilian honor, to a Network founder and first Executive Director, Sister Carol Coston. She was the first Catholic Sister ever to receive this award.
She wouldn’t be here today if it weren’t for an evil male.../s
Hillary Clinton took us to war against Libya.
FUDNC-CINOs
Lesbo?
Genesis 3:16
To the woman he said, “I will surely multiply your pain in childbearing; in pain you shall bring forth children. Your desire shall be contrary to your husband, but he shall rule over you.”
— English Standard Version
I’ll wait for their comments after their ‘bus tour’ in Afghanistan.
That’s not her point, though.
It’s Miss Simone Campbell. Anti-Catholic harpies are not Sisters.
With that, I am always totally skeptical about budget plans that guarantee to balance the budget in X number of years. Such won't survive the current session of Congress. Congress keeps right on passing "supplemental" appropriations and such. That and one Congress cannot bind future congresses.
I have yet to hear anyone say the rape of minors by priests, and those who facilitate it, are no big deal.
Snowflakes today (even old ones) can’t get over the fact that Jesus was born as a man and selected men as His priests.
These nuns are used by Obama leftists as useless idiots. Bring back Benedict XVI and restore the Supremacy of the Chair of Peter.
Pro-abortion witch.
Oh Dear Lord.
Women’s contributions to peace.? This woman is speaking gobbledygook.
I’m a woman and I can’t even understand what she is saying.
Hey Sister, make me a sammich.
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