Posted on 03/04/2018 5:05:11 PM PST by marshmallow
VATICAN CITY (AP) — A Vatican magazine has denounced how nuns are often treated like indentured servants by cardinals and bishops, for whom they cook and clean for next to no pay.
The March edition of “Women Church World,” the monthly women’s magazine of the Vatican newspaper L’Osservatore Romano, hit newsstands Thursday. Its expose on the underpaid labor and unappreciated intellect of religious sisters confirmed that the magazine is increasingly becoming the imprint of the Catholic Church’s #MeToo movement.
“Some of them serve in the homes of bishops or cardinals, others work in the kitchens of church institutions or teach. Some of them, serving the men of the church, get up in the morning to make breakfast, and go to sleep after dinner is served, the house cleaned and the laundry washed and ironed,” reads one of the lead articles.
A nun identified only as Sister Marie describes how sisters serve clergy but “are rarely invited to sit at the tables they serve.”
While such servitude is common knowledge, it is remarkable that an official Vatican publication would dare put such words to paper and publicly denounce how the church systematically exploits its own nuns.
But that pluck has begun to define “Women Church World,” which launched six years ago as a monthly insert in L’Osservatore Romano and is now a stand-alone magazine distributed for free online and alongside the printed newspaper in Italian, Spanish, French and English.
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Maybe that's why Bergolio picked the homosexual Monsignor Battista Ricca to be his housemother at Domus Sanctae Marthae.
Please tell me my reading glasses are working? I cannot decipher your last sentence!?! Oh my!
We live in an upside down world and I barely recognize any of it. I read things and I have no words.
Ha ha, I read things and have no clue!
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