Posted on 09/24/2015 7:39:05 PM PDT by Citizen Zed
When the nuns first hit the road in 2012, their mission was to collect stories of economic oppression in protest of the Paul Ryan budget — in defiant response to Pope Benedict XVI's startling decision to launch an investigation into the Leadership Conference of Women Religious, an umbrella group that represents more than 80 percent of religious sisters in the United States. The investigation was an outright attack on women's role in the Church and was referred to as "a crackdown on American nuns." Their alleged transgression was spending too much time on social justice issues, and promoting "certain radical feminist themes incompatible with the Catholic faith."
NETWORK was singled out in part because it supported the Affordable Care Act, despite the protest of the bishops.
In April, Pope Francis brought the investigation to a "quiet and merciful end." Recently, during an address broadcast on ABC News, Pope Francis even expressed his admiration for nuns. "Is it unseemly for the pope to say this? I love you all very much," he said, before thanking all the sisters of religious orders in the United States.
The pope's olive branch came just days before the Nuns on the Bus launched their recent tour. Rolling Stone checked in with the sisters throughout their voyage.
Missouri (September 10-11) To drive home the theme of "bridging the divides," the nuns launch their tour in St. Louis, Missouri.
They roll into town just ahead of GOP presidential hopefuls, who will spend the weekend addressing a crowd of Christian conservatives at the airport Marriott across town.
The sisters gather in plain view of the Gateway Arch and the courthouse where in 1847 judges ruled that Dred Scott was not a free man.
(Excerpt) Read more at rollingstone.com ...
Network started out as a phone-booth operation, largely in DC, back in the 1970’s. They were far-left, domestic “liberation theology” types who joined with Marxist groups like EPICA, WOLA, and Committee?? of Concern, in various Marxist united fronts on El Salvador (supported the reds of the FLMN) and Nicaragua, the Marxists of the Sandinista Liberation Front (FSLN).
Always pro-Castro, never pro-freedom.
You’ll find very little about Network other than some research papers by the Capitol Research Center and maybe a book on CISPES, the Communist Party USA/CP of El Salvador propaganda arm in the US.
These people, coupled with the Pope’s tirades against the West, should be sufficient to remove the tax-exempt status of the Church in the US. It is no longer a religious organization, but a community-organizing business...
I think removing the tax-exempt status is way overdue. If the “churches” want to play politics with the big boys, make them pay. They all are political organizations now.
In my area they’ve sold off their hospitals and closed many of their schools; they seem to be basically political lobbyists.
It wasn’t a problem with Martin Luther King’s effort. The power to tax is the power to destroy & people don’t lose their rights because of religious beliefs. Do you want the IRS determining which religions survive and which don’t.
The priests and nuns who marched with MLK were actually skid row bums, alcoholics, and prostitutes who were told to put on the costumes.
They already do, don’t they?
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.