Slate's numbers were off by about half...the DoD on Friday put it at over 8,000 active and retired (900 active).
After Vatican officials ordered Chittister's superior, Prioress Christine Vladimiroff, to bar Chittister from speaking, Vladimiroff met with the sisters in Erie and all but one of them voted to oppose the ban.
Chittister delivered her address, and the Vatican backed away from its threat of a "just penalty."
Sitting in the lounge of a home in which her office is located near the Lake Erie waterfront, Chittister said she would like to be known for her advocacy for the world's poor and her pursuit of peacemaking.
But like it or not, as the Roman Catholic Church struggles to find enough clergy to serve its parishioners, the issue of women's ordination, not to mention married priests, won't go away.
Neither will her uncomfortable questions.
"I have simply argued for years that if a woman is not half a person, if she is really a full person ---- if her baptism is really as authentic as anyone else's baptism, and her call to discipleship is as deep as anyone else's, then don't we have to discuss the theological implications of this as a church?
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You 're right, CWOJackson. DOD numbers should be right and Slate admits it calculated roughly. Nonetheless, MSM should be ashamed, for not doing the homework and following NYT or AP for cluelessness.