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'Nuns on the Bus' take off from Jersey City to campaign for immigration reform
Jersey Journal ^ | May 29 , 2013

Posted on 05/29/2013 4:56:25 PM PDT by SMGFan

A busload of nuns will be road warriors for the next three weeks as they take their campaign to achieve comprehensive immigration reform on the road.

Nuns on the Bus, a project of the national Catholic social justice lobby Network, kicked off their 40-city, 6,500-mile bus ride at Liberty State Park in Jersey City this morning. The tour ends at San Francisco's Angel Island, the Ellis Island of the west coast.

Sister Simone Campbell of Washington, D.C., one of the leaders of the group, said the immigration project has "taken on a life of its own." Last year, the group engaged in a bus tour that was focused on raising the public's consciousness about poverty.

"It's important to cast light on the 11 million people living in the shadows because they're undocumented," said Sister Arlene Flaherty about this year's road trip.

(Excerpt) Read more at nj.com ...


TOPICS: Government; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: aliens; sistersnotnuns
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To: Nateman

Because they’re German and that = Nazis - the bad socialists. Plus they homeschool = reactionaries and likely Christians.


21 posted on 05/29/2013 6:38:12 PM PDT by 1010RD (First, Do No Harm)
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To: Nateman
How about these nuns fight for the family that escaped from Germany to homeschool their kids here? Obama is trying to send them back. Amazing how it always the groups that vote RAT that get the public agitation is it not?

It would be a cold day in hell before that happened. The German family are Evangelicals

22 posted on 05/29/2013 6:47:21 PM PDT by Lera (Proverbs 29:2)
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To: SMGFan

This is not what Nuns are supposed to do. It must be an outlaw band of Dykes out for a vacation.

If it isn’t the Church should be ashamed for allowing them to use the Catholic Church for such a purpose.

I have the greatest respect for Nuns who wear habits and love Jesus. The others are just feminists in disguise.


23 posted on 05/29/2013 6:50:21 PM PDT by Venturer
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To: SMGFan

Why can’t a ruling authority put a stop to this unseemly behavior of activist nuns?


24 posted on 05/29/2013 6:51:46 PM PDT by stars & stripes forever ((Blessed is the nation whose God is the Lord!))
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'Nuns(sic) on the Bus' take off from Jersey City to campaign for immigration reform

'Sisters on the Bus'. These apostate nitwits can't even be honest about what they really are.

25 posted on 05/29/2013 7:32:21 PM PDT by A.A. Cunningham (Barry Soetoro can't pass E-verify)
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To: FreedomStar3028
Liberal nuns don't bother dressing as nuns:


26 posted on 05/29/2013 7:59:50 PM PDT by iowamark
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To: iowamark

What is the point of this? All the good immigrants already came decades ago, and helped build this country by WORKING HARD.

Most of the other immigrants that want in, would kill us all if they had the chance, or lazy ass gangbanger Mexicans. Of course, there are exceptions to both crowds.

I cannot understand how we got to this point.


27 posted on 05/29/2013 8:15:28 PM PDT by FreedomStar3028
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To: 353FMG

I never knew a nun ... and we called them ‘sisters’ .. not nuns ... without a habit until around that time also.


28 posted on 05/29/2013 8:36:20 PM PDT by knarf (I say things that are true ... I can't prove it, but they're true)
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To: Venturer

I think you mean FEMINIST DYKES in disguise


29 posted on 05/29/2013 8:58:24 PM PDT by 5th MEB (Progressives in the open; --- FIRE FOR EFFECT!!)
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To: SMGFan
The sisters will be travelling on a bus they have dubbed
"Furthur Into Oblivion" (FIB for short). The colorful troupe
is headed by Sister Kenyetta Kesey, the heart and soul of
this band of intrepid ladies of the paisley cloth. Joining her
will be Sister Kennette Babs, Sister "Mountain Girl" Magdalene,
and the poet Sister Allana Ginsburg. And of course steering
this expedition, the incomparable driver and monologue stream-of-conscious
commentary on the passing scene extraordinaire, Sister
Nellie Cassady. They will be stopping along the way,
allowing others trial rides, to determine if such
individuals should be on the bus or off the bus. They
caution that their humor runs to acidic, so prospective
riders be advised.
30 posted on 05/29/2013 9:16:20 PM PDT by jobim (.)
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To: 5th MEB

These nutcase “nuns” are in open rebellion with the Vatican and with Pope Francis now in charge it’s a matter of time before they are excommunicated. As a write this the Archbishop of Seattle Peter Sartain is conducting a former investigation of these characters requested by the Vatican.

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/06/06/us/us-nuns-bus-tour-to-spotlight-social-issues.html?_r=0

The last time “Nuns on the Bus” rolled out of town the bus was almost empty: only two made the entire trip, and never were there more than seven on the (luxury) bus at any one time. Today, they are leaving from Jersey City and will end their magical mystery tour in San Francisco. The gig is being funded by Organizing for Action (OFA).

Interestingly, the website address of OFA is barackobama.com; it was set up earlier this year as a means of implementing the Obama agenda. While the nuns are promoting immigration reform, OFA is also advocating ObamaCare, a component of which is the anti-Catholic Health and Human Services Mandate. But these nuns, who expressly eschew commenting on abortion, are not troubled by such matters.

OFA is a 501(c)(4) non-profit organization. Unlike conservative groups who previously filed for this status, OFA has not been subjected to harassment. Small wonder. It also helps when a 501(c)(4) launches before applying for tax-exempt status; it has yet to do so. Also, OFA pledges to disclose the names of donors who give more than $250 on its website. It says it will do so on a quarterly basis, but this is untrue: it has been in operation for over four months, but has yet to do so; it says it will make these disclosures “in the near future.”

On the “Nuns on the Bus” website, it lists a job opening for a Field Coordinator. Unsurprisingly, nowhere in the job description does it say anything about a commitment to Catholic teachings. Indeed, the word Catholic doesn’t even appear. The closest it comes is a sentence about the “spiritual side” of the “Nuns on the Bus.” Here is what it says: “On the spiritual side, we need someone who can keep our community as motivated as they were the day the bus rolled into town and to capture that motivation and turn it into action.”

That’s as close as “Nuns on the Bus” is going to get about matters spiritual—never mind Catholic—taking action on behalf of Obama.

http://www.catholicleague.org/


31 posted on 05/30/2013 4:11:44 AM PDT by NKP_Vet
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To: 1010RD

The thing is that the Church is not a monolithic dictatorship with strict HR direction. And with Vatican II as a further widening of the gap between the US and the Vatican, the moral drift started to become very noticeable. However, the mechanisms for correcting heresy (which never have been that immediately powerful any time in Church history) were also lessened.

Remember that the Church measures time in centuries, not weeks. And its correction, unfortunately, takes decades, if not centuries. Look at the Church response to heresies throughout its history.


32 posted on 05/30/2013 5:11:14 AM PDT by MarkBsnr (I would not believe in the Gospel, if the authority of the Catholic Church did not move me to do so.)
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To: knarf

You mean, you addressed them with the title, “sister”.

But they were still nuns.


33 posted on 05/30/2013 7:28:59 AM PDT by 353FMG ( I do not say whether I am serious or sarcastic -- I respect FReepers too much.)
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To: knarf

“Hey, Sister... that’s a baaaaaad habit...”
:)


34 posted on 05/30/2013 7:31:11 AM PDT by MrB (The difference between a Humanist and a Satanist - the latter admits whom he's working for)
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To: 353FMG

sistah says ....


35 posted on 05/30/2013 8:17:14 AM PDT by knarf (I say things that are true ... I can't prove it, but they're true)
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To: FreedomStar3028

we will meet them in bakersfield and tell them to shove their immigration reform ideas up their ass. they should donate that bus to ice to run illegals back to the border.


36 posted on 05/30/2013 3:48:39 PM PDT by Bravo six (Bravo six)
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