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American Nuns Honor Pro-Abortion Cokie Roberts as Vatican Investigation Continues
Lifesitenews ^ | August 13, 2009 | Kathleen Gilbert

Posted on 08/14/2009 6:56:02 AM PDT by Pope Pius XII

While American Catholic nuns continue to undergo scrutiny from a Vatican investigation, the Leadership Conference of Women Religious (LCWR) invited Cokie Roberts, a political commentator who has criticized the Church's prohibition against abortion, contraception, and homosexuality, as the keynote speaker for their annual meeting this week. Another Catholic group, Supporting Our Aging Religious (SOAR), has announced it will host a dinner in honor of Roberts and her husband Steve in November of this year.

New Orleans native Cokie Roberts spoke at the LCWR summit in the same city Tuesday, according to a Times-Picayune report.

Cokie Roberts, a Roman Catholic, is an ABC News political commentator and National Public Radio senior news analyst who has spoken out against laws restricting abortion. Roberts characterized the partial-birth abortion ban as "cynical game-playing" by pro-life activists, and said she found it "offensive as a woman" that the Supreme Court upheld the ban in 2007.

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TOPICS: Activism; Religion & Culture; Religion & Politics
KEYWORDS: catholic; sistersnotnuns; somenuns
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To: al_c
[they] will host a dinner in honor of Roberts and her husband Steve

Since they're investigating, what are they going to do with all the liberal nuns they find?

21 posted on 08/14/2009 1:06:58 PM PDT by my_pointy_head_is_sharp
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To: NYer
This will be an opportunity to be who we are and to speak our truth

Not THE truth, mind you, but OUR truth. This phrasing speaks volumes. What was it the Pope said about the dictatorship of relativism?

22 posted on 08/14/2009 1:14:14 PM PDT by Unam Sanctam
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To: DieHard the Hunter; NYer; markomalley
Well, I'm another one that doesn't understand. The American sisters' religious communities have lost almost 70% of their membership since their peak in 1966 (179,000) until now (59,000.)

They drove out the devout and traditional over the past 40 years, and now the remainder, the feminist dissenters who took over the institutions, are graying rapidly. Only 10% of the sisters in the religious orders are under the age of 60. They're not attracting novices. They're dying out.

And that's OK.

By the way, the newer religious orders in the USA which ARE growing, are both more traditionalist, more on-the-same-team-as-the-Pope, AND more nonwhite (about 40% of the new novices in the USA are Latina, Asian/Pacific, or African/African-American.)

And that's MORE than OK.

23 posted on 08/14/2009 1:18:05 PM PDT by Mrs. Don-o ("Every system is perfectly designed to get the results it gets." - Isaac Asimov)
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To: my_pointy_head_is_sharp; al_c
Make them sit in the Comfy Chair. And then... the soft cushionsssszzzzz..
24 posted on 08/14/2009 1:24:33 PM PDT by Mrs. Don-o ("Every system is perfectly designed to get the results it gets." - Isaac Asimov)
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To: Mrs. Don-o
No .... not the comfy chair!!!!!!

LOL!

25 posted on 08/14/2009 1:30:20 PM PDT by al_c (Our government is not a spectator sport.)
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To: NYer

Closing ranks?


26 posted on 08/14/2009 2:49:41 PM PDT by RobbyS (ECCE HOMO!)
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To: Unam Sanctam
What was it the Pope said about the dictatorship of relativism?

How many winds of doctrine have we known in recent decades, how many ideological currents, how many ways of thinking. The small boat of the thought of many Christians has often been tossed about by these waves - flung from one extreme to another: from Marxism to liberalism, even to libertinism; from collectivism to radical individualism; from atheism to a vague religious mysticism; from agnosticism to syncretism and so forth. Every day new sects spring up, and what St Paul says about human deception and the trickery that strives to entice people into error (cf. Eph 4: 14) comes true.

Today, having a clear faith based on the Creed of the Church is often labeled as fundamentalism. Whereas relativism, that is, letting oneself be "tossed here and there, carried about by every wind of doctrine", seems the only attitude that can cope with modern times. We are building a dictatorship of relativism that does not recognize anything as definitive and whose ultimate goal consists solely of one's own ego and desires.

We, however, have a different goal: the Son of God, the true man. He is the measure of true humanism. An "adult" faith is not a faith that follows the trends of fashion and the latest novelty; a mature adult faith is deeply rooted in friendship with Christ. It is this friendship that opens us up to all that is good and gives us a criterion by which to distinguish the true from the false, and deceipt from truth.

We must develop this adult faith; we must guide the flock of Christ to this faith. And it is this faith - only faith - that creates unity and is fulfilled in love.

On this theme, St Paul offers us as a fundamental formula for Christian existence some beautiful words, in contrast to the continual vicissitudes of those who, like children, are tossed about by the waves: make truth in love. Truth and love coincide in Christ. To the extent that we draw close to Christ, in our own lives too, truth and love are blended. Love without truth would be blind; truth without love would be like "a clanging cymbal" (I Cor 13: 1).

HOMILY OF HIS EMINENCE CARD. JOSEPH RATZINGER

He nails it, doesn't he!

27 posted on 08/14/2009 3:13:11 PM PDT by NYer ( "One Who Prays Is Not Afraid; One Who Prays Is Never Alone"- Benedict XVI)
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To: NYer

I gathered that Cokie Roberts was a liberal but I did not know that she was pro-abort, pro-homosexual adoption, etc..

It is a true shame since her mother, Congresswoman Lindy Boggs was strongly prolife.


28 posted on 08/14/2009 4:07:54 PM PDT by iowamark (certified by Michael Steele as "ugly and incendiary")
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To: Pope Pius XII; informavoracious; larose; RJR_fan; Prospero; Conservative Vermont Vet; ...
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Obama Says A Baby Is A Punishment

Obama: “If they make a mistake, I don’t want them punished with a baby.”

29 posted on 08/14/2009 6:43:08 PM PDT by narses (http://www.theobamadisaster.com/)
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To: Pope Pius XII

The headline editor obviously doesn’t understand the big difference between being a sister and being a nun.


30 posted on 08/14/2009 7:56:46 PM PDT by A.A. Cunningham (Barry Soetoro is a Kenyan communist)
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To: Hildy
I haven’t seen Cokie Roberts for years..didn’t even know she was still active.

As a guest last week on George Stefanopoulous when discussing the rowdy Town Hall meetings she quipped, "I blame this alll on the shortage of nuns because if these jpeople had been raised by nuns they would behave this way." She was laughing as she made this joke, but I'm sure that it got some of the forgotten nuns out there all a-twitter!

31 posted on 08/14/2009 7:59:14 PM PDT by afraidfortherepublic
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To: Never on my watch

And there you have it! eternal salvation coming from the womb!


32 posted on 08/15/2009 11:47:53 AM PDT by red irish (Gods Children in the womb are to be loved too!)
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