American Nuns Honor Pro-Abortion Cokie Roberts as Vatican Investigation Continues

Lifesitenews ^ | August 13, 2009 | Kathleen Gilbert

[my_pointy_head_is_sharp]

[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?

[Unam Sanctam]

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?

[Mrs. Don-o]

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.

[Mrs. Don-o]

Make them sit in the Comfy Chair. And then... the soft cushionsssszzzzz..

[al_c]

No .... not the comfy chair!!!!!!

LOL!

[RobbyS]

Closing ranks?

[NYer]

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!

[iowamark]

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.

[narses]

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[A.A. Cunningham]

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

[afraidfortherepublic]

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!

[red irish]

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