Posted on 09/16/2009 12:34:15 PM PDT by SmithL
Everybody knows the nuns run this corner of Oak Park.
There is Sister Jane, telling a young mother that she needs to make a doctor appointment, today. Nearby, Sister Judy makes sure another woman is served a healthy breakfast. And Sister Esther, though officially retired five years, assists in the Wellspring office on Fourth Avenue.
Together, the three nuns helping the poor have served in the Catholic Church for 156 years.
"They're good women, pillars," says Deena Smith, a regular at the drop-in center that provides free breakfasts for neighborhood women and children.
What many don't know, and what has concerned the sisters and others, is that the Vatican is investigating nuns like them across the country without explaining why.
Earlier this year, the Vatican launched two investigations of American nuns, prompting speculation about what it means to the many "women religious" or sisters who have been working for decades on the front lines for the church.
"They have a lot of nerve," said Sister Esther O'Mara, referring to the investigation that seemed to come out of nowhere. O'Mara, 75, is a sister with the Institute of the Blessed Virgin Mary religious order. "What is the point? They haven't said."
They have to live with the uncertainty until the Vatican completes its investigations in 2011.
Some church experts suggest the investigations are one more sign that the Roman Catholic hierarchy doesn't understand American nuns, who are often better educated and more theologically progressive than their counterparts in other parts of the world.
"They are educated, smart women and they ask questions. Frankly, Vatican officials don't know how to deal with them," said the Rev. Thomas Reese, senior fellow at Woodstock Theological Seminary at Georgetown University.
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Theologically progressive? Does that mean they don’t believe Catholic doctrine?
Those are nuns. They look more like bingo players.
OBEDIENCE sisters. You have forgotten your vows of OBEDIENCE.
must... not... make... “probe” wise-crack... must... show... respect...
What is “theologically progressive?”
Well, I would think that this might have something to do with it, especially in CA.
Exactly.
And if they have aided and abetted anyone in committing an abortion, they’re not even Catholic.
Liberal socialists.
I gotta say that if you are a Catholic and want to work for the church, you had better believe the doctrine. Otherwise, find something else.
La limpieza is ‘a com’in.
Vatican probe of American nunneries ping.
What a biased article! It could serve as a classroom exercise on how a writer can tell his readers how they’re supposed to react to the “facts” ... “and this is what it’s like when you’re just *too obvious*, class!”
Sister Power (!) is either being disingenuous, or she's not as bright as everyone's always saying radical leftist nuns are. The Vatican has been attempting to persuade these orders to return to the Catholic Faith for many years, and has made ever-stronger institutional moves in the past decade.
The Vatican is inspecting for doctrinal "dry rot".
Why bless their hearts.
It means you have been a daring gadfly of media darlings and thumbed your nose at the Vatican.
Good on em!
It means they are commies pretending to be catholic nuns.
<<nodding
***What many don’t know, and what has concerned the sisters and others, is that the Vatican is investigating nuns like them across the country without explaining why. ***
Snicker. The Catechism has apparently been optional.
***”They have a lot of nerve,” said Sister Esther O’Mara, referring to the investigation that seemed to come out of nowhere. ***
Double snicker. The successor of St. Peter has to meet the approval of an apostate nun.
***Some church experts suggest the investigations are one more sign that the Roman Catholic hierarchy doesn’t understand American nuns, who are often better educated and more theologically progressive than their counterparts in other parts of the world.***
In other words, the Catechism has been discarded entirely. Lesbian Wiccan Gaia-worshipping cultists have the veracity to claim to be Catholic and have the entire Church paying for their lifestyle.
***”They are educated, smart women and they ask questions. Frankly, Vatican officials don’t know how to deal with them,” ***
BXVI knows exactly how to deal with them. That is the point of this article.
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