American Nuns Reject Vatican’s Orders – Say They Are Not Going To Stop

[SeattleGirl]

'Caring For The Least Among Us'

Last week, the order came down from the Vatican. The Leadership Conference of Women Religious (LCWR), an organization that represents 80% of the nuns in the US, was chastised for “focusing its work too much on poverty and economic injustice, while keeping ‘silent’ on abortion and same-sex marriage.” The LCWR is having none of it. In a statement Saturday, the LCWR said,

“We haven’t violated any teaching,” Sister Simone Campbell, executive director of Network, a Catholic social justice lobby, told AFP, insisting the group would not stop “caring for the least among us on the margins of society.”

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After the report was published, Campbell said it was “painfully obvious” the Vatican leadership was “not used to having educated women form thoughtful opinions and engage in dialogue.”

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“There seems to the major disconnect, where (the Vatican) seem to think that faith can only lead to one political approach,” Campbell said. The Network group, she said, “speaks for our members, not for a church. Helping others is at the heart of our faith.”

Link: http://www.addictinginfo.org/2012/04/22/...-among-us/

I saw on the these nuns on one of the MSNBC shows last week. While the nuns would never say this, of course, I had the feeling that inside they were thinking, "WTF, Vatican?"

[PoliticalTiger]

Well, good for them! Looks like women, including nuns, are getting fed up with the male hierarchy that think only men know what's best and that women need to bow down to them and submit to their will. Fight the power!

[azmouse]

I applaud them.
Their hearts are in the right place and they know what is truly important - taking care of those who have nothing. Bless them.

[Dimwitted Fool]

I suspect the nuns have realized that they will be around a lot longer than this particular Pope.

[MilesColtrane]

Stuff that in your little red shoes, Ratzi.

[jaxx]

The nuns make the old men look pretty bad. I am glad to see them speak out for humanity.