Our point is, the vatican has reason to believe the wimmens is up to something.
The Vatican is quietly conducting two sweeping investigations of American nuns, a development that has startled and dismayed nuns who fear they are the targets of a doctrinal inquisition. "I wish they wouldn't use the term 'inquisition,'" said Cardinal Franc Rodé, head of the Vatican office that deals with religious orders.
Some sisters surmise that the Vatican and even some American bishops are trying to shift them back into living in convents, wearing habits or at least identifiable religious garb, ordering their schedules around daily prayers and working primarily in Roman Catholic institutions, like rectories, schools, hospitals and rectories. "We understand that in these more relaxed times, the full metal penguin isn't always going to be appropriate," Cardinal Rodé told reporters. "But we feel some sisters have become a little too...uh...relaxed in their manner of dress. Excuse me, could someone open a window?"
“They think of us as ecclesiastical migrant workers,” said Sister Sandra M. Schneiders, professor emerita of New Testament and Self Defense at the Betty Friedan School of Theology at Berkeley, California. “We are religious, hear us roar. Our vision of our lives, and their vision of us as domestics, are just not on the same planet. And yeah, I'm talking to you Pope Ratzoball. Let's see you run this church without my girls. Yeesh. Guy thinks the fact that his underwear drawer is never empty is a variation on the miracle of the loves and fishes.”
The more extensive of the two investigations is called an Apostolic Beatdown, and the Vatican has provided only a vague rationale for it: to “Check skirt length and zipper placement” at women’s religious institutes. The visitation is being conducted by Mother Mary Magdalen Margaret "Martyrs of Lesbos" Carmen Clare Catherine de Rici Millea, an apple-cheeked American with a black habit and smiling eye, who is the superior general of her order, the Sisters of Apostles of the Followers of the Guys Who Talked To The Guys Who Watched First Annual The Sacred Heart of Jesus Cross Country Crucifix Carry, and lives down the hall from the pope.
The investigation was ordered by Cardinal Rodé. In a speech in Massachusetts last year, Cardinal Rodé offered barbed criticism of some American nuns “who have opted for ways that take them outside” the church. "It's bad enough that we have to excuse them from their godly duty to pump out little catholics," Rodé said. "But now they are demanding things like educations, better working conditions, respect. Who do they think they are, priests?"
Given this backdrop, Sister Schneiders, the professor in Berkeley, urged her fellow sisters not to cooperate with the visitation, saying the investigators should be treated as “Jehovah's Witnesses.”
Mother Clare said she was aware that some women’s institutes “weren’t happy” to hear of the visitation, but that so far about 55 percent had responded in person or in writing. "Although I do wonder where they learned language like that", she mused.
According to Dick Cheney, the consultant hired by the vatican to advise them on matters of transparency, the visitation could result in some communities of nuns’ being ordered to make changes, but those consequences may never become public.
The second investigation of nuns is a doctrinal can o' whoop-ass to be opened on the Leadership Conference of Women Religious, an umbrella organization that claims 1,500 members from about 95 percent of women’s religious orders. This investigation was ordered by the Vatican’s Congregation for the Bustin' of the Chops, which is headed by an American, Cardinal William (Wee Willie) Levada.
Cardinal Levada sent a letter to the Leadership Conference saying an investigation was warranted because it appeared that the organization had done little since it was warned eight years ago that it had failed to “promote” the church’s teachings on three issues: Dudes is Primo, homos is whack and the Roman Catholic Church is da bomb.
The letter goes on to say that, “Given both the tenor and the doctrinal content of various addresses” at assemblies the Leadership Conference has held in recent years, the problem has not been fixed. "I mean, last week one of the office nuns told me to get my own damn coffee," Cardinal Levada said. "Things are getting out of control."
“We are looking forward to clarifying some misperceptions,” Sister J. Lora Dambroski, president of the Leadership Conference, said in the e-mail message. "My foot up that pig's behind to my knee ought to clear up quite a few things," Dambroski added in a post script.
Sisters Schneiders and Dambroski and their staff prepare a Welcoming Reception for Cardinal Rodé and Cardinal Levada. 
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6 comments:
The very, very best!!!!!!!!
(lmao!)
Nuns with Guns.
Has a nice ring to it!
I must say, I have known some nuns, and even ex-nuns, I dont see where the complaints come from?
It's unfortunate that Gloria Steinem didn't get her message across to the ninety "kids". Us older gals just shake our heads and wonder where all that learning went on that "even deaf at forty" men.
There will be no sisters , no brothers, , no priests, if the Church keeps self-destructing. Maybe that' s what the Word truly needs to really "heal" thyself. And Israel better listen up, too. Fascism is fascism.
Jesus, Mary & Joseph! I feel Sister Mary Jane breathing down my back from fifty years ago.(I refused to wear the "complete" uniform as I did not dig seams in my stockings nor a "kentucky bow tie"...you can laugh, but that was before Marilyn Monroe wore those kind of steamy affairs be it with a top hat or lingerie ...maybe the principal shouting "It's a mortal sin to hold hands!" destroyed whatever sense of "sensibility" remained, and to this day, I go out of my way not to dress like "the crowd".
Mother Clare is a the typical frumpy , toothless and overweight busy body,( not unlike a frequent neighbor- plague that swishes in and out of street corners and alleyways and gets in your face if you don't pick up your chewing gum)... even if tossed at the school prefect. It seemed all the ugly nuns were way out of line because that is how they get accepted; by the board, by the clergy and by the parents who wanted the very toughest and meanest broad to "rule and guide" their kids.
Mother Clare may look "innocent on the outside, but I can guarantee she is something to be reckoned with otherwise she would not have been chosen to be the "jail guard".
Meanwhile, Sister Sandra is hip and likable and obviously evolved with time.
Like the Republicans who refuse to soften their image and accept evolution, The Mother Clare's distort and lock human suffering and their own malice into time capsules ,puctuated with their hatred of men, beautiful women and of course, a lot of general rejection.
Ironically, the Church still thinks that is the way to capture an audience. Dwindling church -goers know better.
The ugliest were always the ugliest. They were the ones who never had any choice BUT to be a nun.
Hopefully, things have changed and will remain so.
Religions have to offer something more than full metal penguins. Pagano has done that with "guns to church" but that was too easy.
Hopefully, some may think , "reflection".
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