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American nuns struggled to respond Friday to a Vatican crackdown on what it calls “radical feminism” among the women and their purported failure to sufficiently condemn such issues as abortion and same-sex marriage.

Some nuns in the Leadership Conference of Women Religious characterized the disciplinary action announced Wednesday as an “ambush,” but others — including the leadership — said they couldn’t publicly comment on a system that mandates their obedience. The 1,500-member conference represents the vast majority of the country’s 57,000 nuns.“
People are stunned,” said Sister Pat McDermott, president of the 3,500-member Sisters of Mercy of the Americas, based in Silver Spring. “They’re outraged, angry, frustrated, they don’t know where this came from and how to hold it.”

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In other War on Women news, even after they're dead:

Egypt plans 'farewell intercourse law'

Egyptian husbands will soon be legally allowed to have sex with their dead wives - for up to six hours after their death. The controversial new law is part of a raft of measures being introduced by the Islamist-dominated parliament. It will also see the minimum age of marriage lowered to 14 and the ridding of women's rights of getting education and employment.

If this is the Arab Spring, I can't wait to see what Summer will bring.

K.

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Perhaps if the good nuns indulged in some child abuse they would benefit from some support from the Vatican. As we all know, the Church was an excellent long established track record in supporting pedophiles.

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I sometimes wonder if the so-called 'clash of the civilisations' - the confrontation between fundamentalist Islam and fundamentalist Christianity

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I sometimes wonder if my periodic opposition to elements of your thinking is warranted

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Islamic militants with ties to terror group al-Qaida have launched the "ethnic cleansing of minority Christians" in Syria, forcing tens of thousands of people to flee the embattled Syrian city of Homs and other areas, aid workers confirmed Tuesday, March 27.

At least 90 percent of Christians living in Homs have fled after "fanatics" forced them to leave their homes, said Dutch aid group 'Kerk in Nood', or Church in Need.

It added that the exodus of 50,000 people mainly took place in the last six weeks. "They have fled to villages and in the mountains, sometimes as far as 50 kilometers from their homes. We have reports that Islamists 'cleansed' the Homs areas of Hamidiya en Bustan al-Diwan without giving them the opportunity to anything with them," the group told Worthy News in a statement.

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Perhaps if the good nuns indulged in some child abuse they would benefit from some support from the Vatican. As we all know, the Church was an excellent long established track record in supporting pedophiles.

I can only shake my head and wonder what kind of morality inspires an organisation to protect child rapists while attacking nuns for promoting social justice. It simply beggars belief that this Church insists that its moral pronouncements be taken seriously by any one until it has undergone a very long very sincere and very public act of contrition for its past and ongoing crimes.

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I might be concerned if I ever get to see any evidence of you thinking,

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Indeed Stern, some "pissing contest" - sure these guys are all as bad as each other, right? Just like a thirteen year old Somalian girl stoned to death for the crime of being raped http://www.jihadwatch.org/2008/11/somali-girl-pleaded-for-mercy-before-being-stoned-her-to-death-for-being-raped.html - some entertainment for a crowd of 1000 onlookers.

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Indeed Stern, some "pissing contest" - sure these guys are all as bad as each other, right? Just like a thirteen year old Somalian girl stoned to death for the crime of being raped http://www.jihadwatch.org/2008/11/somali-girl-pleaded-for-mercy-before-being-stoned-her-to-death-for-being-raped.html - some entertainment for a crowd of 1000 onlookers.

Yep... and I'll say one thing right now. I took myself and my family OUT of the local Catholic parish after having to have my second marriage consecrated by the church so my children could be baptized once they were born... not too long after the second one's baptism, I had a colleague wave a headline in my face about the very priest who was in my home and baptized one of my two children, who'd been picked up in an internet sting.
I felt compelled to write a lengthy letter to the diocese and withdrew.
However, I find it LAUGHABLE when who just resents christians grabs the straw, WITHOUT ANY STAKE, WITHOUT ANY INTEREST IN A RESOLUTION. Where I come from that's called bigotry.
And I think it is where you come from too.

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That article is astonishingly horrid to see happening still in this century.

I hope the Islamic leaders step in a resolve that quickly. There seems to be so much concern about the behavior of catholics, I'll have to presume they're sending in the 'marines' on an ugly one like that.

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unfounded SMEAR ?

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Agreed, there is an awful lot to criticise the Church for but it should be proportionate rather than an effort to simply demonise because there are many well meaning decent people in that institution too.

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That article is astonishingly horrid to see happening still in this century.

I hope the Islamic leaders step in a resolve that quickly. There seems to be so much concern about the behavior of catholics, I'll have to presume they're sending in the 'marines' on an ugly one like that.


Unfortunately it doesn't look like moderation and tolerance are becoming trends with the Grand Mufti of Saudi Arabia calling for the destruction of all churches in the Arabian Pennensula just a few weeks ago. Unfortunately it looks like those defending women's rights aren't much interested in the mistreatment of women in the Islamic world either http://fullcomment.nationalpost.com/2011/03/12/phyllis-chesler-turning-a-blind-eye-to-islams-brutal-treatment-of-women/

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I sometimes wonder if the so-called 'clash of the civilisations' - the confrontation between fundamentalist Islam and fundamentalist Christianity

unfounded SMEAR ?
Hardly.