Don't doubt the power of nuns! The Vatican should think twice about pulling rank on them.

Nuns and librarians. They are FIERCE!

Oh wait, never mind.

Seriously the Vatican cover up ran all the way to the top and cost the church millions of dollars and followers and I don't recall a single nun being mentioned in all of it.

Wasn't that in the vows?

They aren't trying hard enough to control women's sex lives.

"the Vatican's doctrinal watchdog issued a report questioning the organization's loyalty to some Church teachings, including the nuns' lack of outspokenness on issues such as gay marriage, abortion and contraception."

Unitarian Universalist
United Church of Christ
Episcopal Church
ELCA

The world is your oyster...

...the only one that makes sense is to just leave and form their own organization.

The Vatican and the assholes who run it really aren't worth all this time, effort, and heartburn. The nuns have work to do. Let them get back at it without Roman interference.

They taught in the parochial schools, were nurses in the Catholic hospitals, were domestic servants for the rectories and churches--cleaning, scrubbing floors & toilets, and the list goes on & on...
When they were too old and spent they found there was no retirement plans, no insurance, no place for them. Some were just disposed of--yet they tried to take care of each other with hardly any means.
Meanwhile the Cardinals and Pope in Rome had and still have their clothes cleaned & ironed brought to them by valets and their dressers on silver trays and then assisted with dressing to get ready for the breakfast prepared for them by excellent cooks.
The Catholic organization systematically enables and defends the covert pedophilic lifestyle of the misogynous hierarchy.
It has no relationship with the original work of Jesus, His Friends and Followers except to blasphemy/cower behind and use His name for their own gain. What we see in the press is merely the tip of the ice berg as to what corruption actually exists, even to this day, in the Catholic institution. Yet they take collections of their struggling parishioners to support their evil ways.
For too long Nuns have "shut up and put up". Now the tide has changed.

I always asked my parents why the nuns in our parish lived crammed into a cinderblock convent, cooking and cleaning for themselves when the priests lived in the nice house with a cook and and housekeeper.

They said "because the priests work so hard". I suggested that the nuns looked like they worked pretty hard too, teaching school and working in hospitals. "But the priests have to say all those Masses, and visit people in the hospital, and visit people in their homes". Still didn't add up, which is probably why I'm not a Catholic anymore.

As for the pedophilia, I think any time you have a bunch of men running things with little or no oversight and little or no input from women, you end up with a university football scandal, or a priest scandal, or crashing the entire economy/toying with worldwide interest rates.

is spot on.

And no, I don't hate men.

Just kidding, but I love how you think. It's all really that simple.

The liars of the world know how to make the simple beyond our understanding, and the complex black and white.

And as long as people refuse to do their own thinking, and look for the actions to match the words, the liars will continue to take advantage of us, under whatever disguise we all accept: religious, political, educational, environmental, you name it.

rather than continue under the control of sexually repressed men wearing robes and silly hats.

For the Vatican, that is.

I hope the headcheese nuns get to tell the pope to fuck off.

but maybe that's doesn't fit in with the integrity they want to keep

And invading cathedrals to denounce the tyranny of the papacy.

No ... I know it would never really happen. But boy, it's fun to imagine.

And take the priests-of-conscience with you.