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Eugene

(61,899 posts) Tue Dec 16, 2014, 10:25 AM Dec 2014

Vatican report on U.S. nuns is conciliatory, stresses teachings

Source: Reuters

Vatican report on U.S. nuns is conciliatory, stresses teachings

BY PHILIP PULLELLA
VATICAN CITY Tue Dec 16, 2014 9:18am EST

(Reuters) - A keenly-awaited Vatican report on Roman Catholic nuns in the United States struck a conciliatory tone on Tuesday, praising them for their social and educational work but urging them to stick to Church teachings.

The report is the result of an investigation launched in 2008 after some Vatican officials and U.S. bishops voiced concern that some American nuns had adopted a secular mentality and been infiltrated by what one official at the time called "radical feminism".

The inquiry, begun during the papacy of former Pope Benedict, involved 341 religious orders and about 50,000 nuns.

Sister Sharon Holland, a leading U.S. nun, told a news conference presenting the 12-page report that while many sisters at the time reacted with "apprehension and suspicion", the final report had "an encouraging and realistic tone".

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Vatican report on U.S. nuns is conciliatory, stresses teachings (Original Post) Eugene Dec 2014 OP

Doesn't look like the Vatican had to change anything Goblinmonger Dec 2014 #1

I believe some very wise people said that the Vatican would ignore the nuns at their peril! trotsky Dec 2014 #2

Well, if "peril" Goblinmonger Dec 2014 #3

Keep working at what you're good at Sisters edhopper Dec 2014 #4

Well, that is seriously wishy washy, but I think the nuns anticipated that it would cbayer Dec 2014 #5

It takes a certain kind of person skepticscott Dec 2014 #6

Goblinmonger

(22,340 posts)

1. Doesn't look like the Vatican had to change anything

Reply to Eugene (Original post)

Tue Dec 16, 2014, 10:43 AM

Dec 2014

"You do good work ladies; stop with the stuff we don't teach, though."

trotsky

(49,533 posts)

2. I believe some very wise people said that the Vatican would ignore the nuns at their peril!

Reply to Goblinmonger (Reply #1)

Tue Dec 16, 2014, 10:48 AM

Dec 2014

The peril seems to have ended up not all that perilous.

Goblinmonger

(22,340 posts)

3. Well, if "peril"

Reply to trotsky (Reply #2)

Tue Dec 16, 2014, 11:07 AM

Dec 2014

means patting the nuns on the head, telling them to keep up the good works, and telling them to leave the thinking about stances on issues to the men, then, yeah, there was a lot of peril going on.

edhopper

(33,580 posts)

4. Keep working at what you're good at Sisters

Reply to Eugene (Original post)

Tue Dec 16, 2014, 11:08 AM

Dec 2014

but don't start trying to think for yourselves.

Got it.

praising them for their social and educational work but urging them to stick to Church teachings.

cbayer

(146,218 posts)

5. Well, that is seriously wishy washy, but I think the nuns anticipated that it would

Reply to Eugene (Original post)

Tue Dec 16, 2014, 11:45 AM

Dec 2014

be much worse.

They had a lot of apprehension about a crack down and this is more of an olive branch.

No one (in their right mind) expected that this would be in any way progressive, but if one wants to look for silver linings, it is at least not damning.

skepticscott

(13,029 posts)

6. It takes a certain kind of person

Reply to cbayer (Reply #5)

Tue Dec 16, 2014, 12:05 PM

Dec 2014

to regard the unequivocal re-iteration of institutionalized sexism as a "silver lining".

Wouldn't you agree?

And why would that busload of nuns be afraid of a "crackdown"? Didn't someone here say that the Vatican would do that "at their peril"?

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