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Related: About this forumDoug Koesel, Cleveland Priest, Writes: What The Nuns' Story Is Really About
Posted: 06/01/2012 8:57 am Updated: 06/01/2012 2:19 pm
The Vatican orthodoxy watch dog group known as the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith announced in April its intention to overhaul the largest organization of American nuns known as the The Leadership Conference of Women Religious (LCWR).
The claim was that the group was taking positions that undermine Roman Catholic teaching on the priesthood and homosexuality while promoting "certain radical feminist themes incompatible with the Catholic faith."
The crackdown has provoked reactions across the country in support of the nuns. None of the responses have been as heartfelt and forthright as this letter from Fr. Doug Koesel a parish priest serving at the Blessed Trinity Catholic Church in Cleveland, Ohio which is printed below with permission.
Many of you have asked me to comment on the recent investigation into the US nuns. Here goes. In short, the Vatican has asked for an investigation into the life of religious women in the United States. There is a concern about orthodoxy, feminism and pastoral practice. The problem with the Vatican approach is that it places the nuns squarely on the side of Jesus and the Vatican on the side of tired old men, making a last gasp to save a crumbling kingdom lost long ago for a variety of reasons.
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cbayer
(146,218 posts)They should have let that sleeping dog lie.
skepticscott
(13,029 posts)and no power to change how women in the church are treated. They'll meet, they'll talk and pray, they'll protest in whatever little way the men will permit them, but in the end, they will be regarded by the red hat club just the way they always have...as second class citizens. They can either live with that, or leave.
laconicsax
(14,860 posts)rug
(82,333 posts)Immensely.
laconicsax
(14,860 posts)Would it be out of line for me to return the favor?
rug
(82,333 posts)laconicsax
(14,860 posts)rug
(82,333 posts)while ignoring your dangling clause . . .
is hardly an acceptance of your insinuation.
Accept that.
Now, do intend to call me a troll directly or simply to continue your pattern of unfounded insinuation?
laconicsax
(14,860 posts)If it means that much to you, I suppose I can oblige.
rug
(82,333 posts)You are so predictable.
laconicsax
(14,860 posts)
Do I get a cut if you reach $100?
rug
(82,333 posts)Why I just said to an unnamed person, "I bet double or nothing laconicsax feigns jocularity." I did!
laconicsax
(14,860 posts)rug
(82,333 posts)laconicsax
(14,860 posts)You know, something that says that the money donated in my name will be used as hush money to help cover up crimes committed by Church officials?
rug
(82,333 posts)I'll mark the envelope so that it goes directly to the laconicsax hush money fund.
I'll mark mine for the rug retired nuns health fund.
laconicsax
(14,860 posts)rug
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laconicsax
(14,860 posts)"Supreme Sacred Congregation of the Roman and Universal Inquisition" sounds just so much more important.
Jim__
(14,083 posts)skepticscott
(13,029 posts)at the bottom, he has been, is, and will remain a representative and enabler of those "tired old men". I'm sure he's ginned up all kinds of fancy rationalizations for it, all boiling down to some form of the "change from within" thingie, but he knows perfectly well that that doesn't work and never will. The Catholic Church will not change significantly on the volition of the church hierarchy. It will only change as its members leave or die, and even then the change will only be a lessening of its influence, not a modification of its doctrines or policies.
