Secular Café: How the RCC is getting it wrong

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How the RCC is getting it wrong May 21st 2012, 17:57 Frankly, I hope they go on getting it wrong. That way they'll go on alienating Catholics. http://www.pennlive.com/editorials/i...e_is_stil.html Quote: There is a lesson here that seems to be missed in the Catholic Church's male culture and by the bishops formed in it. Some of the least insightful bishops reprimanded Sister Carol Keehan for standing with and protecting pregnant women whose lives were threatened by a developing fetus. These bishops were theologically unsophisticated, but even worse was their naivete in thinking that they could push around Catholic sisters and child-bearing women with their reprimands and threats to withdraw Catholic status from hospitals if abortion is permitted when a fetus puts the mother's life in danger. The level of naivete demonstrated by those bishops could come only from celibate men who have had no close experience with women. Catholic laypersons who thought that such foolishness would not be repeated were quickly disappointed. Some even more naive bishops are now trying to bully the entire community of American sisters (Leadership Conference of Women Religious)... ...According to unofficial reports coming from inside the Vatican, Cardinal Law is joined in his crackdown by Cardinal Raymond Burke, the former Archbishop of St. Louis. Archbishop Burke, too, was pressured to leave his diocese and given a new post inside the Vatican... ...How could two ultraconservative cardinals, with legacies of tragic mistakes, now be permitted to turn their flawed judgments against hardworking sisters throughout the U.S.? Fellow American bishops followed up the cardinals' criticisms of nuns with their own criticism and inquiry into Girl Scouts. The more bishops and cardinals say about female issues and sexuality, the stronger a case is made for church silence. The only alternative would be an open dialogue with women. Communities of Sisters and Girl Scout troops might have weaknesses and need reforms, but such reforms cannot be carried out by old men. The Vatican had better get women into positions of power and authority if it wants to address, in a meaningful way, problems in congregations of sisters and Girl Scout troops.

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