Priests Take a Stand for Nuns; Criticize Cardinal Müller
A group of U.S. priests has sent a letter to Pope Francis criticizing Cardinal Gerhard…
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Can You Be Liberal and Catholic?
And if you are, can you get some media love?
Read MoreCatholic Nuns Back Obamacare Contraception Access
“It isn’t faith and freedom when reproductive autonomy isn’t extended by the Catholic Church to women.”
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What The Church Needs More Than a ‘Good Pope’
As many have noted, Pope Francis’s latest interview offers a refreshing departure from his predecessors despite, among other things, the pope’s dubious perspective on women. But rather than more emphasis on Good Pope Francis, there’s another upside to wish for.
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Pope Francis and the American Sisters
I think it is time for Catholics to grow up and realize that royalty does not become us. The Church is a service organization whose primary stakeholders are people who are poor. Their needs, and not the whims of pampered prelates, are the priority. Nothing less is acceptable. Raise the bar for heaven’s sake.
Read MoreDoes Hormonal Birth Control Turn Chimps Gay?
This is a confusing video.
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What Should the Vatican Say to the (Last Generation of) Nuns?
It’s easy to understand the Vatican’s consternation when faced with sisters radical enough to think their own thoughts and write them down. Nuns aren’t trained to be troublemakers.
Read MoreCatholic Sex Teaching is No Laughing Matter
Bishops are not only concerned with nuns and girl scouts.
Read MoreOnly 5 Million “Real” Catholics in the U.S.?
Perhaps the Vatican’s hard-line tactics are an intentional purge.
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Rome vs. the Sisters
Throughout the history of the Church, bishops and popes have struggled mightily to keep committed celibate Catholic women under control. Already in the early Christian centuries male Church leaders forced virgins to describe themselves as “brides of Christ” rather than use the male martial imagery they had come to use during the Roman persecutions. The early equality between male and female desert monastics was likewise undercut when eighth century bishops began taking control of women’s monasteries and ordained monks to the priesthood for the first time (but not nuns, of course). And as, throughout the following centuries, groups of dedicated Christian women came together—canonesses, Beguines, beatas, recluses—popes, bishops, and male theologians went to great lengths to rein them in.
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