Time - In 2014 there were just 49,883 religious Catholic sisters in the United States, down 13% percent from 2010 according
to figures from the Center for Applied Research in the Apostolate... That is a 72% decline since 1965.
Because nuns don’t brag about all of the good that they do or hashtag
how awesome they are on Facebook, many people have no idea about the
things they accomplish on a daily basis.
.. The Vatican doesn’t celebrate these women. In fact, it has done the very
opposite. Attacks on American nuns have been happening since 2008, when
the Vatican’s Congregation for Institutes of Consecrated Life and
Societies of Apostolic Life initiated an “Apostolic Visitation,” a
euphemism for investigation, of the nuns.
... Today’s nuns are simply too progressive for the Vatican. The Vatican
chooses not to celebrate nuns and it chooses not to empower them. Pope Francis has been hailed as a progressive icon. Yet on the
subject of women in the Church, he remains loyal to a long-held and
antiquated stance: he doesn’t think women should become priests.
3 comments:
I agree with the Pope... they should become priestesses, instead of priests... :-)
Also, they should consider going on strike... See how long before the Vatican tumbles... Women, be they nuns or just plain mothers, fail to realice sufficiently the value of what they do. We have been brainwashed... but not forever!
This is certainly not something new for the Vatican -- Woytyła also fired Dom Hélder and rewound his many initiatives on behalf of the poor.
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