The Nuns Fire Back
While the US media report on what the Vatican claims, the BBC thought to ask the those accused for a response: Leader of ‘radical’ US nuns rejects Vatican criticism
The leader of a group of US nuns the Vatican accuses of flouting Church teaching has rejected the claims.
“I’ve no idea what they’re talking about,” Sister Simone Campbell, head of Network, a Catholic social justice lobby, told the BBC.
“Our role is to live the gospel with those who live on the margins of society. That’s all we do.”
You should watch the video of the interview. At one point Sister Campbell expresses her opinion that the Bishops and Vatican “should grow up”. She backtracked immediately, but that is really her feeling about the matter – that the Catholic ‘good ol’ boy network’ doesn’t know how to talk to women, and hasn’t advanced beyond the ‘girls have cooties’ stage of elementary school.
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I’ve always felt that the church is frightened of women
That has to be a major part of it, Jams. They don’t seem to be able to talk to or about women, of the issues of women. Perhaps they were traumatized by nuns in elementary school and can’t get beyond it.