Comments on: The ‘Crusade’ Against Women

By: Bryan

Bryan — Sat, 21 Apr 2012 20:05:56 +0000

Down here, Badtux, they are in the supervisory roles in local Catholic schools and hospitals, as they are ‘aging out’ with few young women entering convents. The Vatican seems to be ensuring that the trend will continue.

The numbers are declining, Jill, and every stupid move they make just speeds up the process.

By: cookie jill

cookie jill — Sat, 21 Apr 2012 15:41:44 +0000

It’s really tough being female these days. The blood pressure keeps rising after listening story after story of how we are stupid, vapid, “uppity”, “too indepenent”, etc. I can’t for the life of me understand how ANY woman could be a Republican or Catholic these days.

Grrrrr.

By: Badtux

Badtux — Sat, 21 Apr 2012 03:46:00 +0000

Bryan, due to the decline in the Catholic orders, there are relatively few nuns teaching in Catholic schools or nursing in Catholic hospitals nowadays. They’ve left those positions to be filled by secular workers. They’re more likely to be working as social workers for Catholic Charities or the state, where they feel they best fulfill their Christian duty to serve the poor. And the perfumed princes in the Vatican could care less about the poor, so …

– Badtux the Once-Catholic Penguin

By: Bryan

Bryan — Sat, 21 Apr 2012 03:31:44 +0000

This is beyond stupid. Women are the heart and soul of every religion. It is the women who usually introduce children into religion, and they are the workforce that keeps local congregations alive and active. Attacking women is both arrogant and ignorant.

We are watching institutional ‘suicide’ in action. What is the Catholic Church going to do if the groups they are attacking say “Fine, we’ll become Episcopalians, if you don’t want us” ? Where are they going to get the teachers for their schools and nurses for their hospitals, two of their biggest profit centers?

By: Suzan

Suzan — Fri, 20 Apr 2012 16:24:48 +0000

And as usual, they’re starting with the vulnerable first.

They think.

Go nuns!

By: Steve Bates

Steve Bates — Fri, 20 Apr 2012 15:50:52 +0000

It is my impression… and, I admit, my sincere hope… that the Catholic Church is an entity whose days of power in the larger world are mostly behind it. I used to try to be understanding, but the Church has, with malice aforethought, rendered that impossible… and I’m not even going to try anymore. Let Rat Zinger zing his rats; I just don’t care.

If Obama has a second term, he’d damned well better not consider appointing another Catholic to the Supreme Court. I can’t help thinking about an old laxative commercial about prunes: “Are two too few? Are six too many?”