American nuns face Vatican "visitation"
The NY Times has a fascinating piece this morning about a Vatican probe that aims to determine whether American nuns are “living in fidelity” with the Church and its doctrines.
Church historians said that the Vatican usually ordered an apostolic visitation when a particular institution had gone seriously astray. In the wake of the priest sexual-abuse scandal, the Vatican ordered a visitation of American seminaries. It is now conducting a visitation of the Legionaries of Christ, a men’s order whose founder, the Rev. Marcial Maciel Degollado, sexually abused young seminarians, fathered a child and was accused of financial improprieties. He died in 2008. But the investigation of American nuns surprised many because there was no obvious precipitating cause.Nuns play a growing role in Roman Catholic life here in the North Country, even as their numbers dwindle.
In recent decades, a divide has existed between the Vatican's conservative approach to faith and the attitudes of rank-and-file American Catholics and many of their clergy.
posted by Brian Mann @ 7/02/2009 06:57:00 AM
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The article also contains a link to a paper that examines Reiki with respect to Catholic doctrine.
Quite interesting.
There is always a tension in relligious communities between innovators and traditionalists. Witness St. Paul's dressing down St. Peter. This Vatican inquiry
is but one example.
A well known sceptic recently provoked division within an organizaion of atheists which had asked him to speak. As he is a self described agnostic some of the atheists objected as he isn't of the true non-belief.
If the Catholic church is to survive it must evolve like the rest of human society.
This week's NYTs Book Review cover story about "The Evolution of God" gives some insight to this topic.
Mike from Lyons Falls
I love this concept, George: Orthodox atheism.
-Brian, Saranac Lake
So did you expect anything different? At least they have tried to move past blaming the victims and then the government and then policing and after that the lawyers and now in some places its the insurance people - why not have a different go at blaming women now that they are no longer able to blame the children. The options are narrowing but I still don't think they quite get it yet.
Hopefully when they get through blaming all and everything else they will take a look at how they are going to fix things up even though that is something which keeps slipping below their radar.
This is simply the Roman (and conservative US)old boys' club exerting its power over women who have actually done something useful in America for the past 100 years
I am delighted that Rome is investigating American nuns. It's about time. They refuse to acknowledge the crimes of their own members while pointing the fingers at the clergy and bishops! Sexual abuse by nuns is a reality sisters and nuns want kept under the carpet. No more! They scream for social justice, yet ignore the victims of their members. No more! It's about time the Vatican goes in with a mop.
Pope Paul VI ALEADY addressed this issue on September 14, 1975 when he canonized the first American born Saint and woman religion.........Saint Elizabeth Ann Seton.
They have been celebrating TWO HUDRED YEARS this 2009 of their work in this country.
My money's on the SAINT !!!!!
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