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[marilyn.monroe]

Detroit — Nuns from Michigan and throughout the nation are assembling in St. Louis this week to prepare their response to a Vatican crackdown that criticized their loyalty and accused them of "radical feminism."
 
This spring, the Vatican ordered a review of the umbrella group of the nation's 55,000 nuns, the Leadership Conference of Women Religious, claiming the sisters had gone rogue, focusing on social justice issues and neglecting church teachings on subjects including contraception, abortion and homosexuality.

Michigan's nuns have a rich history of the type of social activism that some say is under attack by the Vatican.
 
The state is home to about 2,100 nuns, about half at Archdiocese of Detroit parishes. The largest women's religious group is Immaculate Heart of Mary in Monroe with 375.
 
From soup kitchens to literacy centers, their mission is to help the area's poor and unfortunate. They also have been on the front lines of protests against nuclear weapons and the war in Iraq. [and Fermi!]

The nuns won support from female members of the U.S. Senate in July with a resolution calling them "trailblazers" because they "teach our children, care for the sick, feed the hungry, shelter the homeless, lead major institutions, demand corporate policy and fight for policies that promote human dignity."
 
U.S. Sen. Debbie Stabenow, D-Lansing, signed to "show appreciation for nuns' charitable work in our communities" said Cullen Schwarz, a spokesman for the senator.


From The Detroit News: http://www.detroitnews.com/article/20120806/LIFESTYLE04/208060337

This one's for you, Prof! 

[Baggins]

The Catholic church fears strong women...

[Pax]

     In Catholicism priests, bishops, nuns and the laity are duty-bound to obey the lawful dictates of the Church heirarchy and submit themselves and their thoughts to lawful authority.  The whackjobs at IHM (and most other convents) ceased to be real nuns decades ago when the were co-opted by the FemiNazis, EcoNazis, humanists and outright Luciferians who are now driving the remnant of their formerly-glorious orders into oblivion.   To expect the Church to be democratic is to expect what never was and can never be.

[Baggins]

     In Catholicism priests, bishops, nuns and the laity are duty-bound to obey the lawful dictates of the Church heirarchy and submit themselves and their thoughts to lawful authority.  The whackjobs at IHM (and most other convents) ceased to be real nuns decades ago when the were co-opted by the FemiNazis, EcoNazis, humanists and outright Luciferians who are now driving the remnant of their formerly-glorious orders into oblivion.   To expect the Church to be democratic is to expect what never was and can never be.

Your use of Nazi in any discussion astounds and amuses me...

[Pax]

    The acronym NAZI translates into English as the National Socialist Democratic party - the IHM sisters most certainly are a party of feminist/lesbian radicals endorsing all the worst tenets of socialism whilst advocating the primacy of "democracy" in all things, rather like their counterparts in 1930s to 40s Germany.  Catholicism rightfully calls that irredeemable heresy, as do I.

The Seat of Satan

    It is quite apparent who the IHM "sisters" are servants of and it's not the God they would like everyone to believe it is.

[Professor H]

It used to amuse me whenever I got the corporate vote proxy notice for Detroit Edison, and the IHM nuns would always have some sort of request before the shareholders.   

I'm curious - does anyone become a Nun anymore?   Seems like a dying breed or Icon.