{"id":8248,"date":"2012-04-20T15:45:40","date_gmt":"2012-04-20T19:45:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sidebarforplaintiffs.naomifein.net\/?p=8248"},"modified":"2012-04-20T15:45:40","modified_gmt":"2012-04-20T19:45:40","slug":"the-global-war-against-women-we-have-some-champions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sidebarforplaintiffs.naomifein.net\/?p=8248","title":{"rendered":"The Global War Against Women: We have some champions"},"content":{"rendered":"

From yesterday’s New York Times<\/em>, via reporter Laurie Goodstein:<\/p>\n

Vatican Reprimands a Group of U.S Nuns and Plans Changes<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

The Vatican has appointed an American bishop to rein in the largest and most influential group of Catholic nuns in the United States, saying that an investigation found that the group had “serious doctrinal problems.”<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

The Vatican’s assessment, issued on Wednesday, said that members of the group<\/strong>, the Leadership Conference of Women Religious, had challenged church teaching on homosexuality and the male-only priesthood, and promoted “radical feminist themes incompatible with the Catholic faith.”<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

The sisters were also reprimanded<\/strong> for making public statements that “disagree with or challenge the bishops, who are the church’s authentic teachers of faith and morals.”<\/strong> During the debate over the health care overhaul in 2010, American bishops came out in opposition to the health plan, but dozens of sisters, many of whom belong to the Leadership Conference, signed a statement supporting it \u2014 support that provided crucial cover for the Obama administration in the battle over health care.<\/em><\/p>\n

…<\/em><\/p>\n

“I’m stunned,” said Sister Simone Campbell, executive director of Network, a Catholic social justice lobby founded by sisters. Her group was also cited in the Vatican document<\/strong>, along with the Leadership Conference, for focusing its work too much on poverty and economic injustice,<\/strong> while keeping “silent” on abortion and same-sex marriage.<\/em><\/p>\n

“I would imagine that it was our health care letter that made them mad,” Sister Campbell said. “We haven’t violated any teaching, we have just been raising questions and interpreting politics.”<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

You go, sisters!<\/p>\n

Catholic women, be warned.\u00a0I’ve bolded the phrases that make me furious, that demonstrate with appalling arrogance, clarity and regression how this male-dominated religion looks down upon women.<\/p>\n

It’s time to leave the Church.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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