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Vatican Cracks Down on Uppity US Nuns

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Obdicut (Now with 2% less brain)4/19/2012 5:23:07 am PDT

re: #314 Gus

I don’t know about suicide. I mean, is this really any different than what the Catholic Church has done before?

No, but the world is different now. They are facing a crisis; very few people are entering the priesthood, or the nun orders. Those that are are mostly being drawn from Africa, Asia, and Central and South America, and that is causing yet another schism, since the powers-that-be in the church are not from those areas, in the main. Priests from these areas are usually on board with the social conservatism, but they’re also highly, highly concerned with the social justice, poverty angles that the Church is, with this latest edict, attempting to say are of secondary importance.

I’m not saying the church used to be yay pro-feminist, but that there was, for a long time, at least just a minor spat between the US Catholics and the Catholic Church about how US Catholics weren’t really into the whole social conservatism thing. The Vatican, now, is choosing to make this into a severe conflict, a hierarchical, almost literally patriarchal decision handed down from above.