Pope Ratz attacks nuns for not being sufficiently anti-gay, anti-abortion and anti-women's equality

[marmar]

from the Des Moines Register:



Now the pope is beating up on nuns in the United States! And I think Rick Santorum started this.

The Catholic church has launched disciplinary action against the Leadership Conference of Women Religious, which represents about 80 percent of the 57,000 U.S. nuns.

The church avers the nuns have not been loud enough in speaking out against gay marriage, abortion and women’s ordination. The Vatican’s Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith claims the nuns are pushing “radical feminist themes incompatible with the Catholic faith.”

This comes following the contraception controversy. The Affordable Healthcare Act and Obama administration required businesses and organizations offering health insurance to include coverage for contraception for women. That produced claims of discrimination against women or of interference by the federal government in the religious freedom of religious groups opposing contraception and abortion. ..................(more)

The complete piece is at: http://www.desmoinesregister.com/article/20120425/OPINION/304250046/0/OPINION/?odyssey=nav%7Chead

[Scuba]

1. What? He forgot not Nazi enough?

[madrchsod]

2. the Vatican is completely out of touch with reality.....

[customerserviceguy]

3. I'm going to have to

dedicate one really expensive bottle of wine in my cellar to be uncorked the day the Pope Ratzo checks out.

Just when I think I've gotten over caring about what the RCC does, something like this comes along.

[eridani]

4. The nuns are probably part of teh 2% of American women--

--that have never used contraception. You'd think that would be good enough for Benny the Rat.