Sister Teresa Forcades: Europe's most radical nun

[muriel_volestrangler]

A Spanish nun has become one of Europe's most influential left-wing public intellectuals. This year, thousands have joined her anti-capitalist movement, which campaigns for Catalan independence, the reversal of public spending cuts and nationalisation of banks and energy companies.
...
Followers of her movement, Proces Constituent, which has signed up around 50,000 Catalans this year, are mainly non-believing leftists. She won't run for office, and says she won't create a political party, but she's undeniably a political figure on a mission - to tear down international capitalism, and change the map of Spain.
...
Sister Teresa believes the Roman Catholic church should be thoroughly modernised for the 21st Century. She thinks women priests should be welcomed, and that gay people should be allowed to serve openly in the church. Pope Francis should be judged, she thinks, on how the Women Religious - which includes the majority of nuns in the United States - are treated by the Vatican.
...
An individual's right to control their own body, including a woman's right to decide over abortion

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-24079227

Plus nationalisation of the banks and energy companies, and democratic control of the media and internet.

[Benton D Struckcheon]

1. They'll assign her to Partenia

See here: http://www.partenia.org/english/partenia_eng.htm

Radical archbishop Jacques Gaillot was booted from his position in Paris and was named head of this archdiocese, which is in north Africa, and has in the physical world zero parishioners. So he set up an Internet site, and made it so that everyone could be a parishioner.
Then again, maybe they'll just boot her out altogether.

[rug]

2. Wow, I never heard of her or Proces Constituent.

http://www.procesconstituent.cat/

Thanks for the info.

[gopiscrap]

3. Good for her I love it!

I think the RC church does need to modernize and it would help to let them have woman priests and get rid of priestly celibacy

[cbayer]

4. Hooray for her! I hope she keeps speaking up and speaking up loudly.