News not about Boston:
Pope Francis has reaffirmed the reprimand of American nuns issued by his predecessor, Pope Benedict XVI, and endorsed the plan to have three bishops supervise an overhaul of the nation's largest umbrella group of American nuns.Look, I don't care how plain Francis's vestments are or how many prisoners' feet he washes. The chief honchos of an ideologically rigid church chose him to be the church's leader. They didn't do that in the belief that he would alter any of the ideology -- they did so in the belief that he wouldn't. He isn't altering it. He won't. End of story.
The announcement from the Vatican on Monday dashed the hopes of Catholic sisters and their supporters, who had hoped that the new pope might not want to meddle with women's religious communities....
The Vatican last year said in its doctrinal assessment that the nuns' group was tinged with feminist influences, focused too much on ending social and economic injustice and not enough on stopping abortion, and permitted speakers at its meetings who questioned church doctrine....
Like the US, the Catholic Church is still fighting against the DFH's of the 1060's.
ReplyDeleteThe only difference was, the American DFH's got laid more - or, at least, so we're led to believe.
But, of course, most of the American DFH's weren't focusing their sexual energies on pre and pubescent boys, so WTF knows...