Have you heard the one about the nun?\u00a0 You know who?\u00a0 Loyal and meek, always obedient.\u00a0 Our Father raised man to be the ultimate sinful being.\u00a0 The woman submitting to his command.\u00a0 How\u00a0 dare a nun (woman) disobey the teachings of her patriarchal faith?\u00a0 Really, it’s just fascinating.<\/p>\n
So the Vatican has decreed that American nuns have lost their way and failed to vilify the people and ideals it finds distasteful.\u00a0 Submit or be excommunicated.\u00a0 And yet these wonderful women have taken their time to hear the Vatican’s message and decide in the most rational matter how to proceed.<\/p>\n
The Leadership Conference of Women Religious was held over the last few days to decide how to reply to the Vatican.\u00a0 The leadership within the Church has concluded that the majority of American nuns aren’t sufficiently Catholic.\u00a0 What it is exactly that they’ve failed to do is vague, but it includes a necessity to condemn homosexuality, birth control and abortion.\u00a0 Catholic decrees that have weakened with the modern age.\u00a0 This is of course the same Church that protects abusive priests, forbids them to marry (unless you’re already a priest, married and Episcopalian), and believes women cannot be priests.\u00a0 However, if you’re a nun, that’s ok. <\/p>\n
Imagine a female pope!<\/p>\n
The Catholic Church may take decades to catch up to the now.\u00a0 So it’s admirable to see these American sisters come together and decide to continue the conversation with the Vatican.\u00a0 There’s no submission and no break with the faith.\u00a0 There’s dialogue.\u00a0 And though I can’t pretend to know what the ultimate end might be, I sincerely hope for the best.\u00a0 For them.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Have you heard the one about the nun?\u00a0 You know who?\u00a0 Loyal and meek, always obedient.\u00a0 Our Father raised man to be the ultimate sinful being.\u00a0 The woman submitting to his command.\u00a0 How\u00a0 dare a nun (woman) disobey the teachings of her patriarchal faith?\u00a0 Really, it’s just fascinating. So the Vatican has decreed that American […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2914","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackglass.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2914","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackglass.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackglass.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackglass.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackglass.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2914"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blackglass.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2914\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackglass.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2914"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackglass.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2914"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackglass.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2914"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}