After stinging report, Pope softens tone for U.S. nuns

Another Mary · #1 May 21, '12, 10:33 am

http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/...84H0OW20120518

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By Philip Pullella
VATICAN CITY | Fri May 18, 2012 11:27am EDT

After stinging report, Pope softens tone for U.S. nuns

(Reuters) - Pope Benedict on Friday held out an olive branch to American Roman Catholic nuns, who are reeling from a stinging Vatican report that criticized them as being feminist and politicized.

Sigh.

**adrift** · #2 May 21, '12, 10:39 am

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Originally Posted by Another Mary

http://www.reuters.com/article/comme...84H0OW20120518

Sigh.

your link is for the comment section not the actual story. This link does.

Another Mary · #3 May 21, '12, 10:52 am

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Originally Posted by adrift

your link is for the comment section not the actual story. This link does.

Thanks. They were interesting, too. But I did mean to link to the article.

JackVk · #4 May 21, '12, 11:55 am

Don't read the comments. "The Vatican hates women"..."this is just a smokescreen" blah blah blah. Haters gonna hate. The Leftist press doesn't really care about gender equality. They just want to nab the Bride of Christ for not agreeing with them. They're never happy, even when they hear news you think would please them. Okay, venting rant over.

MidnightSun12 · #5 May 21, '12, 11:59 am

Liberalization and feminism are enormous threats in the church today and this needs to be fought. But we have to be very careful not to attack individual nuns (many of whom are doing a fantastic job) or in anyway marginalize the importance of their role in the church...

I remember reading somewhere that to be a true Catholic we have to be the staunchest conservative we can be in our heads but be the biggest bleading-heart liberals we can be in our hearts. I think the vatican has done this task well here by first releasing a report that effectively outlines valid abuse of the church doctrine but then having the pope show appreciation and respect for the role and the crosses that many nun's have to carry each day! This follow-up by the pope shouldn't be seen as a retraction or contradiction of the previous document but as a completion of a message that the document alone couldn't convey

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YoungTradCath · #6 May 21, '12, 1:51 pm

Typical clueless reporting that equates an ad limina speech with a commanding juridical document.

This speech does not cancel out the prior document, nor does it soften it in any way.