Clapping for Sister Carol

Sister Carol Keehan is everything BUT counter-cultural....as were most of those in the audience applauding her ...pro-choice, pro-Obama-care and most appreciative of the government dole!! Progressive Socialists all! And the un-born be damned!! It will be fine until, to quote the truly counter-cultural Margaret Thatcher, "they run out of other peoples' money"! ps...and that, ladies and gentlemen,we have already accomplished!

It's no surprise that Sr. Carol received sustained applause from those at NCR, the home of dissent. Sr. Had just flatly contradicted the bishops without any effort to consult them first, and with no warning. She and the other dissenters had spoken as if they were the authentic voice of the Church, leading people to think the Church supported the bill. That was deceitful on their part, but a tactic greatly admired and often used by the dissenters in an attempt to give weight to their statements. They should at least have the honesty to say they are not the authorized representatives of the Church, when they differ with the official Church as represented by the bishops. That plus the fact that they allowed themselves to be skillfully manipulated by the tacticians in the Obama administration does not speak well for them. No where except in the home of dissent would they receive such enthusiastic applause.

Agree. More applause. And part of it is because she and her sisters refused to be cowed by the present obnoxiously patriarchal bishops who assume they can speak for all US Catholics.

The only people Clapping for Sister Carol should be her handlers in the Democratic Party, for she has given them the appearence of Catholic support to a bill that ensured abortion in legislation and set the foundation for a
gradual marginalization of Catholic healthcare in a national system run by the government.
For a picture of where she will go from here take note of the new signals from Speaker Pelosi on immigration reform. Expect Sister Carol to
now turn her attention to carring out this directive. In Fact we should simply replace Bishops and their authority, with liberal "Catholic" politicians since so many in the Church take their marching orders from secular leaders. Look at ACORN and all the funds that have blessed that noble institution, now think CATHORN. Only Sister Carol would qualify as its first president.

Thank you, Sister, for your "counter-cultural combination of a wealth of knowledge and experience and the unique authenticity of one who has chosen poverty." And you are not alone. There are countless American women religious just like you, who may never be invited to the White House, who serve daily in relative obscurity, and remain an inspiration to us all.

Memo to Rode and Levada:
WALK A MILE in this woman's shoes for just one day before you retire.

So do I, Michael, so do I.

She did get a great deal of public praise from Planned Parenthood for her work "to increase the availability and funding of 'reproductive technology.'" Thank you sister--from all the dead human beings in the dumpsters behind abortion clinics!

She believes and obviously the writer of this article believes she has done a good thing but if the President fails to keep his promise that the government's healthcare program will not fund abortions and that freedom of conscience will be respected it might well be that she has made a faustian deal and has been a pawn whose niavete has allowed the slaughter of the innocents to escalate.
The applause of the world means little The crowds shouted Hosanna one week and "We want Barabbas the next" Human popularity is not an infallible guide to the morality of our actions.

Sister Carol is a woman if courage We musgt follow.

People applauded a woman who betrayed the Church by supporting a monumentally anti-social-justice piece of legislation. And this is a good thing? How sad. When your tax dollars start killing the unborn, when health care costs continue to rise, when the elderly can't get care because doctors won't take Medicare's low-balling anymore, will the applause finally stop?

This so called Catholic conference only included those with positive feelings toward NCR and her editors with a few token Republicans. In my circle of friends, Sister Carol supported a health care program that directly supports the taking of innoncet human life and she, like those who co-signed that pro-abortion petition, are the leaders of a new schism within the American Church. So it comes to no surprise that when the poster child of this new Protestant movement would walk into a room filled with like minded schismatics, they would rise to their feet in admiration for Martin Luther's successor.

You all belong to each other. You don't represent me and you don't represent the church that I belong.

As audience you may have stopped applauding. Many of us out here, without the need assume that role, are still applauding.

Thank you Sister Carol,

I say this with all my heart, I am one of the 50 million without private healthcare insurance and I am a faithful Catholic. It is not only the Bishops who are allowed to speak as the Church, and Sister Carol is one of the Genuine leaders, who the bishops should be listening to, she leads an organization which is dedicated to caring for all.

I lost my health care insurance in 2007 due to a premium jump which forced me to drop my insurance due to being unable to pay the $500.00 dollar a month premium, which jumped from $300.00 to $500.00 dollars.

I was forced to apply for Medicaid here in North Carolina, and SSI due to multiple medical conditions which left untreated, would have quickly caused my death. I had to fight a 3 year legal battle with the Federal Government to get my SSI and at the end of 2009, I was finally notified that I had been approved.

Sister Carol cares about people like me and it is becoming clear to me that the Bishops as a group DO NOT care about people like me, all they care about is the abortion issue.