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by Heidi Schlumpf on Nov. 05, 2009
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Printer-friendly versionSend to friendPDF versionStories like these don't help the cause of U.S. women religious currently under investigation by the Vatican for allegedly supporting radical liberal causes:
Sister Donna Quinn, a long-time feminist and social justice activist, has been reprimanded by her order, the Wisconsin-based Sinsinawa Domincans, for escorting patients into a Hinsdale, Illinois clinic that provides abortions, The Chicago Tribune reports.
Online news site ChicagoCatholicNews speculates that the three bishops involved--Cardinal Francis George of Chicago, where Quinn lives; Bishop J. Peter Sartain of Joliet, where the clinic is located; and Bishop Robert Morlino of Madison, Wisconsin, where the order is based--are "monitoring the situation" and expect to talk soon.
I thought this would be an
I thought this would be an important update on Blessed Sacrament Sister Marguerite Bartz, 64, recently slain at home near Gallup. Instead just more stuff . . .
ncronline.org morning
ncronline.org morning briefing is amazing, as is all about this wonderful website.
This morning it shares this sad news:
http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5gwIoE6B_7oh3cf_twEbpZP...
Is the solution to such
Is the solution to such stories not helping the "cause" of women religious to refrain from reporting such stories or is the solution in the hands of women religious by behaving differently so that there are not such stories?
And they wonder why they are
And they wonder why they are being investigated...
Excuse me, but this is about
Excuse me, but this is about ONE person, not 59,000, and she is being "reprimanded by her order," the exact people who should do so.
So don't generalize about an entire group of people because of the actions of one or a few.
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