The Gender Conflict in Catholic Church Hierarchy

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Mary Kate, what would you know about this matter? Of course any nun, brother, priest, monk, or secular employee can and should be dismissed for taking Catholic money and preaching some other gospel. Just how stupid do you think the Church is supposed to be?
The Church opposes abortion because abortion is murder.
The religious woman who gave up convent life for potemkin careers as social activists, "pastoral associates," or "directors of religious education" knew what they were giving up. The security of the convent was indeed gold-plated at one time. Not good enough for the pant-suited lesbians of the 1970's, though, who envisioned some "bright, bold future" they thought would simply come at their command. They figured that, by 2000 at the latest, they'd be living in a geodesic dome in some futuristic seaside city, where all the men worked and all the women drank chardonnay and pontificated. They'd wear caftans, and snuggle all day long.
Their naivete is pitiful, but naivete can haunt the laity later in life, so why not the religious too? Why do you selectively call for special treatment for some misbehaving religious but not others? Are you not simply engaging in shameless triangulation? Is not your sole agenda the shaming of Christian believers?
The Catholic Church should be left alone, to find its own pathway with the complete and implicit respect of the media. You have no voice, no vote, no veto, and absolutely no credibility whatsoever in this matter.
And any ex-Catholic who posts in that "the church is not worthy" better listen carefully to just how monumentally arrogant he sounds.

Edmund of NJ 3:20PM September 25, 2010

My mother once hoped that I would become a priest. However, much to her eternal sadness I repudiated the Catholic Church by the time I was 14. By the time I was 17 (in 1980) the rift between my mother and I was such that I left my parents home – simply because I refused to attend mass or confession!
I was never molested. I simply felt that the leaders of the Catholic Church were unworthy. The history of the Catholic Church is at odds with the teachings of Jesus. Consider the crusades, the inquisition and the conquest of the new world. The abuse of children is small portion in of long, sordid history of events.
Consider the leadership of the Catholic Church: unmarried men that have no perspective on gender equality, marriage and parenting. They’re too rigid to recognize their church is crumbling around them. They will never adapt!
My only hope is the Catholic Church fades into obscurity quickly!

Scott Richardson of WA 1:48PM April 06, 2010

that the United States Supreme Court has a 5-seat majority (for the duration of their lives) of Catholic Republican men (Scalia, Thomas, Kennedy, Roberts and Alito). Good grief, what a totally ridiculous imbalance of backgrounds on OUR court. This is why you are getting one bad decision, after another, after another. They are a smug little club.
Yeah, the nuns "get it". And no, they have no power in the Church (or the country) , UNTIL, that is, they do what they just did----buck the old bishop boys in public. Long overdue. Now, if we can just get them to start trashing the Court Club in print too.

Muser of NM 12:13AM April 05, 2010

The group that spoke on behalf of the healthcare bill didn't represent the opinions of all American nuns even if it claimed to. The group represents the opinions of largely aged nuns who are still stuck in the 1960s and 1970s.
They represent dying orders, but the young growing orders are largely orthodox in their theology and back the teachings of the Catholic magisterium.
At least they will be gone in a few years. And the Satanic heresy of Modernist liberalism with them.

J.R. of PA 10:22AM April 02, 2010

where would I go? Even with all of its foibles the Catholic Church contains the fullness of the faith - The words and the Eternal Truth of God.

R.L. Schaefer of CA 2:34PM April 01, 2010

What in the world are you talking about -- frigid women???

Joyce Little of AZ 12:45PM April 01, 2010

All of this is a diversion. We need to face something as a society - child sex abuse exists. It is damaging. It is not confined to the Church. Most of it occurs at home. To make this about the Church and not about the larger culture and society means that abuse continues. For right now, it truly is the Church that is safer than some children's homes and schools.
By the way - nuns and women also abuse too.

Mary of NY 8:06PM March 31, 2010

The male dominated leadership of the Roman Catholic Church is the problem. Combine the current narrow-minded patriarchy with the cloak of celibacy and it should surprise no one the church can't manage its pedophile problems. I'd like to know how much the Church has paid out to buy the silence of its victims. Catholics morale is suffering as much as dioceses are going bankrupt. Top management reorganization is in order for the Church, but please don't keep picking leaders from the same ole' boys club.

SuzyQ of LA 6:36PM March 31, 2010

Only frigid or elderly women should be allowed to have contact with church choir boys. Its enforcement would eliminate temptations of the priesthood. Never allowing the fox near the chickens has solved the problem for farmers. The same protection should be given the choir boys.

melvin polatnick of NY 5:55PM March 31, 2010