The Vatican Should Exalt Catholic Nuns, Not Upbraid Them

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YET ANOTHER MUDDLED MISSIVE FROM MIXED-UP MILLIGAN...

Susie, apparently you believe all religions are equal. However, if that were true, it would mean that God is either a relativist or merely a mythical perception.

There is only one God - one eternal source of Truth, Justice, Love and Morality. If God is subjective, He is “progressive”, that His Truth is subject to personal opinion, changing cultural mores, or "evolving" then the logical conclusion is that God is “unknowable” and therefore meaningless -simply a reflection of our individual thoughts and morals.

That said, I just wish all the “nominal, cafeteria Catholics" who support gay marriage, abortion and Obama would just “cut lose” and become protestants - “protester” is what "protestant" means. This 52% of American Catholics, who aren't orthodox, should pick one of the several hundred "protestant" denominations (it's hard to keep track of the numbers - they just keep getting different perceptions of God and dividing like amoeba. If all those choices don't suit them because of their preacher's personality, music selection, dogma isn't hip or trendy enough, they aren't pro-choice or perhaps the denomination has a theological thought beyond, "I have my own personal God and he lives in my heart". Then perhaps they should start another denomination based on whatever fantasy they chose to hold, or maybe adopt one of the Eastern religions. Whatever turns you on. Just go away...please , feel free to slip into the embrace of your personal god.

Orthodox Catholicism is something more than a "happy-fest hootenanny" - a superficial "God snack" is not what it's about. Yup, it takes some self discipline and heavy lifting, and it's not always warm, fuzzy and simplistic. But, understanding that there is Perfect Objective Truth is darn hard for the human ego. The idea of “absolutes”, especially in a world wedded to subjectivity and relativism, is nearly impossible to accept.

So, I encourage all apostates and heretics - including priests and nuns - to formally leave the Church. The “relativist road of personal perception” is wide and beckoning. Take it and find a God molded after, and conforming to, your image and ideas of Him.

Alternatively, I pray that pseudo-catholics properly catechize themselves under the guidance of an “orthodox” Priest so that you may understand the "fullness of the faith" . Further, I suggest reading, "Triumph: The Power and the Glory of the Catholic Church, by Crocker. It is a accurate history of the Church and therefore of Western Civilization - warts and all.

Finally, I remind all what Christ said after Peter correctly identified Jesus as the Son of the living God, "...thou art Peter, and upon this rock I will build my church and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it. And, I will give thee the keys to the kingdom of heaven; and whatever you shall bind on earth shall be bound in heaven, and whatever you loose on earth shall be loosed in heaven."

R.L. Schaefer of CA 12:13PM April 26, 2012

What so many non-Catholic do not understand as well as so many that call themselves Catholic but only practice to be a Catholic, at Baptisms, Marriages, and Funerals, is the Catholic Church,

is based on the Laws of the Church and not on

public opinion, or even majority rules.

Faithful Members of the Catholic Church follow ALL

the rules of the Church, not just the ones they choose.

Christ did not operate a democracy,and GOD did not either, The Ten Commandments, was not a pick and choose, like a cafeteria.

Vincent Lawrence of MN 11:39AM April 26, 2012

You are absolutely correct. With all the outrage and frustration I've had to swallow coming from my beloved Church, this slapdown of the hard-working, underappreciated sisters feel like the last straw.

What are they thinking?!

Michie of PA 10:56AM April 26, 2012

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Susan Milligan

Susan Milligan

Susan Milligan is a political and foreign affairs writer and contributed to a biography of the late Sen. Edward M. Kennedy, "Last Lion: The Fall and Rise of Ted Kennedy." Follow her on Twitter @MilliganSusan.

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