UNITED STATES
Philadelphia Inquirer
Monica Yant Kinney, Inquirer Columnist
Last week, Pope Benedict XVI celebrated his 85th birthday by issuing a rebuke of an unlikely foe:
Nuns.
Following a bizarre three-year inquisition of American sisters’ “quality of life,” the Vatican slammed nuns for devoting their lives to educating the poor, treating the sick, and feeding the ravenous. Women religious are “charitable,” but all this social-justice work has fostered a “radical feminism” the pope wants to tamp out, ASAP.
The Vatican says the sisters sinned by supporting President Obama’s health-care plan and helping homosexuals. But nuns are also guilty of staying too “silent” on issues like abortion.
You can read the eight-page “doctrinal assessment” (http://bit.ly/JamGHa), but I’ll summarize the conclusion: Nuns need to remember their place and obey the men who run the church.
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