UNITED STATES
National Catholic Reporter
by Thomas C. Fox on Apr. 21, 2012 NCR Today
The Los Angeles Times has chimed in, adding another incredulous voice to many more certain to come, as reasonable observers consider the Vatican’s destructive attack on U.S. women religious last week.
Columnist Steve Lopez writes that when he first heard of the Vatican doctrinal assessment of the Leadership Conference of Women Religious, the umbrella group of 80 percent of U.S. women religious now under attack by Rome, he thought it was some kind of satire, “a parody of the out-of-touch Vatican patriarchy.”
No, Steve, the men in Rome seem to think that without ever entering into serious conversation with LCWR they can order these women into some kind of straight jacket Vatican think. Get on the band wagon, they command the women. Condemn same sex liaisons; stand up for our failed anti-abortion political campaign; step away from the programs which have an actual track record of reducing abortions while assisting women raise children.
So very strange. The men in gowns don’t speak to the women in pants.
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