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First the nuns, now the Girl-Scouts. Why? They do not follow the Catholic doctrine on sex, abortions and contraception
MARIA TERESA PONTARA PEDERIVA
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Sister Viviana Ballarin had reiterated only a week ago how women are still an unresolved issue in the Church. In an interview with the daily Il Messaggero , the president of the USMI (Union of Major Superiors of Italy leading over 70.000 religious women in the country) declared: “The so called feminine genius is a gift for society and the Church, but very often people fear what is different, because for many it represents not so much a source of wealth but actually a threat and I believe that this is the main reason why in the Church often confrontation with what is considered different is avoided”. Don Armando Matteo entitled his last book “La fuga delle quarantenni” -Rubettino publishing 2012- (“ The flight of 40 year old women”) and perhaps in a few years women in the Church, and not only those ordained as nuns, might become a rarity.
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