UNITED STATES
National Post (Canada)
Charles Lewis Jun 11, 2012
I spent all of last week looking into a battle that has broken out between American nuns and the Vatican. That story appeared in Saturday’s National Post.
Most of the American press has played this as an outright attack on the religious sisters. My suspicion is those in the secular press coming to the aid of the sisters are happy to take any opportunity to make the men of the Vatican look like women-hating ogres. These are not people who love or even like the Catholic Church so when they see an opening they cannot help but jump right in. They do not love the nuns but they do dislike the Church.
That is not to say that the nuns do not have some strong points in this spat but it is simply unfair to think the Vatican may not have a few good points of its own. One nun I spoke to accused me of being biased and a bit slow because I dared to ask questions about some of her assumptions — a funny habit that reporters have. Her message was simple: you can mess with the Vatican but do not dare to question the nuns.
That did not stop me from quoting her but she is definitely off my Christmas card list.
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