The political arm of the American Empire since the
mysterious death of John Paul I has been the Papacy. General Wojtyla (JPII) did whatever it took
to defeat the Commies and ultimately now the Christians, the few real ones left
in that of late money laundering child buggering institution, through his hand
picked Wehrmacht bred successor Benedict the German.
The American He-she Bishops’ new target to get anti-Christ comformity for their new masters, the GOP/Koch brother oligarch types, is the Nuns
The Vatican has
issued a harsh statement claiming that American nuns do not follow their
bishops’ thinking. That statement is profoundly true. Thank God, they don’t.
Nuns have always had a different set of priorities from that of bishops. The
bishops are interested in power. The nuns are interested in the powerless. Nuns
have preserved Gospel values while bishops have been perverting them. The
priests drive their own new cars, while nuns ride the bus (always in pairs).
The priests specialize in arrogance, the nuns in humility….
Now the Vatican
says that nuns are too interested in “the social Gospel” (which is the Gospel),
when they should be more interested in Gospel teachings about abortion and
contraception (which do not exist). Nuns were quick to respond to the AIDS
crisis, and to the spiritual needs of gay people—which earned them an earlier
rebuke from Rome. They were active in the civil rights movement. They ran soup
kitchens….
Last week,
following an assessment by the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, the
Vatican stripped the Leadership Conference of Women Religious, representing
most American nuns, of its powers of self-government, maintaining that its
members have made statements that “disagree with or challenge the bishops, who
are the church’s authentic teachers of faith and morals.” Archbishop Peter
Sartain of Seattle has taken control of the Conference, writing new laws for
it, supplanting its leadership, and banning “political” activity (which is what
Rome calls social work). Women are not capable, in the Vatican’s mind, of
governing others or even themselves. Is it any wonder so many nuns have left
the orders or avoided joining them? Who wants to be bullied?...
It
is typical of the pope’s sense of priorities that, at the very time when he is
quashing an independent spirit in the church’s women, he is negotiating a
welcome back to priests who left the church in protest at the reforms of the
Second Vatican Council. These men, with their own dissident bishop, Marcel
Lefebvre, formed the Society of Saint Pius X—the Pius whose Secretariat of
State had a monsignor (Umberto Benigni) who promoted the Protocols of the Elder
of Zion. Pope Benedict has already lifted the excommunication of four bishops
in the Society of Saint Pius X, including that of Richard Williamson, who is a
holocaust denier. Now a return of the whole body is being negotiated.
None
of the anti-Semitic ties of the Pius X crew matter to Rome, since that crew
holds to the hard line against women priests, gay marriage, and contraception.
They have also retained the Latin Mass, which Rome has been inching back
toward. All these things, you see, are the work solely of male hierarchs,
distrustful of the People of God—who are the church, as defined by the Second
Vatican Council. Those Lefebvre defiers of the Council are all the things the
nuns are not, and all the things Rome wants to restore. The real Gospel must be
quashed in the name of the pseudo-Gospel of papal monarchs. Poor Anne
O’Connor—she thought caring for the poor was what Jesus wanted. She did not
live to see that what Rome wants is all that matters.
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