Go here to read the story. As always, the Pope has all the diplomacy of a bull in a china shop. He has also either forgotten or never learned one of the basic rules of leadership: praise publicly; critique privately.
Sisters, Please Put Down Those Rulers!
- Donald R. McClarey
Donald R. McClarey
Cradle Catholic. Active in the pro-life movement since 1973. Father of three, one in Heaven, and happily married for 43 years. Small town lawyer and amateur historian. Former president of the board of directors of the local crisis pregnancy center for a decade.
He should talk.
What? No mirrors at the Vatican?
The way he treats religious, especially women, is absolutely scandalous, in the worst possible meaning of the word. I pray daily that Our Lady protect them from this evil man.
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Maybe they’d smile more if they had a shepherd who:
Addressed the Rupnik issue
Didn’t seem get his thinking on monasteries from Henry VIII
Had respect for the concept of contemplative orders
Of course, we should be joyful both in and out of season, but sometimes it’s darn hard!!
Slowly and surely loosing the plot.
Says a man whose “vinegar” could marinate a side of beef!
I had happy nuns and few grumpy nuns (San Jose Dominicans), but most of the grumpier ones were at least good teachers. I laugh at one who wasn’t, because decades later I taught the same subject at the same school. Weird sort of payback, eh?
Because of the nuns, I did not end up in prison, in an insane asylum, or dead. They were living saints, and precisely what I and my fellow urchin reprobates needed. Deo Gratias for Mother Xavier, Mother Cabrini, Sister Mary Margaret, Sister Annette, Sister Domitillla, and Sister Mary Fidelis. And I am absolutely certain when they see me in purgatory they are going to say to Jesus, Bring him home, there is good in the boy. Guy, Texas
“What a card, that Frank..”