Pope to nuns: Enough of the Social Justice malarky; more Homophobia and Misogyny please!

[Captain Con O'Sullivan]

The Mental Mafia. Even the Cosa Nostra have a higher ethical code than that bunch of elderly male basket cases.

The RCC must be the world's longest running lunatic asylum run entirely by the inmates. It went mad around the 1st century and got madder as it expanded. No wonder it became a home for those with a psychological toxin in their minds.

Even the lowest of the low in prison know how to treat child abusers and their pals and in this are entirely more sensible than the majority of people outside jail.

I would give quite a bit to see forward 500 or a 1000 years and to see the history books or hologrammic documentaries detailing the Decline and Fall of the Metaphysical Roman Empire.

With input from psychologists I have the strangest feeling that the summary will be that catholic dogma on women, celibacy, and the grooming of arrested adolescents programmed to think that they had the will of god on their twisted psychological sides actually created monsters.

Either way Ireland may well be a social case history in that curriculum of the future. How generations of future Irish people are going to be horrified at the supine, crawling, indocrinated cowardice of the nation in the face of bent Ju-Ju Men hardly bears thinking about.

Some generations of the mentally ill but joyfully free in Irish social affairs are going to be hard to explain before the future court of analytical social history.

There will be only one explanation and sadly it is the same as the explanation for the behaviour of the German people in the 1930s.

The Second Roman Reich- odd that some historians tell us that the Roman Empire never reached Ireland. Yes it bloody well did and it made itself well at home for over a thousand years.

With a bit of luck I'll be watching it fall apart over the next few years. 'Good man yourself, Seanie'. Popcorn, please.

[Andrew49]

Signs that the nuns are beginning to fight back: LINK

In their response on Friday, announced after three days of discussion and prayer in Washington, D.C., the conference board called the punishment “disproportionate” and said it “could compromise their ability to fulfil their mission.” The nuns said the Vatican’s report has “caused scandal and pain throughout the church community and created greater polarization.” Tensions between U.S. nuns and church authorities, both in Rome and in the United States, have been simmering for decades as nuns have taken an increasingly independent and outspoken role in politics and social outreach.

The nuns have drawn strong public support in the United States since the Vatican moved to rein them in. In the past few weeks Catholics have organized vigils outside churches from Anchorage, Alaska, to Lady Lake, Florida, and in major cities including Boston, Chicago, Dallas and Los Angeles, as well as outside the offices of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops in Washington, D.C.

Knots of demonstrators – sometimes a handful, sometimes several dozen – come to pray, sing and give thanks for nuns. More than 50,000 have signed an online petition asking the Vatican to withdraw its order.

[Andrew49]

A high-ranking Holy See official who tried to resolve tense relations between the Vatican and U.S nuns was transferred Thursday to a Midwestern archdiocese of fewer than 230,000 parishioners.

The newly appointed Indianapolis Archbishop Joseph Tobin said he didn't know if the move was related to his efforts to reconcile the heads of the Roman Catholic Church with nuns who some theological conservatives complained had become too secular and political.

"No one told me it was tied to the investigation,"

Tobin, a 60-year-old American Redemptorist priest, said at a news conference in Indianapolis.

The results of the investigation by Tobin's agency have not been made public. But following the other probe, the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith ordered a full-scale overhaul of the National Conference of Women Religious, which represents about 80 percent of U.S. nuns, accusing it of taking positions that undermine Catholic teaching and promote radical feminist themes incompatible with the faith. LINK