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Jul 12

ROCK STAR NUNS!

Vatican Harangue Makes Stars of ‘Nuns on the Bus’

By Samantha Kimmey

WASHINGTON (WOMENSENEWS)—Nuns here are being treated like rock stars after the vast majority received a scolding from Pope Benedict XVI.

As the crowd in front of the United Methodist building in Washington, D.C., saw the bus coming down the street, loudspeakers began to play “Eye of the Tiger,” the theme song from the movie “Rocky III.”

The crowd clapped to the beat, cheered and waved posters.

“Sisterhood Is Power,” read one sign…Read more

May 15

Vatican Attack on Nuns Reopens My Brother’s Wounds

By Caryl Rivers

WeNews commentator

Monday, May 14, 2012

The notion that the Vatican could attack today’s nuns, who minister to the sick and poor around the world and who defend social justice when it needs to be defended, is a shame. The nuns apparently do not sufficiently ride the Vatican’s hobbyhorses of anti-gay bias and opposition to choice. Who are these old men to admonish the best the church has to offer? It is indeed a shame, and a sin.

I know well the sins of the church. My brother was sexually molested in a Christian Brothers’ school in Washington, D.C., and for years told no one. He was only one of many boys molested in that school by one of the brothers… (Read more)