Sanctions against nuns spark backlash

[anolinde]

Last week an obscure 2006 book on sexual ethics by a nun, a retired Yale Divinity School theologian, rocketed to number 13 on Amazon’s bestseller list

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[paulnolan]

Nuns are awesome and can stay

IDK about that... nearly everyone I know who went to a Catholic school hates and/or is terrified of them. Just as nasty and abusive as the rest of the church, by and large.

Admittedly, these nuns seem okay though. :)

[chasingtides]

I went to Catholic school and my nuns fucking kicked ass.

[youkiddinright]

Where I live, since Nuns are not the ones to run schools (or "schools" for aboriginal people...) they are pretty okay. They mostly teach music, foreign languages, help charities and do stuff like write books about sex. I've heard horror storries from the past (and oh so many of them), but today I only hear good things about nuns from people (those I've known where really sweet)

[lilyginny27]

Our nuns were great at slapping our hands with a ruler, but they were also the first to stick up for any of us; we were like their kids and they treated us as such. Nuns over priests/bishops any day.

[scolaro]

The Vatican’s view is this: If we foster a purer, more orthodox church, it will be naturally more attractive to people...

How's that working out for you?

[sasha_davidovna]

MTE.

[kishmet]

Lmao maybe they should try, you know, asking the people who supposedly want this ~purer, more orthodox~ church

[moonshaz]

[maladaptive]

“The Vatican’s view is this: If we foster a purer, more orthodox church, it will be naturally more attractive to people, and one way to create a purer church is, in part, to enforce these doctrinal rules,’’ said the Rev. James Martin, a Jesuit priest and culture editor of America magazine.

But history has said otherwise. The doctrinal focus drives people away-- ask any lapsed Catholic, and this will probably come up at some point. I know the church is out of touch, but I didn't think it was this delusional.

[flyingwild]

Heh. Seriously.

I wonder what it will take to force them to wake up and join reality with the rest of us...

[nikoel]

As an atheist, I'm cool with them doubling down and alienating more followers. The Catholic Church is *far* too big for its britches, IMO.

[the_archandroid]

Go Nuns!

As a practicing Catholic with major reservations and objections to dogmatic Church doctrine, I think this is awesome. The faster we can leave behind the relics in Rome, the better. I've been to a lot of Catholic educational institutions, and its been my experience that the further a member of the clergy is from Rome, and the higher up they are on the Academic ladder, the more G-d damned sense they make.

[the_laugh]

Yup.

[blinkidybah]

So nuns saving the lives of women = excommunication

But molesting little childen = worthy of protection

Wtf, Vatican, what the fucking fuck.

[carmy_w]

Yep, they're going to have a DAMN good time when they meet their maker at the gates!

"WHAT IN THE NAME OF ME WERE YOU THINKING???? GTFO AND GO TO HELL WHERE YOU BELONG!"

[celtic_thistle]

Precisely. A mess.