Vatican To Nuns: Hate On Gays, Please

Alexander Abad-Santos:

So far, the LCWR hasn't responded to the reprimand. But, The New York Times' Laurie Goodstein spoke to Sister Simone Campbell, an executive director of a social justice lobby called Network, which was also cited by the Vatican for (prepare yourself; this sounds kind of puzzling), "focusing its work too much on poverty and economic injustice, while keeping 'silent' on abortion and same-sex marriage."  “I would imagine that it was our health care letter that made them mad,” Sister Campbell told Goodstein, in reference to a letter her organization and the LCWR signed in support of Obama's 2010 health care overhaul . “We haven’t violated any teaching, we have just been raising questions and interpreting politics.”

The Catholic hierarchy works hard to stay ahead of the Republican Party in the foolhardy dogmatism category.  I don't understand it.  They don't seem like they'll be happy until they've driven out everyone but the overzealous homophobic closet cases.  I guess it's good they didn't put Cardinal Law in charge of keeping the crazy nuns in line.  He's handled so many other troublemakers oh so successfully.