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meow2u3

(24,745 posts)
Wed May 23, 2012, 07:23 PM May 2012

Following the money

http://ncronline.org/blogs/just-catholic/following-money

You can be sure whenever they say it's not about the money, it's about the money. Those pesky LCWR types always seem to want to give it away. To the poor. Whatever will they think of next?

That's what the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith said, isn't it? The women religious of the United States were spending too much time on social issues and not enough on defending doctrine. Just about every reliable media outlet picked it up, reporting that the US Catholic bishops, who have no moral credibility (and therefore no moral authority), can't get their own job done and so are taking the sisters into receivership.

Somehow, their latest initiative is supposed to enhance the teaching of Catholic doctrine throughout the country and the world.

Hello? As head-shaking spreads around the globe, the bishops seem more and more like the schoolyard thugs who own the ball and name the game. But no one wants to play with them anymore, so they retreat, sulk and come up with yet another strategy: Control the nuns and thereby control their money.

News flash: The world is onto you, guys.

So what's at stake? Well, there's big money out there. Yes, the dioceses have huge holdings. But they have equally huge legal bills with more to come as the courts increasingly find bishops negligent in oversight. Many women's institutes have substantial cash, equities and property in their own names, and their members hold directorships in multiple institutions, which in turn have giant assets.

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The more information coming out about the Vatican crackdown on the American nuns, the more it seems as if Cardinals Law and Levada have initiated a cross between a partisan witch hunt and an old-fashioned extortion attempt. Is it turning out that the real reason for this "doctrinal assessment" and accusations of "radical feminist themes" are their attempt to expropriate the money and property of the sisters?

http://www.democraticunderground.com/121828360

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/mary-c-johnson/vatican-lays-a-cunning-trap-for-american-nuns_b_1527369.html?ref=religion
Today, the Vatican tells the women of the LCWR, "Submit to our oversight and control of your every action for the next five years." The Vatican's official "or else" clause remains unstated but clear to all involved. "Submit to our authority, or call yourselves Catholic no longer."

The Vatican has cited the LCWR, which represents more than 80 percent of America's Catholic sisters, for what they call "policies of corporate dissent" on issues including the Church's teaching on human sexuality and women's ordination, and for "radical feminism." The Vatican has appointed Seattle archbishop Peter Sartain to revise LCWR's statutes and create new LCWR programs designed to seep sisters in Catholic dogma. Sartain has veto power over speakers at LCWR assemblies and will review LCWR's affiliations. In short, the Vatican has grounded the sisters and Sartain is the official babysitter.


The pattern of intimidation, retaliation, subjugation, and extortion of women who ARE doing God's will by men who SHOULD be doing God's will, but chose to be corrupted by greed and power is coming to the surface
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Following the money (Original Post) meow2u3 May 2012 OP
It has been suggested that the American cardinals are engaging cbayer May 2012 #1

cbayer

(146,218 posts)
1. It has been suggested that the American cardinals are engaging
Wed May 23, 2012, 07:28 PM
May 2012

in some good old fashioned settling of scores with the nuns.

I think they have taken on the wrong group and have certainly picked a very bad time.

Glad to see that LCWR is going ahead with their annual assembly in August. Should be very interesting to follow.

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