Catholic Bishops Are Investigating The Girl Scouts

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11. This is stupid

Many of the scout leaders in those troops are parishioners! It's not like the girl scouts troops leadsrs are professionals. The troop leaders are volunteers!

The troops are going to be fractured. Non Catholics are going to be WTF! Catholics are going to be divided. Millennial catholic participation is down anyhow. So a lot who are catholic in surveys don't go to church. Millennial Catholics are known for liberal attitudes on social issues.

The catholic church has lost one generation of women : the 40 something's and they know they are losing a second generation of women, the gen x/millenials.

So really about 1/8 of the girl scouts might follow the bishops...but they will be saying that THEIR troop doesn't do anything against catholic doctrine. I am thinking that half of those surveyed are church going Catholics. And it is a stretch to say that they will look at the goings on in their own troop as something non catholic.

Also, tee heee. A lot of these same Catholics know the nuns personally who are being picked on... And they love the nuns.

In philadelphia, Cardinal Chaput would dearly love to create an alliance with the unions especially the teachers unions to limit the financial damage from the sex abuse scandals. So, he's going to put the squeeze on the catholic troop leaders who are also teachers???

Umm...and you want these same women to bail the church out financially from the sex abuse scandals. Or participate in the church's movement for "religious liberty"??? Who are going to be your foot soldiers? Women do all the grunt work in the church.

Women make up 51% of the catholic church. And a lot are really pissed off.

Before anyone says go join the episcopalian church, a lot of our faith is tied up with ethnic saints who aren't in the episcopal church or with the time honored rituals that are catholic. Leaving for another church may be an option for some, but not all of us. Also, a number of saints who aren't in the episcopalian church are female saints who stood up to the hierarchy, like St Theresa of Avila or St Hildegard !!!

My prediction is that over time, as the hierarchy sinks itself with a mixture of criminality and stupidity, lay women are going to rise and take power within the church and reform it into a much better space.
Occupy Catholic has started and I think picking on the nuns and Girl Scouts is accelerating this process.