Sister Simone Campbell in the Maoist garb of a post-Vatican II nun (AP)

DON VINCENZO writes:

Those devoted servants of God known as the “Nuns on the Bus” are back on the road once again led by Sister Simone Campbell, who was a speaker at the Democratic National Convention. This time our Sisters Religious seek, through “faith-based” support, passage of President Obama’s Comprehensive Immigration Reform, which really means “amnesty” for illegal aliens currently in the country, whose numbers reach tens of millions.

Sister Campbell met with President Obama in the White House in late May prior to the departure of the bus and its seven occupants on a trip that will cover 6,500 miles, in 15 states, and end in San Francisco. Sister Simone’s invitation to the White House came from a president  whose policy now dictates that on federal installations, Catholic priests can not claim a religious objection to performing a homosexual marriage ceremony.

One wonders whatever happened to the charges that Network, the Sisters’ “lobby for social justice,” was engaged in unacceptable practices, which also included shilling for President Obama’s Health Care bill and its unapologetic approval of the abortion license. Obviously, there are those clergy in Catholic – and non-Catholic – circles who thought the work of Network of great value: Msgr. Kevin Sullivan, of Catholic Charities in the New York Archdiocese, and Rabbi Jack Jacobs of the Union of Reformed Judaism, thought the  Sisters were doing a swell job, although no such endorsement came from the Union of Orthodox Rabbis.

It has been more than four years (January, 2009) since Cardinal Franc Rode of the Vatican’s Congregation for Institutes of Consecrated Life and Society of Apostolic Life announced an “Apostolic Visit” to the houses of Women’s Religious organizations in the U.S. to address the problem of alleged irregularities amongst the sisters (“nuns” normally are cloistered). Feminist indoctrination, serious deviation from Catholic doctrine and teaching, and lesbian activity were among the concerns. Serious stuff, indeed.

In a short time, the Holy See appointed the Bishop of Seattle, Exc. Peter Sartain, along with two other bishops to address and resolve the issues that had come to the attention of Vatican officialdom. That was then.

Although Bishop Sartain’s report was sent to the Vatican last year, where it is now being examined, no further action regarding the questionable work of Network has evolved, and the evidence is that it never will. Cardinal Rode’s successor is Cardinal Joao de Aviz, who claims that he was “never consulted” by those examining the actions of Sister Simone et al., and that the ongoing investigation caused him “much pain.” Despite the words emanating from the Vatican about holding the Network’s feet to the fire, I seriously doubt that there will be any further action on this issue or any attempt to censure Sister Campbell and her band of merry social ministers.

The effort by Pope Benedict XVI to hold the sisters religious accountable may come to little. One can see the outlines of a larger problem, the elephant in the room, so to speak: there appears to be a hesitation by Vatican officialdom in dealing with the feminist influence in the Church, a policy that will be disastrous and create ever increasing tensions within the Church’s structure. Of that I am sure.

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James P. writes:

The Nuns on the Bus are better described as the Bolsheviks on the Bus (or Communists in Coifs). Before the election, they toured the country promoting “economic justice” and decrying the “deep cuts in the budget proposed by Congressman Paul Ryan.” Lobbying Congress and campaigning for political candidates does not seem like the proper or obvious mission for Catholic nuns to me, but what do I know.

A few years in a convent with strict rules on contemplative silence would do them a world of good!

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