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A group of Roman Catholic nuns is set to leave Des Moines on a two-week bus tour of nine states to protest Republican federal budget proposals that the group believes hurt the poor and vulnerable.
The Nuns on the Bus tour departs Monday and is scheduled to finish in Washington, D.C., on July 2.
The nuns will visit Catholic-sponsored social service agencies and the offices of Republican members of Congress including Steve King’s office in Ames, House Speaker John Boehner’s office in Chester, Ohio, and Rep. Eric Cantor’s office in Richmond, Va.
Organizer Sister Simone Campbell says the tour is not a response to the Vatican’s recent criticism of nuns as being too outspoken on social issues. Network, a Catholic social justice lobby founded by sisters, is sponsoring the tour.
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The nuns in the photo that accompanies this article would not be in support of “Nuns on the Bus.” And, the sisters who are doing this bus tour look nothing like that. They don’t wear habits. It’s sad that the nuns in this picture are being used by the author of this piece to represent a view they don’t hold.
This is for Jim and Tony: Couldn’t you guys just agree to disagree?
Well, Eileen, I think we’ve done that a long time ago. But, I will continue to defend the truth — it is the right thing to do.
I will be glad to agree to disagree with Jim. I have to disagree with someone as conservative and myopic as he is. Jim is like the grand inquesitor from the Inquesition. He refers to me as a heritic but I don’t mind, the church had Joan of Arc burnt as a heritic, now they call her a saint and Galleleo was condemened and recently JPII has pardoned him. So I’m in good company.
That hurt my feelings, Tony. I think I better run off to a therapist, and use government funds to pay for the therapist, so that I can be validated in my opinion that all of my problems are caused by someone else. As a result, I will never get better, as I will keep blaming others for my own problems, rather than becoming aware that I am creating my own problems, and then actually do something about them. Now that I’m complaining and blaming others, Tony, does that make me a liberal like you?
Being mindful of the poor and making sure that we as a society take care of them, is not the same thing as increasing national debt. Perhaps the nuns would prefer to pay for programs for the poor out of military spending, or by removing tax breaks for rich corporations (oil companies are an example). And if help is available to poor expectant mothers, fewer of them choose abortion.
Johanna — see Paul’s comment immediately below. He is absolutely correct — there really are no materially poor in America. In a recent John Stossel piece on Fox News, he again demonstrated that those lined up at food kitchens all have cell phones and TVs. One man he interviewed was even indignant that Stossel could think he did not have a cell phone. If you want the truth instead of liberal lies and propaganda, quit watching CBS, ABC, NBC, MSNBC, and quit reading your local newspaper as well as the NY Times and an AP story. Instead, read the Wall Street Journal and watch Fox News. After about a year (depending on how brainwashed you are), you’ll start to know the truth.
I would suggest Jim find sections of his city where there are real poor, with real children who struggle to get a meal every day.
Johanna, guess who owns the “rich corporations?” The 50 percent of Americans who own stock.
Thus, taxing corporations more is tantamount to taxing individual Americans more.
And, the government already confiscates too much of our money.
I’ll never forget a bumper sticker I once saw:
“Thou shalt not steal. The government hates compet-ition.”
the only poor we have in the u.s.a. are spiritually poor not materially. some people have more stuff than others that’s it. sister campbell like all of us should spend more time in prayer & meditation like all us should. I doubt if she is a habit wearing sister & probably more worldly. Stay home your an embarrassment to my church
Tell that to the poor pregnant women without food, or a roof over their heads. Tell that to the hungy and those with no clothes. How ignorant can one be??????????
There are countless homes for unwed poor mothers who care for these poor women and their fetuses.
I am sure you could care less about anyone if they are not pregnant or already born.
Right Tony — another one of your distortions or reality.
Tell the Missionaries of Charity, the group founded by mother theresa, wear habits and minister to the poorest of the poor in the United State, tell them we have no materially poor in the USA.
Tell them to contact John Stossel at Fox News before they continue to spread their misinformation.
That is, tell the Missionaries of Charity that. But, my guess is they don’t engage in the political stuff that you do, Tony — they’re probably like Mother Teresa, doing good work without politics. They poor to whom they minister are poor for their own fault: drug and alcohol addiction.
Right Jim, blame the victim.
You blame the poor for being poor. Brilliant
Indeed I do. Most of them are alcoholics and drug addicts. The real poor are in other countries, not the USA. Liberals like you think you are helping these people out, when all you are really doing is reinforcing their helplessness and dependency. And of course, you’re doing it by taking money out of other people’s pockets. Conservatives have been found to be more generous than liberals when giving their own money to worthy causes, but liberals are more generous with other people’s money. You know, Obama socialism.
I would rather give to someone who I was fooled by in thinking S/he as in need than turn down someone who really is in need.
God forgive you for your arrogance toward the poor.
Tony — the concept of “enabling” is relevant here. Giving to those not in need enables their irresponsible and dependent lifestyle, which in the end destroys them. People need to be held accountable for their actions. If they want their life to improve, then they need to do those things that will result in improvement. Even conservatives such as myself are willing to fund programs like drug rehab, as we understand (probably better than the liberals) that a drug addict with no money never will quit, get a job, and save their money so that they can pay for rehab.
I once heard a priest who ministered to the homeless who said he would never give to a pan-handler, as he said 90% of the time they are complete con artists. I myself have experienced the same thing — offering to buy a meal for a person who says they are hungry, but the person refuses, actually claiming they don’t like the food at the restaurant I proposed — a restaurant at which I myself have eaten numerous times. If it’s good enough for me, it should be good enough for those claiming to be hungry.
God help us, that priest must have been an up tight conservative like youself. Ya think Jesus was a conservative like you?
Indeed, he was. After he stopped the woman from being stoned by writing in the sand, He then commanded her to “sin no more.” It is the first spiritual work of mercy to admonish the sinner. The reason it is so foreign to you, Tony, is that, as said earlier, the Church was hijacked by liberals after Vatican II, and so you never hear from the pulpit about sin, Hell, Purgatory, etc. All you hear about is “love”, which would be good if love was understood correctly to include things like admonishing sinners.
And of course, what these social-justice nuns don’t appreciate is that, if we keep going down the path Obama is taking us, everyone will be poor and vulnerable. By contrast, if we get on top of our federal budget, then even the current-poor will have some chance of improving themselves.
My guess is that the picture that accompanies this article is not of these social-justice sisters. They are very unlikely to wear habits. It’s just like the article last week that used a picture of Mother Teresa in the story about the LCWR’s deviance. Mother Teresa would never have supported the LCWR. So again, it is very unlikely these nuns in their habits are the ones out there campaigning for Obama.
So, do the nuns favor Democrat Obama, who twice voted against born-alive legislation in the IL legislature that would have required babies who survive a saline abortion to have their life supported? Obama clearly is in favor of the 1.2 million babies ripped from their mothers’ wombs each year. If you want to talk about the marginalized, it is those 1.2 million babies. Any vote for social justice / Democrats is a vote against the life of 1.2 million babies. Wake up, Tony and Francis.
Thank you Sisters and thank you for working on behalf of the poor and marginalized.
You go girls! You’re in my prayers