Nun group sets off on bus tour to protest Republican budget proposal
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A group of Roman Catholic nuns are embarking on a two-week bus tour to advocate against Republican federal budget proposals that they say hurts low income and vulnerable populations.
The Nuns of the Bus tour is headed towards Ames, its first stop. The tour will directly target the current House Republican budget, authored by Rep. Paul Ryan, R-Wis. They will stop by nine states — Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Michigan, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Virginia, Maryland and Wisconsin — before they are scheduled to finish in Washington July 2.
The nuns will visit Catholic-sponsored social service agencies and the offices of Republican members of Congress, including Rep. Steve King’s office in Ames, House Speaker John Boehner’s office in Chester, Ohio, and Rep. Eric Cantor’s office in Richmond, Va. [more]
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Maybe we can hope for a “PRICE LINE” bus commercial. Maybe.
Hmm, I don’t remember “nuns on the bus” or this Network social justice organization protesting when Obama’s first executive order was to allow our tax dollars to fund overseas abortions. Where we’re these “nuns” when the debate over planned parenthood funding was in the news last year? After all, planned parenthood kills thousands of low income babies every year and supports sex selected and racially motivated abortions. I don’t recall hearing about them at all lobbying democrats in Congress to vote against the abortion industry. I’m putting the word “nuns” in quotes for a reason: these women are NOT nuns. Their forebearers who started the schools and hospitals were but these people have totally rejected not just Catholicism but Christianity in general. They do not care about the poor and marginalized as evidenced by their silence on the most important social justice issue… Life! These bitter feminists are just that: feminists.
Wow, Andrew — I wish you were my neighbor — I’d buy you a beer! Cheers! I’m glad to know someone else can see through the thin view of these radical, non-Catholic feminists who masquerade as “nuns.”
That should have said, “thin veil…”
Andrew, you are correct, they are not nuns. Nuns usually live in Monasterys or Convents and are in Solemn vows.
These women are properly refered to as Sisters and are under one of the two umbrella groups of Sisters in the United States. Perhaps these Sisters who are so involved in Social Justice Issues left it to the other Sisters in the ohter umbrella group to apeak out against your pet conservative issues that generally come under the heading of womans rights.
Come to think of it, we don’t hear to much from the other umbrella group of social justice issues. I guess each group concentrates on it’s own issues and compliment each other in their service to the entire church.
Oh come on, Tony — are you serious? If you are, you are missing the point of Andrew putting the word “nuns” in quotes. That is not his point — his point is that, whether you call them “sisters” or “nuns”, they are not being faithful to the Church.
Thank you Jim and cheers to you as well. I think many of the people posting in defense of these fake “nuns”, “sisters” or whatever aren’t Catholic and if they are, they are pathetically ignorant of Church teaching.
Mr. Tony… the issue of life is not a pet conservative issue. Without the right to life, the arguments for racial justice, economic fairness and every other cause is meaningless. Margaret Sanger, the founder of Planned Parenthood was a promoter of abortion to control the black population (look it up, its in her own writings). Today, Planned Parenthood has been caught on camera agreeing to take funds to abort black babies and as we saw in the news last week, they opposed the legislation in congress to forbid sex-selective abortions like what happens daily and Communist China and India. So much for racial justice and women’s rights (girls are always the ones to killed in a sex selective abortion).
Every real Christian who has seen a sonogram knows that life begins at conception. How dare these feminists masquerading as women religious ignore this issue.
The Choice accuse the rt to lifers that they are only interested in the fetus while in the womb and could not care less about the baby after it is born and through adulthood. You who find fault with the peace and justce nuns are the reason they think as they do. Shame on you for your myopic views
Wrong! We right to lifers care about the BABY in the womb and outside the womb. Mother Theresa is the perfect example of a right to lifer (and a real nun b.t.w.) who cared for the rejected children of the world and nurtured them through adulthood. Every parent who adopts a child appreciates life a lot more than the hateful pro aborts who protest over funding cuts to the racists at Planned Parenthood.
Come on, Mother Theresa was one in a million. But even she, and here sisters are limited by space and time.
The Sisters of Life do marvelous work for unwed mothers and their new borns.
Good Councel Homes run by a layman Chris Bell does great work for unwed mothers and their babys.
But despite all this great work there needs to be those people who advocate for life after birth.
We need Sisters to advocate and fight for the poor and the marginalized. We need people to advocate for the poor and sick adults and elderly, we need to make sure that life is well taken care of of the first moment of conception to a natural death, no question. And this is waht the Sisters and Network are doing, taking care of life after birth.
No one can do everything Andrew and Jim, but all can do something. And the “liberals” are doing their thing.
Tony — for the record, I am not against helping the poor and marginalized; in fact, if you knew what I did for a living (and you will if we meet someday in the afterlife), you’d be surprised at how much I’ve devoted myself to the marginalized in particular. Your assumption that pro-lifers don’t care about those people has just been programmed into you by the liberal garbage you’ve read. As you say, you are in favor of life from the moment of conception until natural death. Well, so am I. Those are not the things I disagree with when you post. What I disagree with is your support for heretical sisters (e.g., Farley) who state that masturbation almost never is a moral issue; that homosexual sex should be respected; and that women should be ordained. Also, you seem to have a consistent bias against men, male authority, and hierarchial organization.
I beleive that theologians should attempt to expand our understanding of theological issues especially morality.
Tony — in your post above, “expand” is code for “modfiy”, or “deviate from the Truth.”
Go get ‘em, Andrew. It’s nice to have company on this site.
If you click on the [more] button at the end of the story, you will find the following (I simplied copied and pasted it, deleteing some of the paragraphs in the middle):
The tour was organized by Network, a Washington-based Catholic social justice group criticized in a recent Vatican report that said some organizations led by nuns have focused too much on economic injustice while failing to promote the church’s teachings on abortion and same-sex marriage. The Vatican asked U.S. bishops to look at Network’s ties to another group of nuns it is reorganizing because of what the church calls “serious doctrinal problems.”
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The tour kicked off with a rally that had the feel of a political event. About 20 supporters brought flowers and balloons and sang, “Alleluia,” as the nuns boarded a modern tour bus decorated with bright-colored graphics.
So, indeed, these nuns appear to be the liberal, feminists, political activists. None of them, I’m sure, wear habits.
To answer Tony’s objections: it is documented that when private schools require a dress code, behavior improves. When these nuns got out of their habits, they started being disobedient to Rome’s hierarchy and Church dogma.
So, let’s rework that “you go, girl!” phrase: “you stop your nonsense, sisters!”
Eileen — as an addendum, as I’ve posted previously: I once interviewed a “sister” for a position with an organization I headed, an organization that required all employees to support the organization’s mission, including taking a pro-life position in every case without exception. This “sister” told me she could not do that, as the ethics of her profession had to come first. I was shocked — I even told her, “Sister, that’s a mortal sin!” If you knew my background, I never would have believed I ever would tell that to a nun. I respected them — they did a great job educating me. But, those were faithful nuns. Many religious women today are bad news, in my opinion. BTW — I did not offer a position to that “sister”, on the grounds of her immorality.
Aaah, just as I suspected — and posted yesterday. The sisters doing this protest are not the ones wearing habits in the picture that was attached to yesterday’s story. We now see what they really look like — although I don’t know this for sure, and therefore will retract it if I am wrong, they very well may be a bunch of protesting, bra-burning feminists who have departed from Church teaching and dogma.
They are following the Gospel mandate of caring for the poor and maginalized, who cares what they wear.
Truly, the difference between yesterday’s picture and today’s is stunning — yesterday’s picture is still available, so you should click on that story to see the stark contrast. It is nuns like this — feminist liberals — that have done so much damage to the Church. We support the reverent nuns in habits — but not these women, especially given that so many nuns (according to the LCWR) do not suport the Church hierarchy.
Beware of both Republicans and Democrats – they are all criminals and self-serving narcisists
Thanks be God for these Sisters fighting foe the poor and marginalized.
God hears the cry of the poor. May we also hear and respond.
My thoughts Tony. I hope the Sisters can at least get a few of the GOP Reps to think about what they are doing – but I will not hold my breath.