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The “Nuns on the Bus” have been a consistently popular and effective faith-based tool for religious progressives this campaign season, but on Monday a group of demonstrators apparently organized by a local Tea Party affiliate met the nuns at a stop in Marietta, Ohio, and provided a far different welcome than the sisters usually receive.
Holding placards with slogans like “Bums on the Bus” and “Romney-Ryan Yes, Fake Nuns No,” the protesters focused their fire on the abortion issue, accusing the sisters of not being sufficiently anti-abortion.
Someone claiming to be a member of the local “We the People” chapter — that is the name used by some Tea Party affiliates in the region — posted a YouTube video of the counter-demonstrators taken before the half dozen nuns and some 100 supporters arrived. It says there were more than 175 marchers opposing the nuns and it shows the demonstrators praying the rosary and singing hymns before challenging the sisters.
“What could be more innocuous, unless of course the nuns happen to be a group of radical, feminist ideologues whose previous political actions have been so out of step with the teaching of the Catholic Church that they have been condemned by the Vatican,” the YouTube poster wrote in text accompanying the footage.
Sister Simone Campbell, who leads the Washington-based NETWORK, a left-leaning Catholic social justice group, has spearheaded the Nuns on the Bus tours and spoke against the budget drafted by GOP vice presidential nominee Paul Ryan during the Democratic National Convention in Charlotte, N.C.
The Nuns on the Bus have stressed social justice causes in their tours of areas hard-hit by the recession, and many conservative critics and political activists say their message shortchanges the abortion issue.
The sisters reject that criticism, and one of the nuns on the bus, Sister Monica McGloin, on Monday told the protesters in Marietta that “we are 100 percent pro-life.”
“As many of your signs are showing, we believe life begins at conception and ends with natural death,” McGloin said in remarks that were transcribed by Faith in Public Life, a liberal advocacy group that has provided media support for the sisters. [More]
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Ok, I misspelled Democrat. I went to Public School.
This publication has fallen off the left edge of the universe. It is a load of rubbish and is certainly not in concert with authentic Catholic teaching.
I love Social Justice and I love the Catholic Church. Social Justice is the work of preserving and restoring the rights and dignity of every human person, no mater how sick or poor, or old or frail. The problem with the Nuns on the Bus is they are hypocrites. They claim to be all about Social Justice but believe that the dignity and value of an unborn human person is not innate but is dependent on the recognition of their mother.
They MUST remember that Jesus said, “whatsoever you do to the least of these little ones, you do unto me.” Paul Ryan uses the Compendium of the Social Teaching of the Catholic Church as a basis for his budgets and to inform and direct his work in congress. The Democratic Party has enshrined the “right” to abortion in their party platform. How will these “brides of Christ” be able to look their spouse in the eye when they stand before him to make an account of themselves. I would NOT like to be in their shoes and pray fervently that they repent of this lie they are spreading around the country.
Agreed. But when you see a screeching woman touting “free phone if you’re welfare” leads me to believe some people know how to work the system and in my opinion the attempt to be “socially just” is tainted.
here’s the link
http://blog.heritage.org/2010/01/18/government-welfare-cell-phones-for-the-poor/
Cm share with the less fortunate.
So many things, first,we may vote for whomever we choose as long as we are not voting for that person exclusively for things that the church disagrees with or state is a sin. Second, I feel the church wants its cake and eat it too. They enjoy and take taxpayers money to help fund their institutions that employ people of all faiths and those with none at all. They feel that they should be able to inflict their beliefs on all of their employees. They either need to only hire catholics or refuse taxpayers money from the government that is funding their institutions. They closed an orphanage because of not wanting to follow the rules regarding what they can and cannot do. They are within their rights to close. Third, because the church is unable or unwilling to aid all the poor of the populace of the US, the government has stepped in. Jesus told us to give to Ceasar the things that are his. I read nowhere that we are to do otherwise.
I champion the nuns who work directly with the poor, disadvantaged and those in need. They truly do the work of Jesus. They have given the lives for this and are deseving of our respect and admiration and most of all our prayers.
I will vote for the residing President again. I cannot fathom voting for the person who he is running against. He is the most unpatriotic presidental hopeful that I have known in my 64 years. Any one who exploits the american people to make his millions and has the gall to keep a large amount of it in overseas bank accounts to keep from paying his fair of taxes like the rest of us is unpatriotic and undeserving of our allegiance as president.
Sharon,
What sort of alternate universe have you resided in for the last 64 years? “the church is unable or unwilling to aid all the poor of the populace of the US, the government has stepped in.” Really, just weird.
Not weird, just factual. During biblical days the church cared for its members. Not that I expect the church now to do the same. Just saying! Some people complain about helping the poor and call it socialism. Caring for the poor and disadvantaged is our obligation as christians. The church today is unable to do it all.
We all have an obligation to care for and help those less fortunate than themselves. But just as we cannot be compelled to love God, neither can we be compelled to love our neighbor. The Government takes God out of the equation and by forcefully redistributing wealth (taxes are compulsory) remove the freedom from an act of charity and as a result also remove the charity (love) from the act also. Compelling people to give is Socialism. Christianity compels not through force (as government does) but through the persuasiveness of the Gospel and the love of and for God. I give to the poor because I love Christ, NOT because the Government thinks I should. If there is a deficiency of charity in the world, it exists in the hearts of men and women NOT in their pocket books.
The Church always cared for anyone in need, not just its own members, you’re being stupid. Even in the first days, Christians picked up abandoned infants the Romans left on the roadside because they were inconvenient girls or children of slaves. And Catholic hospitals have NEVER been exclusive. 1 in 10 hospital beds in the US are Catholic.
The Government has given money to the church to do what it doesn’t have the resources to do, or to do as cheaply. Not to do “church things” but feed and educate and care for those in need. The Government could not begin to absorb the responsibility if the Church was shut down in its charitable efforts.
The record of “progressive” sisters over the past 40 years speaks for itself. Yes, indeed, why are they not in their chapels praying, dressed in their habits as Pope JOhn Paul II requested? Note to Gene: you have a gift for analytical thought processes. I applaud you. Excellent posts.
I’ve unsuccessfully tried to morph from an Irish Catholic into a Christian. That said, the tea party types are a selfish “I’ve got mine, forget about everyone else” collection of hypocrites. They have absolutely no sense that there is a Common Good. My friends in the firefighter’s union maintain that should a tea partyer’s house erupt in flames, let them fetch the garden hose and “Good luck”. “We the People” have the temerity to harass these good women. I’d like to see those Pharisees taunt a picket line of firefighters, construction workers, or locomotive engineers. They’d be on their knees, but not in prayer.
The comments on this page prove that Pro-life Republicans are the meanest people on the face of the earth. I don’t blame people for not liking them.
… she said as she tore the child limb from limb, and sucked it out of its mother’s womb.
You are a sick goul. Gene.
And you are a hypocrite!
Anyone who supports legal abortion by that very fact assumes full responsibility for the 60,000,000 children who have died from abortions since 1973. Try to justify yourself!
I support leagal abortion so that the woman may safely achieve her constitutional right.
Helen: Science is not on your side. If it’s not OK to kill another person, then it’s not OK to kill another person who is not yet born. Inside or outside the uterus is just geography.
In the U.S.A. you have the right to bear arms and to kill if you feel threatened..you enjoy the right to freedom of speech even if it causes others to over react and murder your county-men who are overseas and you have a constitutional right to kill your own unborn child.
There is something wrong with this picture. You Americians have so many constitutional freedoms and rights. What about the rights of others? What about God?
Nuns on the Bus is funded by George Soros. http://www.catholicworldreport.com/Blog/1467/surprise_nuns_on_the_bus_was_a_sorosfunded_publicity_stunt.aspx
as I thought
Anyone who wishes to support the great work on Nuns On The Bus may send donations to Network the Catholic Social Justice Agency in Washington, NY.
The Sisters, Sister Simone Campbell, NETWORK, liberation theology are all pro-life. Being for life means a dignified life free of hunger, poverty, exploitation and abuse
Yeah, “free of hunger, poverty, exploitation and abuse,” using other peoples’ money. They’re called Socialists.
Oh, and that assumes the life doesn’t get aborted. After all,”Sister” Simone likes abortion.
Keep your rosaries off my overaies.
Go mind your own business. Abortion is betwwen a doctor and his patient and a constitutional right.
If it is only your business why are you asking me to pay for it? You can’t have it both ways!
“keep your rosaries off my ovaries”? Then get your ovaries out of my wallet! I am really not interested in your sex life and I do not feel I should have to subsidize it.
Liberation theology was condemned by Pope John Paul II. It may be pro-life, but it is not consistent with other Catholic teachings.
….Sister Simone Campbell, who leads the Washington-based NETWORK, a left-leaning Catholic social justice group, has spearheaded the Nuns on the Bus tours……….The Nuns on the Bus have stressed social justice causes……..these “nuns” are the product of the failed Vatican II “reforms”.
Catholics need to think twice about the “social justice” aspect of the faith……….it has been hijacked by the likes of these so called “nuns”…………The Roman Catholic Faith and anything “left leaning” i.e. communist, do not mix………….see Archbishop Fulton Sheen’s teachings on communism…………And, who is funding this circus? Why aren’t these consecrated women praying rather than bringing scandal and confusion?
HOW CAN A CHRISTIAN VOTE FOR A POLITICAL PARTY THAT WANTED TO
REMOVE THE MENTION OF GOD OUR HEAVENLY FATHER FROM its PLANK?
2 Timothy 3:1-5 But understand this that in the last days there will come times of difficulty. For people will be lovers of self, lovers of money, proud, arrogant, abusive, disobedient to their parents, ungrateful, unholy, heartless, unappeasable, slanderous, without self-control, brutal, not loving good, treacherous, reckless, swollen with conceit, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God, having the appearance of godliness, but denying its power. Avoid such people.
The Democrat Party is the partner of Planned Parenthood in Black Genocide, killing tens of millions of unborn black babies. “Depart from her, my people so as not to take part in her sins and receive a share in her plagues,” Revelation 18:4. See the video on Youtube titled “Bishop E. W. Jackson Message to Black Christians”
Failed Vatican II????????
Hijacked?
How far is your head up your behind cm????????????
Sam Hill has it right. The nuns on the bus are not representing the Catholic church.
Every day there are more reasons for me not to be a Catholic. If Jesus was here today he would be on the bus.
Reason to stay Catholic: The Body, Blood, Soul and divinity in the Eucharist. Protestant churches?? – wine and a wafer.
“The Father, Son and the Holy Ghost, … caught the last train to the coast.” Take that train, and leave the nuns alone on their bus.
Actually, Jesus is here today. through His One, Holy, Catholic and Apostolic Church He is teaching. The so called, “Nuns on the Bus”, who aren’t really “Nuns” because this term refers only to those who are cloistered, would not be on a bus, but in a monastery. I’ve met several “Women Religious” of this mindset who enjoy the recognition that they think that they can get. At the Democratic Convention, Simone wasn’t even given that much attention. Of course, if you disagree with them, Heaven Help You! Not even Hallowe’en has enough scare to it as a religious sister who is confronted with an opposing view. By the way JJ, I hope that you are enjoying worshipping at the altar of the democratic party. If Satan herself (I want to be inclusive) ran for office as a democrate, you, and others like you, would vote for her.
You are so right!!!
My reply was to jake jones.
I like what Sam Hill has to say and Ed. Can’t we all just get along? Nuns and priet are to help us stay focused on God not political power. We are not in control. “Please take me home heavanly road.”
Christ said, “Do you think that I have come to establish peace on the earth? No, I tell you, but rather division.” Luke 12:51. So long as nuns serve the Money Power, the tool of Satan, we Christians are obligated to oppose them. So, there will be division, and we can’t “all just get along”. That is cowardice!
The so called TeaParty is dedicated to the proposition that the GOPs “old white guys” are destined to rule this country in perpetuity.
Having turned their deaf ears from the nums, TP wants us to believe that the commandments of Love do not apply in our secular society, that individualism must be encouraged, and that the rules reward the rich. That’s Ayn Rand in a teabag, really toxic stuff which you drink at your own risk.
This comment indulges the fantasy that those who do not want more government, are not charitable.
It reflects the very dangerous mindset that government can be controlled by Christians to accomplish God’s will. That is not happening now, and it will not happen in the future, not because of the “Tea Party”, but because government is the tool very wealthy and powerful individuals who became that way by serving Satan.
hogwash
God Bless you all. Peace
These nuns promote the use of government to carry out the tasks of caring for the poor. Government has no soul, and so has no Christian obligation to fulfill.
The government, in turn, compels taxpayers to fund its giving. Since taxpayers are simply compelled to pay taxes, they derive no spiritual benefit from doing so.
The core “progressives” understand this very well. Their philosophy regards human beings as mere animals, and they regard themselves as more “highly evolved” than the rest of the herd.
These also regard the “Nuns on the Bus” as useful idiots who are serving their purpose to destroy the spiritual life of Christians, along with their God-given dignity.
Who constitute the “government” other than ourselves? We are our brothers keeper, what we do collectively as a government as a nation we do to Christ Himself.
Chist has said, Whatever you do to the least of my brothers you do to me.” That goes for us, individually as well as collectively as a free govenment.
Tony, in reality government is only power. It is the tool of those very few with the money and influence necessary to seize it.
The Money Power has purchased both major political powers. Democracy is an illusion promoted by the Money Power to pacify the rest of humanity.
LaSallete! All of us are in a stupor. We have eyes to see, but, are blind. We have ears to hear, but, are deaf. Our hearts have turned to stone. We reject the wisdom of God and embrace our own foolishness. Let us all turn back to what is right and good. Politics is a ceaspool of division,a tool of the Devil,used to trample on the commandments of God,to stifle in human hearts the very truth of God! Both factions mentioned in this article have NO understanding of the sabbath rest! Return to wisdom now, or chastisement comes! The signs are all around us! Open your eyes!
Sorry Tony…you labeled the wrong group. The Pharisees are the nuns in this case. They are supporting a president who has a 100% approval rating from NARAL and Planned Parenthood. They may oppose Ryan’s budget proposal, but how is Biden’s budget working out? Oh wait, the veep has little to do with that…The sisters who are upholding the faith are not on the bus.
If you look at the video, you will see a bunch of very mean spirited scary looking conservative people, who say they are prolife but are voting to take food our people’s mouths, and limit the education of the poor through the Ryan Budget.
The policies of the Obama regime have thrown millions into poverty. Millions are trying to find work and to say that welfare is the answer is the ultimate sophistry.
Maureen; welfare might not be the answer, but it sure beats starving to death..or sleeping outside on a cold pavement.
Well said Maureen. This administration and it’s policies have increased poverty manyfold.
Jesus warned His true followers, “they have persecuted me, they wii also persecute you.”
Just as Jesus was persecuted so too are these Nuns who work for Peace and justice. The right wing conservative nut jobs are the Pharasees of today. May God bless the Nuns on the Bus.
Oh, it’s so hurtful! Booohooo!
Thank you Tony.