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1. The Religious Women are responding with maturity and grace. They are not subordinate to the men in Rome or the Bishops, they are first and formost Women with dignity and rights.
   They should be seen as coequal and collaborators with the male clergy.
   I fully support the Sisters, I thank them for all they have done for the Chruch and for me. They have taught me reading and writting and math, they have taken care of me in their hospitals and most importanly they have taught me to be a disciple of Jesus Christ.

   Posted By: Tony

2. Once again, the Sisters of the USA are teaching us how to be non-violent, courageous people of dignity and intelligence. They have always shown us the way to the Truth. Their intelligent, non-violent response to a violent, mysogenistic action is one more lesson for all of us to learn.
   Thank you, Sisters for being faithful to the Mission and to God's People.

   Posted By: Siena

3. Is it the independent sister or the community leadership that is at fault. Looks like the women folk can do without men and the men folk without the women. Male Religious Communities also have requirements to obedience. There was a time when a Sister had the Charity to proclaim her Sisters fault(s). My look how far we have come since '61...the council made life a lot more fun...it's a lot easier to be a nun. Such went the vow of obedience.
   

   Posted By: john pat

4. Don't worry about deadlines with the Roman Curia....especially the Congregation for Religious....I have been writing to Rode for years and he has yet to answer any of my letters....I was promised an answer years ago...in writing.....to date nothing. Now I send off a letter every once in a while just for the fun of it. Maybe they are too busy getting measured for new cappa magnas....you know....those long capes originally designed to cover the horses' asses.

   Posted By: Tom

5. If U.S. women religious want the validation of belonging to the Roman Catholic Church and, if they have nothing to hide due to anti-clericalism and feminist politics, then they should proudly answer the questionnaire. This protest against authority is juvenile. It is the anti-Church attitudes that have repelled people and cost them vocations. It might be just as well to let them go down the drain and start over with new congregations. It is only the more conservative orders that are gaining new members now. Secularization is the worm that spoiled the apple. I know. I was in a teaching order that threw out its prayer life and closed its schools. I left, as did many others. I was sick of the anger, rebellion, and immature "I'm gonna do my thing" nonsense.

   Posted By: Susan Varenne

6. Women religious who are failing to comply with a Vatican request to answer questions in a document from Apostolic Visitator, Mother Angela Millea, forget the nature of the Church and how their congregation came to exist and be officially recognized. Their contentious attitude also underscores the very reason why a visitation is needed.
   
   Insolence and hostility toward the teaching office and authority of the Vatican has become fashionable among a number of orders of religious women and men as well. This adolescent behavior does not attract vocations among today’s serious young people. Most of these orders will wither away and die.
   
   Those orders faithful to the Holy See and to living what's in their constitutions (communal life, Mass and prayer, fidelity to their calling) are made up of members proud to be a part of their communities. They have nothing to hide. These orders are the ones who are attracting vocations of young, reverent women aspiring to live a holy, consecrated life. They represent the future and the hope of religious life in the 21st century Church. Thanks be to God.
   

   Posted By: Jim Connolly

7. We need more dissent of this kind. We need to prove to the Vatican that it can be and has been wrong. This is not what Christ left us - an imperialist body of men wearing fancy clothes and burning incense who hold themselves blameless and above criticism. He left us guys in poor rags, who were smelly fishermen and who were to think of themselves as the lowest of the low in order to serve one another.
   Wait - serve one another- ? That sounds exactly like the charism of our orders of sisters today.
   If I'm dying, I would prefer a nun who loves Christ to a priest that obeys Rome.
   

   Posted By: Evagrius

8. Everyone that refuses to comply should be declared a dissident and removed from the Church even if that should mean removing whole religious orders.

   Posted By: Michael McFarland

9. Brilliant ladies. Very Christ - like. Give to the Vatican what is due them and continue to give us the Church your prayers,works, leadership, fidelity, and courage.

   Posted By: Jim Ullrich

10. Let them be anathema. They are dissidents and do more to undermine the faith than to cultivate it.
    They rarely wear habits and truly dont deserve to.
    These heretical feminists should get jobs as secular teachers and stay out of the Church. LET THE LIBERAL ORDERS DIE!!! THEY ARE IN THEIR DEATH THROES NOW AS MORE ORTHODOX ORDERS ARE THRIVING!!!!

    Posted By: JOE SEMINARIAN

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