Having brought up religion, I remembered that the Cardinals are attempting to bully the Leadership Conference of Women Religious for, you know, actually carrying out the tenets of Christianity; Garry Wills had
an excellent essay on that at the
New York Review of Books via
Making Light (which also links to an article on
what nuns do). Fred Clark at
The Slacktivist links to a
history of Hierarchy vs. American women religious (and other writings) and puts together a
selection of references thus:
The Vatican’s crackdown on the Leadership Conference of Women Religious (i.e., on American nuns) is proving to be a public relations disaster and a morale-killer within the Catholic Church because it gives the appearance of a bunch of power-mad misogynists trying to distract from their own horrific scandals by exerting arbitrary manly authority over women who spend most of their time helping people.
It gives that appearance because, actually, the Vatican’s crackdown on the LCWR is a bunch of power-mad misogynists trying to distract from their own horrific scandals by exerting arbitrary manly authority over women who spend most of their time helping people.
*innocent look*
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