Sister Simone Campbell is something of a celebrity now. She’s the media’s most favoritest nun since Joan Chittister. While Sister Simone is at the Democrat Convention, appears on CNN and in every major newspaper, Sister Mary Rose Reddy of New Hampshire can only write a letter to the editor. So it’s up to us dopey bloggers to promulgate this wonderful message:
Speaking at the Democratic National Convention on Wednesday, Sister Simone Campbell urged her listeners to oppose the Romney-Ryan budget plan and to support the Affordable Care Act. She indicated that by doing so they would be agreeing with the bishops and standing with the nuns. While it is true that the US Conference of Catholic Bishops has criticized what they consider to be too severe cuts to services for the poor in the proposed Romney-Ryan budget, it is not true that the bishops or even most nuns in the United States support the Affordable Care Act.
The Affordable Care Act and its associated Department of Health and Human Services mandate, which would force all health insurers, even those of Catholic children’s homes, hospitals, and colleges, to cover contraceptives, sterilizations, and abortion-inducing drugs, is an assault on religious liberty. No Catholic sister can support it and support the church’s teaching at the same time.
Having been a professed religious sister for more than 29 years, I need to state clearly that Sister Simone Campbell is not speaking for me or for thousands of other sisters in the United States.
Sister Mary Rose Reddy
Rochester, N.H.
HT Pewsitter
September 11, 2012 at 11:42 pm
Thank you, Sister Mary Rose!
September 12, 2012 at 12:03 am
The race baiter Leonard Pitts wrote a piece praising sister Simone as if she represented all the nuns. Heh! Then he dissed the Vatican. Isn't this the Leonard Pitts that went screaming into the night after George Bush won in 2004 with a piece entitled "George Bush and the new American Theocracy"? Me thinks that Sister Simone and Leonard Pitts needs to cool down.
September 12, 2012 at 3:31 am
The New American Theocracy? Is that where "Thou shalt not kill" will be taught in public schools?
Thank you, Sister Mary Rose
September 14, 2012 at 5:06 pm
sister simone said at the end of her speech on how much help the nunsonthebus hv given- 'this is what 100% pro-life looks like.' sister mary rose and others are following the boss' orders: shut up, sisters. tend to the downtrodden and dont be political, said the pope. sister mary rose is everything WRONG with Catholicism's institutional dogma. sister simone is who catholics should try to be, not be dismissing her b/c she doesnt fit your teensy closed mind-set abt birth control. how patently ridiculous. how embarrassing for the nuns who speak like this. this is why catholicism will die- they refuse chrisitanity to enforce caesar's laws. shame.