Sister Maureen Paul Turlish of Philadelphia has revealed a brilliant secret plot by the Vatican to make everyone ignore the sexual abuse scandal by publicly attacking nuns.
As we can all attest this ingenious plan likely hatched in the former torture chambers of the CDF has worked brilliantly the past few years as the sexual abuse scandal has received such little media attention that some could say it’s been been completely ignored.
She revealed the plot because she was disappointed that Pope Francis said he expected nuns to be Catholic. This announcement came as such a shock to the nun that she ran to the media and revealed the intricate plot. We all know how much liberal nuns hate complaining to the media about the Church. It must have pained her terribly.
The biggest surprise is only that the Vatican didn’t dispatch assassin albino monks to “get to her” before she got to the media.
CBS Philly reports:
Sister Maureen Paul Turlish belongs to the Sisters of Notre Dame and is active in the Philadelphia chapter of Voices of the Faithful, a national organization which represents nuns in the US.
Turlish had hopes that Pope Francis would distance himself from the actions of his predecessor, Pope Benedict XVI, who, while pope, directed the organization to change its ways because of what he called “radical feminist themes incompatible with the Catholic faith,” an apparent reference to the group’s exploration of church stance on sensitive topics including birth control, abortion, church governance, and the ordination of women.
Turlish says she is troubled by the notion that the church may have used the action against the nuns’ group to divert attention from the ongoing clergy sex abuse scandal.
“This heavyhandedness with the nuns, from my point of view, seemed to be diversionary, to bring attention off that problem and put it on something else,” she told KYW Newsradio today, “and I still, to a certain extent, feel that way.”
I’ll drop the act now. Sister Maureen should be ashamed of herself for using the sexual abuse scandal to further her own agenda. It’s sickening to me. And all the Pope is doing is asking the nuns to act like Catholics and not play quite so much reiki or act as escorts for Planned Parenthood. Is it too much to ask Catholic nuns to act Catholic anymore?
HT Pewsitter
April 17, 2013 at 4:28 pm
NO. The liberal nuns were PART of the problem when they made sure that faithful men were turned away from the Seminaries. Sorry ladies, but you wont be getting off that easy.
April 17, 2013 at 4:30 pm
Anyone who thinks that "the Vatican" is capable of controlling a message is seriously off her rocker. In fact, I would argue that mass communication has NEVER been our strong suit. Even St. Paul had a hard time. We only have two in the Bible, but imagine how many letters he had to write to those Corinthians.
April 17, 2013 at 4:44 pm
Sr. Maureen Paul taught at Archbishop Wood High School (my Alma Mater) while I was a student there in the late '70s. This article does not surprise me at all.
April 17, 2013 at 6:25 pm
I think the nuns are miking a huge tactical mistake (from their own standpoint). I think they can trust Francis not to be too hard on them. They should have meekly submitted to the Pope in a big public way and then they could have gone on doing whatever they wanted. They could have hit the "reset button" for Papal relations…but no, they really are that stupid. IF they had played along and thrown Benedict under the bus in favor of Francis, I really think they could have gotten along with him. In a few years, we could have seen the promulgation of 'Sancta Automata'.
April 18, 2013 at 2:13 am
"this ingenious plan likely hatched in the former torture chambers of the CDF has worked brilliantly the past few years as the sexual abuse scandal has received such little media attention that some could say it's been been completely ignored." HA HA HA!!!!
April 18, 2013 at 3:55 am
Aaaaw. Why are you so uncharitable? Shouldn't we all be niiiiice? Lets all be nice and charitable. The Truth? Whats that?
sarcasm off
April 18, 2013 at 6:13 am
This woman's approach underlines how 'political' the LCWR group is. They apparently don't mind using other's misfortunes and suffering to further their own agenda. It's disgusting and ego driven.
April 18, 2013 at 6:56 am
She seems to be one of Satan's useful idiots.
April 18, 2013 at 8:18 am
Delusional or truly evil.