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...Defiant Nun...
Archbishop Edmund Szoka of Detroit insists that a nun in such a public post must, as a minimum, declare her opposition to public financing of an operation that the Second Vatican Council deemed an "unspeakable crime." The resulting test of wills between nun and Archbishop is embarrassing Governor James Blanchard, dividing the state's Catholics, and seems destined to land at the Vatican for final judgment...
...both her order and Archbishop Szoka for permission to serve. The order readily approved. So did Szoka, but he states that he gave his support only on condition that Mansour would clarify her position on abortion so that it was in line with church teaching. Szoka noted that the nun "cannot control the laws of the state," and added: "To make a big issue of this one thing seems a bit sensational...
Mansour was not about to make that concession when she appeared last week at her confirmation hearing in the Michigan senate. The nun testified, "I recognize that we live in a morally pluralistic society that government must be respectful of, and that my morality may not be someone else's morality." Evoking the memory of John F. Kennedy, she asked, "Are all Catholics once again suspect and possibly denied the privilege of public service?" Sister Agnes also said she saw no ecclesiastical "obstacle" to accepting the post. The senate confirmed her nomination...
...nun's superiors in the Sisters of Mercy have refused Szoka's appeal that they compel her to step down. Unless a compromise can be worked out, the issue will end up at the Vatican's Sacred Congregation for Religious and Secular Institutes. The congregation's deliberation would take months, if not years, and by then the church's new code of canon law will be in effect. If the congregation goes by the book, it will back Szoka. New canon No. 285:3 "flatly forbids a nun or priest to hold public office in any circumstances...