Word: sisters
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...same principle explains the Pope's controversial demand that priests and sisters give up political careers. The effects in North America: Jesuit Father Robert Drinan of Massachusetts left the U.S. Congress; Father Bob Ogle is no longer a member of the Canadian Parliament; and, in a reverse decision, Sister Arlene Violet decided to quit her order to serve as Rhode Island's new attorney general...
...many leaders in the church hierarchy, the sisters' activity is misguided and muddleheaded. Any support of abortion, which the Second Vatican Council branded an "unspeakable crime," is "not a debatable view or opinion," according to a pastoral letter by Philadelphia's John Cardinal Krol. "When it comes to speaking about the doctrine of the church, we are not free to make up our own minds," says Archbishop John May of St. Louis. "For a sister or priest to deny the teaching of the church is a scandal . . . a flagrant, flashy and deliberate affront...
...thing, many are now highly educated, even more so than their bishops. Sixty- five percent have master's degrees, and 25% have earned doctorates (vs. 24% and 10% among bishops). They are also more mature; most became novices after age 24. And their social views have changed. Says Sister Marie Augusta Neal, who has polled tens of thousands of other sisters as a sociology professor at Boston's Emmanuel College: "If you asked what the primary mission was in 1966, most would have listed their work. If you ask the sisters that today, they would say the mission...
Many parishioners prefer the old traditions, however, and so do perhaps one- third of the nuns. Sister Mary Helen of Boston's Daughters of St. Paul is editor of a religious monthly. She wears a black habit, devotes three hours daily to prayers and believes that a Vatican decision means "it's a finished issue, and to keep hacking over it is like digging up somebody after they're buried." Says Sister Claire Patrice Fitzgerald, principal of a Catholic parochial school outside Los Angeles: "The Mother herself was obedient to her son, Christ. The authority of the church comes from...
...theology at Garrett-Evangelical Theological Seminary in Evanston, Ill. "He brought nuns with him to Rome to cook his sausages. All his statements about women have only one thing to say: motherhood." The Pope got a taste of such criticisms on his visit to the U.S. in 1979. Sister Theresa Kane, then president of the Sisters of Mercy of the Union, declared in his presence that the church should ordain women; John Paul remained unmoved. "The joke went around," says Suzanne Hiatt, an Episcopal priest, "that he had been told he should step on the ground and kiss the women...