The news that Rome is very unhappy with religious sisters (not nuns, please) in the USA is no surprise. What is surprising is the venom barely hidden in the attack. I think the boys in black may live to regret this move. Anyone with any nouse at all knows that the objects of their wrath are held in great respect and admiration by most Catholics - lay and ordained. The sisters are the ones who not only do the donkey, and often dirty, work but they have a no-nonsense approach to the world and to the silly men in black which is grounded in common sense.
Gone, long ago, are the dragons of my childhood. The sisters of today are tough women, not demanding the best seats in the house, who get on with their charism whatever it is. The silly men in black in Rome and their apparatchiks do not wipe that many bottoms I imagine and until they do they should sit back and let sister get on with the real work of Jesus.
I imagine that the silly men in black will be arriving in the UK soon. God help them.
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