She’s At It Again: Ms. Marin at The Ministry of Media Manipulation
Carol Marin thinks (out loud in a poorly edited article) that the Vatican may be out to get Nuns who are declining to wear the habit and working “in higher-paying jobs (lawyer, doctor, professor) in the secular world, keeping only a small stipend and sending the bulk of their earnings to the motherhouse to support elderly sisters.” It sounds very unlikely, but Marin has written it, so be it.
Marin’s investigation consisted of reading the New York Times and calling a few nuns, who also seem very unlikely to be under any type of investigation.
As one commenter put it:
“Well, no, they are being investigated because quite a few nuns today are heretical in their beliefs. For instance, no small number hold to the ideas that that Eastern mysticism can be integrated with Catholic spirituality.”
The general comments seem much more developed intellectually than the article itself. My limited experience watching the Vatican gives me the sense that the Holy See is much more concerned with a loss of Catholicism within Holy Orders than some intramural squabble over living in community. It is quite telling that 9/10 of the commenters have a more thorough understanding of this issue than the most ubiquitous and most ill-informed person in Chicago media.
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John Powers is the President of the Chicago Daily Observer
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Hello,
Mr. Powers, I was unable to find an email address for you but wanted to let you know I posted a blog entry on that very article earlier today. It irritated me. But I also felt it was a double embarrassment – both for her (a shoddy piece of so-called \’journalism\’) and for the editor who approved it.
I just returned to the Catholic Church after being away for 25 years. I have been stunned by the amount of \"Catholics\" who obviously hold the Magisterium in such disdain; and yet believe it is up to the Vatican to change for <i>them.</i> Marin is no exception. My response is this: If you don\’t like it, leave. Seriously. There are hundreds of churches available and one could very easily find a church that met certain criteria as ordination of women (Methodists), active gays (The Metropolitan Community Church), abortion, and birth control (Unitarians, The Unity Church). The inclusion of celibacy, though, threw me. (Did she mean the nuns were for celibacy? Or for ditching it?)
You can read my entry by clicking the website link. I occasionally slam these types of outrageously biased (and erroneous) articles when I find them.
Thanks Mary,
Click Here for Mary’s full post
http://catholicprodigaldaughter.blogspot.com/2009/07/carol-marin-youre-wrong.html
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