Here\u2019s the letter.<\/a><\/p>\nAnother commenter asked, \u201cWhy is the SSPX, who are faithful to Catholic doctrine\u2013albeit rather extremely so\u2013kicked out of the church, but the bishops feel that with the rebellious sisters they need to \u201ccontinue to dialogue\u201d?<\/p>\n
Another commenter today said, (and I paraphrase) \u201cFather, I\u2019m a Methodist about to swim the Tiber, but to tell you the truth, I love the Catholic Church, but the cranks and weirdoes among the Catholic priests and nuns seem must as bad as in our church. They sound like a bunch of liberal left wing Methodists wimmin ministers.\u201d<\/p>\n
I cannot disagree.<\/p>\n
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Deacon Greg gets all the scoops. He reports here on American Catholic nun Jeanne Grammick who has written a letter to El Presidente advocating abortion. I kid you not. The curious thing is, the other day I was ranting about the dissenting sisters and said just that: that they support abortion. I was told off […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":557,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11914","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"\n
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