For those of you who're more used to my usual mild tone, I apologize in advance... but I am seriously ticked off.
From the Indispensable LifeSiteNews:
HINSDALE, Illinois, October 23, 2009 (LifeSiteNews.com) - A Dominican nun has been seen frequenting an abortion facility in Hinsdale, Illinois recently - but not, as one might expect, to pray for an end to abortion or to counsel women seeking abortions, but to volunteer as a clinic escort.
Local pro-life activists say that they recognized the escort at the ACU Health Center as Sr. Donna Quinn, a nun outspokenly in favor of legalized abortion, after seeing her photo in a Chicago Tribune article.
This woman is corrupt. Let's call a spade a spade. She may've slid into this corruption through "good intentions" (Hell need not go to Menards or Builder's Squarem for paving stones for its inroads, y'know), but she's a hypocrite--in the worst sense of the word, and of the highest order. This woman contributes to the torture and death of unborn children, and still cravenly clings to the title, not only of "Catholic" (which is a big enough lie), but of "Catholic religious sister".
I see. So, just as the modern world demands that we allow a Greenpeace member to carve their initials into living beached whales with dull, rusty knives while still demanding Greenpeace membership rights... just as the modern world demands that someone who boils kittens alive for sheer enjoyment can still be a card-carrying member of PETA... just so, does the world demand that the Catholic Church not reject this wayward woman and her demonic volunteer duties. I see.
At least the members of the Culture of Death are consistent... right?
So... at least I can take consolation in the fact that her religious superior will, at very least, denounce her and expel her from the order, right?
Sr. Patricia Mulcahey, OP, Quinn's Prioress at the Sinsinawa Dominican community, said in an email response to LSN that the nun sees her volunteer activity as "accompanying women who are verbally abused by protestors. Her stance is that if the protestors were not abusive, she would not be there."
Though Sr. Mulcahey claimed that her sisters "support the teachings of the Catholic Church," she declined to comment on Quinn's public protest of Catholic Church teaching.
Wow.
Seriously... give me a good, honest atheist and/or relativist, any day of the week. But betrayal--especially if that betrayal involves a grandmotherly smile as she walks the women past the mean and cruel pro-lifers, a kindly pat on the shoulder as she tells the woman to "be a brave girl" as she submits her body to violation and her child to dismemberment, and a sweet and humble suggestion to drink some hot Linden tea if she has any cramps afterward--makes me want to spit rusty nails.
I tremble for this woman on Judgment Day. But in the meantime, might I offer my own (perhaps isolated) plea that she physically GET THE **** OUT OF THE CATHOLIC CHURCH, so that her body at least matches her soul which abandoned the Church long ago??
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Even in the field of the Lords, there are weeds among the wheat. But unlike plants, we are capable of fraternal correction as the Lord recommended. And expulsion if the sibling does not repent.
Perhaps this sister is a little slow on the uptake or sees not her wrongdoing.
So, we pray for the sister and show her the scandal and confusion that she is causing. We ask her to stop. We go to her superiors and her superiors' superior. Then maybe ask her to get the **** out until she is ready to live like a daughter of God. But we need to administer discipline progressively and give her a chance, if that has not been done before. Maybe she just needs attention.
Given the details in the (linked) story, I don't think she can plead ignorance, on this one:
Amy Keane, a pro-life witness for 11 years, says Quinn has acted as escort for "six years, at least." Keane described one incident in which Quinn began shouting at the pro-lifers as they spoke to a woman about to enter the abortion facility.
"[Quinn] was so angry, and burst out very loudly so everyone could hear: 'Look at these men, telling these women what to do with their bodies!'" said Keane. "She was so angry, that it really took all of us aback." Keane says that the group was peaceful, and that the men present were not among those engaging the woman.
"For those of us who are Catholic, to have a member of a religious order so blatantly - it is so disheartening. It really is," said Keane. "She's participating actively in abortion. That is what is so disturbing for us."
I *will* admit one other possibility: she might be clinically insane. But I doubt it; she couldn't manage her volunteerism so consistently, and agitate for her secular causes so faithfully, if she were mad.
In other words: she's already been warned, and her superiors have already been warned, and the bishops who oversee her (with some notable and growing exceptions, though not in her Archdiocese) have proven, again and again, that they have no taste for a confrontation with their liberal underlings, and are not inclined to chastise or punish at need. That is a terrible scandal, in and of itself... and our esteemed host has commented on it, many times. Despite some fine (but scattered) efforts, only a handful of old--and a growing number of new--bishops are willing to use their shepherds' staves to correct their wayward sheep.
I know all I have to do is open my mouth to annoy you, but I must say you sometimes worry me.
You're angry all the time.
This is is an honest question: what good is your religion if all it ever does is make you angry?
ALL THE TIME...
I assume it provides more. I'm not stupid, and I don't mean to insult you. I'm not just getting it.
Ah the Sinsinawa's. I was (mis)educated by them. No real surprise that everyone I know from school is an atheist. I was once kicked out of a theology class for disagreeing with a nun that women should be priests (her position was that with her 2 PhD's she was smarter than most priests).
Sr. Donna Quinn is playing an interesting game here. The motherhouse is in one diocese (Madison WI) Donna Quinn lives and causes small mischief in another (Chicago) and I believe that she is doing the clinic escorting in a third (Joliet). I think that means that instead of three bishops dealing with this... they are all just letting it slide thinking that it is someone else's problem.
One would hope that they could coordinate to deal with this... but since she has the protection and support of her prioress that could be a challenge.
It's a shame really. Much of my family was educated by the Sinsinawa's and it was nice to attend the same school as my mother. I can't hope that my children would follow my footsteps - because I wouldn''t ever want to support the Sinsinawa's in any way.
I could answer, John, but first, I have to ask:
Are you somehow under the impression that I'm angry all the time?
John I can't speak for Paladin, but his religion doesn't make him angry. To paraphrase Hank Hill, he doesn't have an anger problem, he has an idiot problem.
"Are you somehow under the impression that I'm angry all the time?"
Yes.
Of course I could be wrong. I don't know you. But yes, you sound angry all the time.
John wrote:
Of course I could be wrong. I don't know you. But yes, you sound angry all the time.
You do realize, don't you, that you're assuming a great deal?
1) You assume that I blog about everything in my life. (Nowhere near true.)
2) You (somehow, mysteriously) read anger into all of my blog posts. Click on the "paladin" label under this entry, and you can find all my posts. Just in the first 10, I see a happy note about the Duggars' new baby (in utero, currently), a thrilled note about the movie "Butterfly Circus", a civil and friendly entry on relativism (whose protagonist, the good Mr. Schwartz, was a model of civility in his replies), and a cheerful list of recommended Christian/Catholic recording artists. In short: which blog were you reading, again?
3) You assume, with logic that escapes me, that when I *am* angry, my "religion" somehow "made" me angry. (Do you approach shopkeepers who are outraged by shoplifters, and ask them what use proprietorship is, if it only makes them angry?) You also don't think much about any alternate causes.
In short, VSO's answer is as good a way to put it as I could produce, at the moment. :)
But honestly... if you're in earnest, please know that most of my life is joyful. Honest. Do remember that you're getting a very artificial slice of my life's thoughts... much as you'd get an artificial slice of a policeman's thoughts if you listened only to his comments over a police radio scanner. You might say, "Don't you talk about anything but crimes, tragedies, etc.?" Same principle.
If a science teacher at a secular school where my daughter attended was teaching creationism/intelligent design alongside evolution I'd be pretty pissed off too.
Or, in the examples you gave, such as the greenpeace activist carving his name into whales.
I hear ya, buddy.
But hell DID go shopping at Menard's - I saw her! Ha!
http://cheekypinkgirl.blogspot.com/2009/09/vatican-orders-religious-sisters-to.html
As someone who lives across the river from Sinsinawa, none of this surprizes me. Martha Mary's experiences didn't either.
PS Palidan, what anger on your part?????
I live right down the street (about two miles) from the motherhouse of the Springfield (Ill.) Dominicans, and the first thought that came to my mind when I read the lede of this story was "Oh my gosh, I hope she's not one of OURS!"
The Springfield OPs are on the liberal side too, very much into peace, justice and environmentalism; however, they don't seem to be quite as far gone off the leftist/feminist deep end as the Sinsinawa OPs. The older Sisters, at least, still wear their habits in public.
Still, it is absolutely disgusting, not to mention tragic, that ANY professed religious would be doing something like this AND that her superior would back her up.
Well, if St. Dominic could stem the tide of Albigensian heresy and St. Catherine of Siena could talk the pope into going back to Rome from Avignon after all those years, maybe they can pray their spiritual daughters back into the fold too.
Something else comes to mind... many years ago my mom and I were talking about the kind of person we would most "love to hate" -- the person who would represent everything that drives us most nuts.
My mom said that for her it would be a cigar smoking neo-Nazi. (She despises cigar smoke and used to say the only thing that she would have divorced my dad over would be if he took up cigar smoking, which he thankfully never did.)
I said for me, it would be a lesbian ex-nun who ran an abortion clinic.
Well, it seems that Sr. Donna is the first real life person to have fulfilled, at least in part, two of my three criteria (she's not an "ex" nun, and she doesn't actually RUN the clinic; and I'm not even going to speculate on the first criteria.)
So I can understand completely why someone like her makes Paladin want to "spit rusty nails" and tell her to "get the (bleep) out of the Catholic Church."
However, seems to me that precisely BECAUSE she comes closest to being the person I always thought I'd most love to "hate," I have a special obligation to pray for her ... if I make it to confession today, I'll add that to my penance :-)
IIRC, monks and nuns take a vow of obedience. Who do they swear to obey, the pope, the local bishop, or their abbot / abbess?
Okay, Paladin said he is ticked off. So, angry. It's not religion that makes him angry, it's hypocracy. That said, John, have breakfast with him. Maybe he's not always angry, only when he blogs about what makes him angry.
Ori, obedience is a little like the military. Each is required to obey the one immediately above in authority. IF THAT one is disobedient to the law, then one is to go over the head of that him/her. We are not permitted to cry "obedience" when we know the one who is allowing things is wrong as well. Fortunately, when in doubt, we have the CCC.
On another note, I have been to abortion facilities in prayerful and peaceful 'protest'. There is a man who is aggressive. I need to talk with him about it. We do need to be careful that we do not harrass women going in. They are not the enemy, and we do need to remember to love.
Charlotte wrote:
But hell DID go shopping at Menard's - I saw her! Ha!
:) I stand corrected. Hell has apparently felt the economic pinch, as well, and availed itself of Menards' fine prices for construction materials. I guess.
Yeeks! Thanks, Charlotte... I'm not angry anymore; now, I'm just nauseous and weirded out! John will thank you for calming the raging fires in me, I'm sure. ;)
I like this woman. Sounds like a good person to me. It just goes to show that even within the church, there are people who can rationally think.
(*sigh*) And to our left, ladies and gentlemen, we have an exquisitely pure-bred specimen of Trollicus Interneticus Banalus... please don't feed him! His diet is very specialized (and best left to speculation)...
Very sad. The result of moral relativism. I wonder why Sr Donna even wants to stay in the Church and in her order when she evidently doesn't believe in what the Church teaches.
In the Gospel Jesus told us what to do in such cases: "if they won't listen to the Church..." don't keep them in the community.
Seriously... give me a good, honest atheist and/or relativist, any day of the week. But betrayal--especially if that betrayal involves a grandmotherly smile as she walks the women past the mean and cruel pro-lifers, a kindly pat on the shoulder as she tells the woman to "be a brave girl" as she submits her body to violation and her child to dismemberment....?
Thanks Nice Post
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