With Malice Toward Nuns
by Maureen Dowd
WASHINGTON SO much for all the cozy hugs and soothing cold calls and fun selfies and humble gestures and talk of mercy, love, inclusion, equality and justice.
Pope Francis appears guilty of condoning that most base Vatican sport: bullying nuns.
The cool pope suddenly doesnt seem so cool, allowing Romes grand inquisitors to torque up the derogation this Mothers Day of the American sisters who have mothered so many even as an endless parade of ghoulish priests were shielded as they defiled vulnerable kids in their care.
Pope Benedicts Vatican was determined to rein in American nuns inspired by Vatican II, accusing them of pushing radical feminist themes and caring for the sick instead of parroting church teaching opposing contraception, gay relationships and the ordination of women.
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