Calling Maureen Dowd's Bluff

Kathryn Jean Lopez takes out Maureen Dowd recent attack on the Vatican in a National Review On Line article entitled: Sister Maureen Gets It Wrong The women religious who flourish do it because of submission . The title says it all. Follow the link to read the entire article but I would like to highlite a couple things she says so you can get the flavor of her article.

Taking on Dowd's claim that "Nuns were second-class citizens then and — 40 years after feminism utterly changed America — they still are.”: "I can’t speak for “the formidable Sister Hiltruda” Dowd had in grade school, but Dowd needs to meet some of the sisters I’ve been talking to lately, all over the country. Young women are willingly devoting their lives to the Church, with veils and all, in places like Birmingham, Ala., Alma, Mich., Nashville, Tenn., Washington, D.C., and New York City. It’s becoming common that orthodox orders report waiting lists, as they see themselves filled to capacity with young postulants and their overjoyed older sisters."

Responding to Dowd's attack on the upcoming Vatican ordered visitation: "Actually, it’s because, despite a renewal that is going on among women religious in orders that have focused like a laser on what their vocation is all about — a calling in this world that is beyond this world — many orders that once were the backbones of so many schools and other service institutions are literally dying. They are not recruiting, and they’ve long lost their charisms. And, as Ann Carey, author of Sisters in Crisis, has explained: 'Many sisters no longer work in apostolates related to the Church and no longer live or pray in community, and sometimes sisters even openly dissent from Church teaching on matters such as women’s ordination, homosexuality, centrality of the Eucharist, and the hierarchical nature of the Church.'”

& that is only 2 examples of the no-holds barred response she has. Follow the link above & read the rest of the article that shows how far off base Maureen dowd is.

Source: You said it, Sister