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SISTER-L SPEAKS FOR ITSELF

This Rock Volume 7, Number 5   May 1996     Up Front By Karl Keating   Letters   Dragnet   SISTER HELL By TERRYE NEWKIRK   Sidebar Sister-L Speaks For Itself   Sister-L's Farewell By Margaret Susan Thompson   My Response To Being "Excommunicated" By Terrye Newkirk   I'LL LEAVE THE CHURCH IF… By KENNETH RAMAGE   True Story In Gentle Hands By Laura Stucky with Brian Kravec   Scripture Dei Verbum and the Synoptic Gospels By Bernard Orchard, O.B.S.   Classic Apologetics How History Is Miswritten By Herbert Thurston, S.J.   The Laity What is the Lay Apostolate? By Canon Francis J. Ripley    Subscribe    Permissions

". . . to my knowledge, the closest Mercies, Benedictines, or Franciscans 'of the bad kind' are in Bethlehem, Connecticut. . . ." [By "bad," the writer presumably means loyal to the magisterium. ]

"I loved the movie Sister Act. I did not find it demeaning in any way. . . I'm sure everyone has a 'Sister Mary Sunshine' who's an enneagram type 7. . . .Sure, the habits were a bit old-fashioned, but the situation of needing to respond to the problems of society is real, and the point is-the sisters did that!"

". . . the nuns I see do not tolerate any arbitrary male clerical assertion of authority."

"We do have much independence, autonomy, and support in what we do, though the threat from ecclesial authorities is always there."

"Ordination of women to the priesthood may be a way off, but there is no stopping the power of the Holy Spirit to empower our modern women, religious and lay, from 'changing the face of the earth.'"

[In response to Bishop Fabian Bruskewitz's extra-synodal legislation:] "Are we suddenly returning to the era of the Index Librorum Prohibitorum and the Syllabus of Errors?"

"After the events of the past year, the firing of Carmel McEnroe [sic; it's McEnroy], the dismissal of Bishop Gaillot in France, the appointment of and Opus Dei member to succeed [to] the Archdiocese of Oscar Romero, the investigation of Jeannine Grammick [sic ], only a few examples of the abuse of power by a morally and spiritually bankrupt elite, struggling to hold on to what little vestiges of control and power it can muster . . . God bless you, Call to Action."

"By now you have probably seen the text of the Bishop of Lincoln's inane and imperial edict. . . ."

"My guess is that . . . Rainbow Girls may be a gay rights group . . .?"

"The notion that Vatican-appointed officials of the institution somehow represent Christ in some direct way is astonishing to me. The bag lady on the street corner is a more authentic Vicar of Christ tha[n] some guy sitting around in fancy robes making pronouncements about sex. History has shown that neither bishops nor cardinals nor popes are the vicars of Christ."