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We feel the anguish of the Sisters. Here in the States it's well known that leadership hierarchy generally only listens to those with power and money and not staff because, well, why should they? I recall a Cardinal in my hometown who would come to a gathering and greet people in this way, and verbatim, "And you are? And you do? His response, "Clear my calendar for the day. He was not the kindly Shepherd of the Flock but more of a martinet of the Flock.
Where, oh where, was Christ?? According to statistics, in the s, there were , nuns in America. That number has slipped well below 47, I just can't see young American women rushing to become 'hand maidens' to priests and bishops. The church my Dad attend, is run entirely by an order of Polish nuns. True service in humility is the offering of our gifts to others, rather than using them for our own benefit. I rarely see a Catholic woman fully respected for what she has to offer - for her work, maybe, but not her intelligence, skills and dedication.
As a mother I gave up my career so that my gifts may "serve" my family. I am not a servant, however, and I raise my children to be helpful, respectful, intelligent and responsible.
I suggest that if adult relationships in the Church are missing this reciprocal respect and care for others' fulfilment as a person, then introspection is needed. The powerlessness of nuns is a problem for all women in the church. People tend not to respect those who don't show respect for themselves. Nuns are held up as an example of holiness when they are a far better example of women who have yet to claim their adulthood. When nuns disappear from the church, there will be some hope of women stepping up to claim their rightful role in the church community.
Your source for jobs, books, retreats, and much more. Faith News. Today, there are forty thousand, and their average age is almost eighty. Attrition has taken a particularly grim turn during the pandemic. While Pope Francis and his subordinates in the Curia tussle over the fine points of Vatican reform, a cohort of American Catholic nuns is dying.
Among them is Dianna Ortiz, who died last month, of cancer, at sixty-two. One of eight children born to a family in New Mexico, Ortiz joined the Ursulines in , taught kindergarten in Kentucky, and then went to teach in Guatemala.
In November, , she was abducted by armed men, raped, and tortured. But she survived, escaped, and eventually sought justice. She prevailed against American diplomats who claimed that she was fabricating her story; went on a hunger strike outside the White House, demonstrating to the American government how U. Gramajo returned to Guatemala; the plaintiffs never received the money. In , Ortiz founded Torture Abolition and Survivors Support Coalition International, and served for ten years as its executive director.
Becquart was born in Fontainebleau in ; earned a degree from business school; and worked in marketing before entering religious life, in Her training has balanced studies of theology and ecclesiology the latter at Boston College with outreach among working-class youth in their neighborhoods and in retreats for young people held at sea she is an adept skipper. But in the end, they left no space for autonomy. Then came an article in March that denounced the servitude of nuns who work for a pittance to cook and clean for clerics.
Scaraffia went a step further in February with a scathing account of the numerous cases of nuns being raped or abused by priests and bishops, or being forced to have an abortion or leave the church if they became pregnant as a result. A few days after the article was published, Pope Francis acknowledged the issue of widespread abuse against nuns for the first time.
But, so far, there has been little evidence, at least publicly, of steps being taken to address the issue. Scaraffia and her team never took salaries. It was a profound job. She was brought up a Catholic but stopped going to church when she started university.
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