Whose newspaper is this? Oakland diocese paper sympathizes with dissident nuns.
6/18/12
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The following comes from a June 11 story in the Oakland diocese paper, the Catholic Voice. Nowhere in the story was there an explanation of the Vatican position.
They carried handmade posters with names and, sometime, faces, on them. They included the famous — Sisters Dorothy Kazel, Ita Ford and Maura Clarke, who, with lay missionary Jean Donovan, were killed in El Salvador in 1980, and Sister Dorothy Stang, killed in Brazil in 2005.
They carried posters with the names of lesser-known, but equally beloved, sisters who taught third grade, catechism, or had offered kind words that helped through trying times.
For some, like, Jim O’Donnell of Moraga, who cradled a framed portrait of his sister, Sister Anthony Edward in her habit, it was intensely personal.
About 200 people gathered on the sidewalk on the Harrison Street side of the Cathedral of Christ the Light in Oakland, and on the steps on May 29, in one of dozens of such demonstrations of support nationwide for religious sisters in the wake of the results of a Vatican assessment of the Leadership Conference of Women Religious.
The conference is a Maryland-based national umbrella group of about 1,500 leaders of U.S. women’s communities as members, representing about 80 percent of the country’s 57,000 women religious.
More than a dozen religious sisters, as well as a few priests, were among the group that gathered to pray, sing, listen and say thank you to religious sisters.
Christine Haider-Winnett, a student at the Pacific School of Religion in Berkeley, said she was “overwhelmed” by the turnout. She had listed the event at the Nun Justice Project website, www.nunjustice.org, and some parishes included information about it in bulletins.
“I’m really grateful,” she said, recalling the numerous phone calls she had received over the three weeks between the announcement of the vigil and its taking place. “The amount of energy people have around nuns just blows me away….”
As traffic moved by on Harrison Street during the commute time, drivers honked their horns and waved at the group. Signs reading “Support Our Sisters” and “We are all nuns” lined the sidewalk. There was particular interest in a sign that read, “Which shoes walk with the poor?” Two images — one of $650 red “Papal Pradas” and a pair of black “Nun shoes” — illustrated the point….
What a farce this was, the Vatican is trying to reel in a group of dissident nuns, not the majority of the nuns in the church. How people lie. This guy holding his habited sister’s portrait is so phony, i’m certain the Vatican isn’t concerned about the habited nuns, there no problem. I bet that portrait was for effect, i bet she dumped that habit years ago. Bishop Cordileone who was supposed to be a sign of hope for the diocese has done nothing, his Cathedral bookstore is full of dissenters books, he did nothing about a pro-abort speaker at St. Mary’s College of Moraga in his diocese and even wrote a forward for a dissenting Dignity priest’s book on homosexuality. He also hasn’t expanded or given the Latin Mass a more prominent appearance in the diocese or given them their own parish. He’s been a disappointment, he has let the same old stuff continue.
Jim O’Donnell’s sister died in August 1981 and is buried in the sisters’ section of Holy Sepulchre Cemetery in Hayward, California. Her grave marker has both her religious and secular names (“Sister Anthony Edward” and “Sister Betty Anne”). Thus, his picture of her in habit dates from 1981 or (more likely) before.