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Gary Wills: Catholic sisters 'guilty as charged'

by Thomas C. Fox

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April 26, 2012

Gary Wills, writing in The New York Review of Books, says the U.S. sisters are guilty at charged.

The Vatican has issued a harsh statement claiming that American nuns do not follow their bishops’ thinking. That statement is profoundly true. Thank God, they don’t. Nuns have always had a different set of priorities from that of bishops. The bishops are interested in power. The nuns are interested in the powerless. Nuns have preserved Gospel values while bishops have been perverting them. The priests drive their own new cars, while nuns ride the bus (always in pairs). The priests specialize in arrogance, the nuns in humility.

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