The problem with killing children, or Thanks, sisters!
Fr. Philip N. Powell, OP on NCAN.
The Denver Post reports on an attempt by the National Coalition of American Nuns to sway Catholic voters to vote for “Culture of Death” candidates:
Opposing war and treating immigrants with compassion are included in a list of seven issues outlined by the group. Mary Ann Coyle and Anna Koop of Denver and Sallie Ann Watkins of Pueblo are the other Colorado nuns on the board.
The letter also states, "We encourage respect for the moral adulthood of women and will choose legislators who will recognize the right of women to make reproductive decisions and receive medical treatment according to the rights of privacy and conscience."
So, apparently the problem with war is not that children are killed; it’s that they aren’t killed by their mothers. Or is it that war tends to kill children publicly and the sisters think they should be killed privately. Or maybe it’s the whole “presence of a medical professional” thing that they think distinguishes kids unintentionally killed in a war zone by soldiers and bombs from kids intentionally killed in a nice, sterile abortion clinic by MD’s and moms?
And these sisters wonder why their congregations are dying. I don’t know any young women who are ready to waste their lives in a “catholic” religious order that defends the proposition that it is a moral good for a mother to kill her child. This is beyond sad; and it is truly despairing.
As has been mentioned before it is very good thing that these groups are spiritual mules in that they don't reproduce themselves. Fortunately there are many good groups with the opposite view and growing orders the Sisters of Life and the new Missionaries of the Gospel of Life.
Known as 
Christ
versus Antichrist
Culture of Life
versus Anticulture of Death
Sisters of Life
versus Antisisters of Death who are present in the world as the National Coalition of American Nuns-- deadly and dying out.
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After reading this, and with the looming nonsense spuriously linked to the Vigil of All Saints, it may be fitting to recall this line from Chesterton:
People would understand better the popular fury against the witches, if they remembered that the malice most commonly attributed to them was preventing the birth of children.
[GKC, The Everlasting Man CW2:254]
Looks like they've taken the letter down from their website.
I find it ironic that the same liberal nuns who have adopted the anti-life politics of the liberal Democratic Party are in deep financial trouble precisely because they can't support their retirees. They have no vocations.
Perhaps if they had taught in accordance with the Pope Paul's "Humane Vitae" against birth control, or Pope John Paul's "Evangelium Vitae",against abortion, then we wouldn't be closing Catholic schools, selling Churches to Mosques(Muslims believe in large families), or losing 75% of our youth to secularism.
Catholic families would have generously raised large families, and their faithful children would be attracted to their orders, for their fidelity to their original charisms.
Long live the Sisters of Life, the Missionaries of Charity, the Nashville Dominicans, the Missionaries of the Eternal Word,the Dominicans of Mary, Mother of the Eucharist,Priests for Life, and the Franciscan Friars of the Renewal!!
They are the hope for the future of the Catholic Church, and they are full of homeschoolers who come from larger families!
Leticia,
Long may they live indeed! But please don't forget those of us in the older orders who hold to the magisterium and often find ourselves on the outs with our more progressive brothers and sisters b/c of that loyalty. We need prayers too. And so do the progressives!
Fr. Philip
Please, if you want culture of death, go back to the Middle Ages. Back when your religion ruled the land.
Hoodlum!
How've you been?
Read any good books lately?
Pretty certain it wasn't history, but nice to here from you.
Catholicism ruled America in the Middle Ages?
Anti-theists tend to be historically illiterate. For example, which of the world's many religions has caused the most human death and suffering? Islam? Shintoism? Christianity? Nope. Marxism! And other forms of atheistic materialism like fascism and socialism. Just think: Stalin, Hitler, Mao, Pol Pot, et al. Not to mention the deaths of 1.3 million Americans every year at the hands of radical feminism.
Ah, peace-loving atheism...
Fr. Philip
This was an issue at the Denver Respect Life conference yesterday. Archbishop Chaput encouraged the attendees to write the nuns directly, since they obviously have no desire to listen to him.
Now, are these nuns still members of the Church? Haven't they automatically excommunicated themselves by their heretical stand?
If they are not excommunicated yet, then why doesn't the Vatican do so... immediately!!!
Speaking of the Sisters of Life, I'll be visiting them in 18 days for their "Come and See" retreat :) Prayers appreciated (for me and everyone there) :)
I'll see you there Mary!!! :-)