{"id":3559,"date":"2009-10-24T22:59:44","date_gmt":"2009-10-24T22:59:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/deaconsbench\/2009\/10\/maureen-dowd-on-the-nuns-story.html"},"modified":"2009-10-24T22:59:44","modified_gmt":"2009-10-24T22:59:44","slug":"maureen-dowd-on-the-nuns-story","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/deaconsbench\/2009\/10\/maureen-dowd-on-the-nuns-story.html","title":{"rendered":"Maureen Dowd on “The Nuns’ Story”"},"content":{"rendered":"

I’m sure this will be getting plenty of play around the blogosphere over the next few days — that sound you hear in the distance is William Donohue, barking out another angry press release — but here’s a first look at what Maureen Dowd has to say about nuns, the church, the pope and anything else Catholic that pops into her brain<\/a>: <\/p>\n

\nIn 2004, the cardinal who would become Pope Benedict XVI wrote a Vatican document urging women to be submissive partners, resisting any adversarial roles with men and cultivating “feminine values” like “listening, welcoming, humility, faithfulness, praise and waiting.” <\/p><\/blockquote>\n

\nNuns need to be even more sepia-toned for the \u00fcber-conservative pope, who was christened “God’s Rottweiler” for his enforcement of orthodoxy. Once a conscripted member of the Hitler Youth, Benedict pardoned a schismatic bishop who claimed that there was no Nazi gas chamber. He also argued on a trip to Africa that distributing condoms could make the AIDS crisis worse.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Well, you get the idea.  There’s much more at the link.<\/a> <\/p>\n

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