Image: From iverifytherecall.com, the School Sisters of Notre Dame, based in Elm Grove, Wis., also signed the petition. View this particular recall form here.
From Breitbart.com:
As the Catholic Church takes action to counter the left-wing drift of American nuns, Breitbart.com has learned that hundreds of nuns are involved in the left's campaign to recall Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker (R)--in favor of pro-choice Democratic challengers.Read the rest here.
The nuns who have circulated and signed petitions include sisters from convents and other Catholic institutions across the state.
Over 100 signatures, for example, all of female voters, as verified through iverifytherecall.com, list the same address as a Dominican institution in Sinsinawa, WI, in the southwestern portion of the state. Representatives of that organization could not be reached for comment.
One Catholic official at a school with a large number of signatories stressed that Catholic organizations advocate for the poor and downtrodden, but do not take political positions, and that what their individual members do is up to them alone.
Though many Catholic voters support Walker, and roughly 40% of Wisconsin Republican primary voters are Catholic, there is some Catholic opposition to Walker's collective bargaining reforms among those partial to the "social justice" movement within the Catholic Church. Democrats are hoping to tap into that opposition.
Walker is Catholic, as is his most likely Democratic challenger, former congressman and former Milwaukee mayor Tom Barrett, who has been criticized for opposing the ban on federal funding for abortion. Other Democratic candidates--Kathleen Falk, Doug LaFollette, and Kathleen Vinehout--appear to be pro-choice.
Couple items of comment... Breitbart linked to the Badger Catholic (the Barrett pro-choice item)! And Walker isn't Catholic -- he is the son of a Baptist preacher and attends a Protestant church. Also, Archbishop Weakland signed the recall petition, so it's not too much of a surprise to learn that Wisconsin nuns did so as well. As Matt pointed out earlier this week, the Catholic country club has been open for quite a while.
3 comments:
As I said elsewhere, I have to wonder if some of those signatures were by the elderly nuns who weren't told what they were actually signing. I wouldn't put it past the Dems to do something like that in cahoots with the pr-abort leadership there @ Sinsinawa. Sinsinawa, home of the abortion mill escort, Sr. Donna, who did it with the full approval of the leadership.
My aunt was an SSND. At her funeral luncheon, held in the convent, the "priest" who was the chaplain there at the time saw my 7 daughters and remarked that 'someday, one of you could be a priest.'
The girls (and my wife) broke out in gales of laughter.
He's lucky I wasn't present at the time, or I might have told the old joke that ends with God saying "Not in MY lifetime...."
So yes, they probably DID know what they were signing, sad to say.
I'm related to one of those nuns that signed. She is very elderly. Most of them are at that address. I have my doubts.....
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