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Showing posts with label Nuns on the Bus. Show all posts
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Nuns on the Bus headed toward none
Maybe the investigation should have been on "Leadership" rather than "Religious".
Fanatic Friday: Nuns on the Bus edition
Well Mrs. Badger failed to send us something. Therefore due to the overwhelming bias against men named Avett I have selected a classic Alperformance - and oddly enough Tom Snyder seems like the weirder of the two.
Nuns on the Bus by the numbers
Catholic League president Bill Donohue comments as follows:continue at Catholic League
Media coverage of both the “Fortnight for Freedom” events sponsored by the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB), and the competing “Nuns on the Bus” campaign, reveal interesting results.
A total of 141 dioceses, involving tens of thousands of Catholics, participated in the USCCB events; it ended with a crowd of 5,000 at the Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception on July 4. Although Bill Moyers wrote that “a bus filled with nuns” participated in the “Nuns on the Bus” campaign, in actual fact a total of two nuns made the entire bus trip; there were never more than six at any one time on the bus. No matter, CNN did eight stories on the nuns, and none on the bishops; MSNBC did six on the nuns, and one on the bishops; and CBS News did two on the nuns and none on the bishops.
The nuns were helped by a media advisor for Faith in Public Life. As I pointed out in my news release of June 18, the group is funded by atheist billionaire George Soros; its Catholic Program Director is John Gehring, a left-wing operative who sought to manipulate the media against the USCCB events. Leading the nuns was a registered Washington lobbyist, Sr. Simone Campbell of Network. This group’s founder, Sr. Marjorie Tuite, was threatened with expulsion in the 1980s for her pro-abortion work. Today, Network employs nine people, three of whom are nuns.
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NETWORK Nuns roundup
A few thoughts. If pro-life nuns, which these are not, protested anti-life legislation, do you think anybody in the media would cover it? On the other hand, some of the media coverage has been pretty balanced, some even questioning the credibility of the nuns on economic matters. Also, check out this image put out by NETWORK.
How can they at one time hate habits but love them when they find them to politically beneficial?
Voces de la Frontera(pro-abortion, pro-gay marriage) join with "Nuns on the bus" on the picket line: https://www.facebook.com/
CBSNews: Network Nuns in Iowa
MJS: Miner: The Nuns are Here! The Nuns are Here!
NETWORK Nuns in Chicago
Laetificat
Colbert even interviewed Campbell("people used to be intimidated by those habits").
Sr. Campbell boasts of 400 showing up for her rally in South Bend(all Notre Dame professors?)... For comparison, last night's Rosary Rally at the Capitol brought in 4-500... :)
Voces de la Frontera(pro-abortion, pro-gay marriage) join with "Nuns on the bus" on the picket line: https://www.facebook.com/
CBSNews: Network Nuns in Iowa
MJS: Miner: The Nuns are Here! The Nuns are Here!
NETWORK Nuns in Chicago
Laetificat
Colbert even interviewed Campbell("people used to be intimidated by those habits").
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Sr. Campbell boasts of 400 showing up for her rally in South Bend(all Notre Dame professors?)... For comparison, last night's Rosary Rally at the Capitol brought in 4-500... :)
Bp. Morlino on EWTN's World Over tonight, critiques Nuns On The Bus, video preview
Speaking of Bishop Morlino....
via FatherZ(more over there)
In the video, Bishop Morlino says:
via FatherZ(more over there)
In the video, Bishop Morlino says:
“Congressman Ryan has made his prudential judgment about how best to serve the long term needs of the poor. He has done that in accord with Catholic principles. I don’t have to approve his decision, or his budget or anything else. What I do approve of is that he is a responsible Catholic layman who understands his mission and carries it out very responsibly. I feel very strongly about that. The details of his solution are not mine to approve or disapprove. That’s not my field.[If only all bishops understood the proper roll of the laity] So, I would think that the religious sisters, though, should concentrate on giving that witness of holiness of all of the wonderful works that they do rather than busing around for political issues. Because, when anything happens like that, if I were to come out in a very political way, I would probably win more followers for the opposition. And, there are many Catholics who feel that very way about the sisters. They really don’t like this. They feel that, their expectation from the sisters is really not this kind of leadership.”
LaetificatMadison: Chasing the NETWORK Nuns on the Bus
Read the whole thing at Laetificat.
A few excerpts:
We were approaching Janesville when we saw them! Jeanne happens to be the aunt of Matt of Badger Catholic blog, and she excitedly called and left him a voicemail that we were right behind the Nuns on the Bus!True story, I got several messages but I was in training. I talked to Jeanne yesterday and told her it was like listening to storm chasers.
Sister Rosalia Bauer, habit-less like the NETWORK sisters but totally pro-life (Jeanne knows her) and disagreeing with them, stood up on a coffee table and was swarmed by reporters wanting to talk to her. “You disagree with what they’re doing?” asked a Milwaukee TV reporter. “I certainly do, and I’m embarrassed that my fellow religious sisters are doing this,” she replied.
I asked, because I really couldn’t figure out what [Sr Campbell] meant, what she meant when she said recently that she feels like she would get a rash if she described her social justice work as being pro-life. She didn’t comment on that.
On her way back to the bus, I asked Sr Simone whether she supported the Fortnight for Freedom. She said something about it being complicated. I asked if she opposed the HHS contraceptive mandate. It’s complicated, she said. NETWORK supported passage of the Affordable Care act, and praised the Obama Administrations for its completely inadequate “conscience accommodations,” and as far as I know have not expressed any concern since for religious freedom issues the legislation raises.Check out the rest there.
BusNuns: "We just had a very lovely conversation with Congressman Ryan's staff, we were well-received"
While Janesville marked just a brief stop on the bus tour, it was an especially significant one for the sisters, who have been traveling the country spreading their message.
After speaking out in other states about the Ryan budget, they took their concerns directly to his office.
The group was joined by Ryan's challenger in the upcoming election, Democrat Rob Zerban.
"A visit by a bus full of nuns is very telling about how people feel about Paul Ryan's budget and that they feel it's very wrong-minded," Zerban said.
But not everyone there agreed with the nuns' cause. The Catholic Church has criticized them, and a few other sisters showed up to support Ryan, creating a sisters showdown of sorts.
"You disagree with what they're doing?" Wainscott asked
"I certainly do, and I'm embarrassed that my fellow religious sisters are doing this," Sister Rosalia Bauer said.
But in the end, the Nuns on the Bus did what they came to do: They delivered their message.
"We just had a very lovely conversation with Congressman Ryan's staff, we were well-received," Campbell said.
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