The Vatican this week lashed out at a group of Catholic nuns in the United States, because this group of nuns has what the Vatican calls "serious doctrinal problems."
The group of nuns -- called the Leadership Conference of Women Religious -- has challenged Church teaching on homosexuality and the male-only priesthood, in addition to promoting "radical feminist themes incompatible with the Catholic faith," according to the Vatican.
We believe that the Vatican is correct in chastising this group of nuns.
After all, the celibacy of Catholic priests and the acceptance of only men as priests are traditions that date back to the founding of Christianity some 2,000 years ago.
For these nuns to try to change these Church traditions -- with no authority whatsoever to do so -- conveys an air of them being arrogant, nervy, and even sacrilegious toward the Catholic Church. These nuns need to "bite the bullet," so to speak.
If some nuns are not happy with traditional Catholic Church doctrine -- and the path that the Church is currently taking -- then they should give up their sisterhood and perhaps move on to another profession. If they want to continue to be nuns, they have a responsibility to keep their ideas for changes in the Catholic Church to themselves.
The fact is that being a spiritual nun requires an exceptional love, devotion, and support for the Catholic Church. Nuns, then, must not be critical of the Church or its modus operandi -- even if they believe that their ideas will be beneficial for the Church.
In the final analysis, nuns who support the Catholic Church and its traditions will be enhancing the Church and their own spiritual role in doing so, because they will, in effect, be empowering the Body of Christ.
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