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  1. Odin promised to rid the world of ice giants, and Jesus promised to rid the world of wicked people. I don't see many ice giants around.

    Just saying
  2. The pride of these sisters is very sad - hopefully they will recognize their true vocation.
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    • Well said! Women should be seen and not heard...Islam is quite good on that one point and to be commended as a leader that Christians should follow. There was a reason why all of Jesus' disciples were men, right? There is a reason why women can't be priests or bishops or cardinals or popes, right? The reason: Women lack the substanial commitment to mendacity to carry off the job on a long term basis.

      Pregnant and barefoot in the kitchen...the hoped for vocation of all women in the Catholic Church.
  3. The holy Spirit moves in mysterious ways not known to men. Rest assured there are many that stand prayerfully in solidarity with the good sisters. Wisdom and knowledge is taught from the pew to the pulpit and reflected back. Remember it is God's will be done not man's.
  4. Superstition reigns supreme.
  5. God can act through any person, man or woman. It's not for humans to judge, Catholic hierarchy included. Pay attention to the message of love and caring, not the interpretation of what "women's place" is.
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    • Yes...but they espoused "the belief that no one religion is superior to another"!
      Do you know how foolish that seems when the rest of the team is chanting "We're number one...we're number one!"

      Makes one wonder if they might actually be number two....
    • "Universal salvation," is a difficult concept for all religions. If you accept some form of it "anonymous Christianity," is one, it's harder for pastors to get people to attend services/Mass and donate. If you reject some form of "Universal Salvation," you believe God sentences completely innocent humans to everlasting damnation, through no fault of their own. Most people on earth have never even heard of Jesus Christ, they certainly cannot be blamed for not being Christian. Some people may get bad information about the one, true religion (whatever you believe that to be) and reject it for the wrong reasons.

      Throughout the Catholic Church's history, "limbo," has frequently been been the catch-all. For example, what about the prophets in the OT (Hebrew Scriptures)? None of them go attain salvation, because they had never been baptized, never taken Jesus Christ as their Lord and Savior. They were born long before he lived. So now you get into arguments about God "proleptically" judging someone. That allows our notion of God to retain some value of fairness.
    • continued from above.

      If you accept that the Christian God could have saved the OT prophets and those who followed them, it's not much of a leap to some form of "anonymous" Christianity.

      There are also real serious consequences for saying all the other religions are "going to hell." That's what Osama thought about all the non-Sunni Moslems in the Twin Towers. They were not going to attain salvation anyway, so their deaths really did not matter.
    • I'd be interested to hear if Bishop Merlino thinks Abraham, Moses, and others in the Judaeo/Christian tradition were kept out of heaven, because they were not baptized Roman Catholics/Christians.
  6. It's really very simple. I do not agree with many of the views of the Roman Catholic church. Therefore, I belong to a different religion that has views more in line with my own. However, if you want to claim to be Roman Catholic, you should be ready to abide by their rules and dogma. Otherwise, find a different religion or no religion. If the Sisters don't like Roman Catholic teaching, they are free to leave the church.
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