Is Cardinal O'Malley Holier than Jesus?

Cardinal O’Malley: ‘If I were founding a Church, I’d love to have women priests’

Well, what did Jesus know?

Here's the recent O'Malley interview on 60 minutes:

Hear the Screaming? It's the Nuns on the Bus!

They just knew that Pope Francis was going to:

• approve of contraception
• affirm homosexual "marriage"
• ordain women
• make celibacy optional
• approve of divorce 

It's such a surprise to find out he's (horrors!) actually Catholic!

Vatican reaffirms need for reform in LCWR

The Running Nun Tells Why LCWR Doesn't Represent Her!

Go, Sister, go! One of the running nuns keeps the pace in the 2011 Labor Day 5K.

Sr. Mary Rose Reddy, founder of the Running Nuns, could run circles around the silly nuns on the bus who would never dirty their hands doing the difficult work of Sr. Reddy's congregation. (Besides somebody has to hobnob with members of Congress and march for the wetlands.) Sr. Reddy is apparently sick of LCWR attacking the Vatican and pretending to represent her. But I'll let her speak for herself:

Sister Mary Rose Reddy “We Do Not Feel at All Represented by the LCWR” 

What did the Holy See actually say to the LCWR?

by Sister Mary Rose Reddy DMML:

Recently the Office of the Congregation of the Doctrine of Faith issued a statement entitled, Doctrinal Assessment of the Leadership Conference of Women Religious. (All quotations are taken directly from this 8 page document). Many people in the United States have mistakenly regarded this document as disparaging to women religious. Actually the contrary is true; the document praises the legitimate contributions of women religious over the years: “The Holy See acknowledges with gratitude the great contribution of women Religious to the Church in the United States as seen particularly in the many schools, hospitals, and institutions of support for the poor which have been founded and staffed by Religious over the years.”

At the same time as the Holy See praises these legitimate accomplishments it rightfully criticizes destructive aberrations in authentic religious life that have developed in and through the Leadership Conference of Women Religious (LCWR). (The LCWR was founded at the encouragement of the Vatican in 1956 to be the official representative body of women religious in the United States). Here are some of the LCWR errors which this document from the Vatican addresses:

1. There has been “a diminution of the fundamental Christological center and focus of religious consecration which leads, in turn, to a loss of a ‘constant and lively sense of the Church’ among some Religious.”

2. Speakers have been allowed to promote destructive teachings such as