This CNN blog post details events on June 5th when
the Vatican reprimanded an American nun. According to the article, the Vatican
has been cracking down on free spirited American nuns for years, but why should
this nun be big news? This nun so happened to be one of the nation's leading
religious authorities, a fact which seems to have brought CNN analysts to the
conclusion that the Vatican may targeting her merely for her American
background. Nonetheless, they had a reason: she'd written a book about
Christian love in which she neglected to harp upon homosexuality and
masturbation. To read more go to: http://religion.blogs.cnn.com/2012/06/05/vatican-intensifying-crackdown-on-american-nuns/?hpt=hp_t3.
I think the whole direction about the Vatican
holding biased angst towards Americans seems a little childish. However, the
blog post was interesting to me because of the Vatican's reasons for the
reprimand. They only gave reasons in which they talked about what she hadn’t
done, not what she had done. I'm not a Catholic, rather a Methodist, but as a
Christian I see nothing wrong if she merely didn't talk about something. Even
if she didn't pull out the axe to chop off the heads of all of the homosexual
and perverted Americans out there, I don't see how they can reprimand an
American citizen for not saying something in a book published on American sols.
If she had been harsher, well America might be halved in size for all the not
so Christian people out there. In any case, Christianity is about forgiveness,
and this whole ordeal sends the wrong message to everyone about Christians,
because the Catholic Church is seen by many as the head of the whole of
Christianity. In any case, America is a very different land with much more
freedom than Italy or the Vatican. I’m glad I live in a country where people
are allowed to act as they wish to.
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