Nun of the above

So I read in the newspaper (http://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/02/us/02nuns.html?_r=1) that American nuns may be coming under a bit of scrutiny by the Vatican. It seems that the folks in Rome may feel that American nuns are being a bit too modern, too forward, too non-traditional…

Now, let’s put this in perspective, shall we? While all this is going on, the Church is still dealing with the fallout of the child abuse scandals of the ‘90s. And, then there were all those damning revelations about nuns AND monks AND priests running horrific orphanage-sweatshops in Ireland. Then, of course, there was that embarrassing affair last year when the Pope invited members of a schismatic sect, The Society of Pius X, back into the Church . . . without, apparently, bothering to check on the little fact that the Society was chock-o-block full of Holocaust deniers.

Oh, and, then outside the Church, the world bears its usual cross of war, famine, disease, despotism, murder, rape, pillage, poverty, and, well, you know, pretty much everything the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse can dish out in a single serving, and which the Church could actually be trying to work against.

And, in the face of all this… all these horrors and terrors and scandals and shames . . . the Church responds by launching a war … against nuns.

Groovy.

Tune in next week, ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls, children of all ages…when the Holy Father will announce papal bans …

Against warm fuzzy puppies, Teddy Bears, kittens with mittens, girls in white dresses with blue satin sashes, and, of course, Saint Francis of A-freaking-ssisi…